Hi George and others
while slowly recovering from a terrible winter flu I can't help but comment on
the barrel distortion ( http://www.whitneygallery.com/olympus/kbs.html )
of this lens.
I don't know if I'm oversensitive or not, but this totally ruins an otherwise
excellent image, IMO it renders it almost unusable. All this talk of 4.2 or 3.6
or whatever is relatively meaningless IMO. A lot of other factors also count,
distortion being one of them, vignetting another major one.
I thought my 35-70/3.5-4.5 was bad at this but it actually seems better than
the 35-80/2.8.
And, oh yes, I've seen at least one zoom with fantastic flare control and
characterictics, the (sorry, not a Zuiko) Pentax 28-70/4 AF. I reckon it's
better in this department than my 35/2.0, which in itself is pretty good. Can't
compete with sharpness, though.
back to sleep,
cheers
Ulf Westerberg
Nature- and Travel Photography at www.start.at/westerberg
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