tilman
All-Pro
- Location
- Portland, OR
so it's winter again - that time of year when we ponder too much over our photo gear instead of using it
I really like the Olympus 75-300mm for it's size&weight to performance ratio.
It does have some shortcomings though:
-slow and not super-accurate autofocus
-in less than perfect light I have to raise the ISO and hence work fairly hard in postprocessing to remove noise to my level of happiness
My hoped for solution to this was that the next generation of m43 sensors would have been a stop or two better. Which would have solved the problem and made all my lenses faster - while keeping their wonderful compactness.
Now that Olympus announced/released the E-M1X and keep pushing for bigger and faster lenses I don't think I will get that "better m43 sensor" anytime soon.
Time to look for alternatives.
Full Frame is out of the question, I guess - I won't get a 600mm(ish) equivalent that weighs just under 500 grams.
Is there a solution in any system that gets me a 150-600mm (ish) equivalent while improving in one or more of these areas:
-better AF, better image quality
without increasing the weight of the lens all too much???
My conclusion is that the only improvement which wouldn't add any weight would be at the sensor level.
So maybe a slow APS-C lens with a fairly current APS-C sensor might do it?
Some shots of the 75-300mm that I really like. All stationary subjects and mostly manual focus:
bunny rabbit by tilman paulin, on Flickr
black Robin by tilman paulin, on Flickr
Painted Hills by tilman paulin, on Flickr
nosey ground squirrel by tilman paulin, on Flickr
female Hihi by tilman paulin, on Flickr
Tui eating berries by tilman paulin, on Flickr
sunday evening walk by tilman paulin, on Flickr
I really like the Olympus 75-300mm for it's size&weight to performance ratio.
It does have some shortcomings though:
-slow and not super-accurate autofocus
-in less than perfect light I have to raise the ISO and hence work fairly hard in postprocessing to remove noise to my level of happiness
My hoped for solution to this was that the next generation of m43 sensors would have been a stop or two better. Which would have solved the problem and made all my lenses faster - while keeping their wonderful compactness.
Now that Olympus announced/released the E-M1X and keep pushing for bigger and faster lenses I don't think I will get that "better m43 sensor" anytime soon.
Time to look for alternatives.
Full Frame is out of the question, I guess - I won't get a 600mm(ish) equivalent that weighs just under 500 grams.
Is there a solution in any system that gets me a 150-600mm (ish) equivalent while improving in one or more of these areas:
-better AF, better image quality
without increasing the weight of the lens all too much???
My conclusion is that the only improvement which wouldn't add any weight would be at the sensor level.
So maybe a slow APS-C lens with a fairly current APS-C sensor might do it?
Some shots of the 75-300mm that I really like. All stationary subjects and mostly manual focus:
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