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Subject: [OM] lipstick on a pig?
From: "William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:04:29 -0700
Now that I have a competent dSLR (E-500), two lenses, and a flash, I've
started looking for other lenses. I love wide angles, so I looked at the
Olympus 7-14mm lens for this camera.

Do you want to know what it costs? Do you really want to know? It's $1640.

No, that leading 1 isn't a typo. It really costs that much.

Olympus claims this lens has the world's first molded-aspheric element using
ED glass. That's great. But it's a lens for a
not-really-professional-but-wanting-to-look-like-one camera, whose sensor is
1/4 the area of a frame of 35mm film. Shouldn't it cost a lot _less_ than a
comparable 35mm lens?

I checked Adorama's listing for Canon digital-specific lenses for their
APS-C sensor cameras. The comparable lens, a 10-22mm zoom, is $690. Not
$1690 -- $690. The closest 35mm lens is the Canon 16-35mm, for $1400.

I'm starting to think I made a really, really big mistake. Oh, well...



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