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Its a pity Olympus have discontinued its line of 4/3 cameras and gone to micro 4/3, but there is a way back for this lens with the Olympus E M1 with its phase detect autofocus. An adapter is needed of course, but this is just a minor inconvenience. The lens is well worth the expense, it is pin sharp throughout the range with great contrast and colour rendition. It is a good weight, but fast at f2.8-3.5. With the EC-14 adapter, it stretches to 70-280mm f5 with very little loss of sharpness and AF speed. Beautifully engineered.
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Well packaged. No defects and responds well.
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I've been looking for a good versatile lens for my camera for some time and had bid on a few prior to this one and am happy to say this lens lives up to all expectations, if I need any others will be happy to buy in the same way, regards John
The Olympus Zuiko ED 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 lens is, simply put, a great lens. The f/2.8 maximum aperture is professional level fast and Olympus have treated the build quality as such. A weather/environmentally sealed body, large firm zoom ring, solid tripod mount and ED glass make for a truly pro-grade lens. This particular model has perhaps one major advantage over the newer SWD model. Because of the SWD drive in the newer model, the maximum aperture drops off more quickly. Ultimately this means that this lens is faster than it’s newer sibling throughout the zoom range. This might not sound like much but, honestly, it makes a difference. “Hang on a minute! This lens doesn’t have the SWD focussing speed” I hear you cry. Unless you have an SWD compatible body (E-30, E-3 etc) this makes no difference. I’ve been using one of these on my E-510 and it’s considerably faster than the consumer grade 70-300mm or 40-150mm (both in terms of focussing and aperture). If you have an E-5xx or E-4xx (and potentially the newly announced E-6xx) model camera, you don’t have the facility to run the SWD drive anyway. In real terms, both this model and the SWD model focus at the same speed on non-SWD cameras. Coupled with the faster aperture on this model, I would genuinely recommend this one over the newer one. All in all, 5 out of 5, a great lens. Pro image quality, pro build quality, well sealed, bomb proof casing and a proper focussing distance scale (something sadly missing from more and more consumer lenses these days). Coupled with the 4/3 sensor crop of 2x, meaning the lens is a 100-400mm in film terms, you really can’t ask for more. I mean, 400mm (35mm eqiv.) at f/3.5?Read full review
Having tried the 40-150mm standard zoom for Olympus digital cameras (mine's an E1) this is something quite different, a far better lens by a long way Good bits - very sharp - extra stop makes it faster and better for low light and speed - robust and very well made Bad bits - weight (it has to be twice as heavy as the 40-150mm)
