What about this one at F2.8?
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/ep1/17/foto04.jpg
C.H.Ling
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From: "Dawid Loubser"
> Sure, but I am also still of the opinion that it takes an
> exceptionally crap
> lens to produce a rendering like this at f/6.3! (whether it can, and/
> or should have, been
> corrected in camera firmware or not). You are already almost a stop
> below
> the aperture at which the 25-year-old latest version OM Zuiko 50mm f/
> 1.4 (sn>1,1m)
> lens actually becomes diffraction-limited, and offers an otherwise
> near-flawless
> image rendition of the highest standard.
>
> Now we have 25 years of optical design, plus a two stops slower 35mm
> equivalent lens,
> in which the optical designers had the freedom of the shortest flange-
> to-sensor distance
> yet, and look at this - a lens which should, by all accounts, excel in
> every way. There
> is absolutely no excuse for this, not even at f/2.8, so I really hope
> this was a dud sample.
>
> Sorry if I keep hammering this point, it's just that I was really
> hoping for something special
> from Olympus, and with such a low-key slow lens, one would at the very
> least expect exemplary
> image rendition, in the tradition of other "slow" lenses like the 2.8
> Tessars, the new cheaper
> Leica Elmarit line of lenses, the peerless Mamiya 7 lenses, etc. The
> designers of this lens had
> all the freedoms in the world (including a high cost price for a
> through-and-through plastic
> lens like this, just look at the brilliant $90 Canon plastic 50mm f/
> 1.8 lenses) yet we are
> underwhelmed. Hmm, I wonder if the OM Zuiko 18mm will be better on the
> E-P1 - it's not much
> bigger, but from samples I've seen on high-res DSLRs it does not
> suffer these problems.
>
> Sure, it's expensive... but it's also an ancient design. I still hope
> somebody proves me wrong
> by posting some other great examples! Please... I need to restore my
> faith...
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