As Tom Scales now has an 18 mm for sale, I'd just like to inform you that
the Zuiko 18 mm got the #1 spot in a test in the German Color Foto magazine
in '89, beating among others 2 Zeiss lenses and a Nikon. Especially the
edge sharpness and contrast at F3.5 was better. Leitz's 19mm/2,8 had a bit
better center sharpness at F5.6, but the Zuiko had better contrast values.
So even if this lens is very expensive, it certainly delivers what you'd
expect from a super wideangle.
20 and 21 mm lenses were also tested, among them Zuiko's 21/2, which did
not do quite so well. Especially edge performances were much inferior to
those of the 18 mm.
Lars
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