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

Subject: [OM] Re: E-3 specs - specifically weight.
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:21:46 +1000
All of which reminds us just how locked into zooms we are these days.
There is of course the Leica 25mm 1.4.
That doesn't seem to have caused much of a ripple.
Andrew Fildes
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On 21/10/2007, at 7:52 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> 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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