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[OM] Re: E-3 specs - specifically weight.

Subject: [OM] Re: E-3 specs - specifically weight.
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:52:28 -0400
The DZ 50/2 macro is a bit lighter than its Zuiko 50/2 macro cousin (300 
vs 320g) despite having a couple extra elements.  But I'm sure what Oly 
would prefer that we compare would be the Zuiko 90/2 at 550g as the 
nearest comparable focal length given the 2X crop factor.

But with that sort of thinking consider the lenses that are missing:
   4mm f/2.8 fisheye
   8mm f/3.5 fisheye
   9mm f/3.5
  10.5mm f/2
  10.5mm f/3.5
  12mm f/2
  12mm f/2.8
  12mm f/3.5 shift
  14mm f/2
  14mm f/2.8
  14mm f/3.5
  17mm f/2
  17mm f/2.8
  17mm f/2.8 shift
  20mm f/2
  25mm f/1.2
  25mm f/1.4
  25mm f/1.8
  25mm f/2 macro
  25mm f/3.5 macro
  27.5mm f/1.2
  42.5mm f/2
  50mm f/2.8
That's enough.  There are a lot more.

Chuck Norcutt

Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
> Khen Lim wrote:
>  
> ----
>> As for the 4:3 advantages of being lighter and compact,
>> there are points I like to make here. On paper these advantages 
>> are obvious but in reality, it does look like they might not have
>> delivered as much of these.
> -----
>  
> Although I understand most physical limitations, I still have a hard
> time understanding why the DZuikos are so much larger than the
> OM-zuikos, the 35 and 50mm macro's being the exeptions here. In my
> physics book a 50mm/2 for 4/3 format could be made smaller than a 50mm/2
> for 35mm film format. Could you or anyone else please elaborate on that?
> I can understand that the zooms are larger than fixed foacl length
> lenses, but they seem quite bulky to me, while the OM lenses really were
> small.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Wiliam Wagenaar
> 
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