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DavidHi, I have a stupid question... how useful is a prime telephoto lens? Personally, I'd get prime normal or wide lenses, but I would always want zooming on the long end. But I guess it's difficult to find a fast and long lens that has zoom?
Is it just me or are these so out of focus as to be unusable. If they are not out of focus and therefore this is the rendering we can expect, I'm outta here
O.K.
Almost 40 years ago I went around Europe with a 24mm and a 135mm. It worked pretty well, but 135mm was sort of pushing it. 150mm might have been too much.David
As a Leica owners you should already know the answer to this!
Personally, with the exception of my 7-14 I always shoot with primes. They will generally be much higher quality than zooms. What you should consider is the ability to crop which is generally better with primes than zooms for high quality work, say fine art versus less demanding work.
Mid-range zooms are particular good for landscape work. You often think you need wide but in fact you want to isolate and pick out features in a landscape that draw the viewer in. Is my theory, anyway. So I often work with 50mm and 90mm effective focal lengths on my GH-2 and I also used (When I had it) my 90/2.8 on my M8 quite extensively.
A 75/1.8 which is actually an effective 150mm lens can probably be cropped significantly giving you an effect doubling like a zoom, if you aren't intending on large prints.
Of course you lose the versatilty of a zoom and you are slowed down because if you need a different focal length you (obviously) have to swap lenses.
Swings and roundabouts. Not sure a 75 (e.g. 150) is particularly high on my list of focal lengths to own. I'm surprised that Olympus did not go for a more convential mid-sized zoom equivalent to 135mm on a 35mm camera.
LouisB
Look Jorgen - I don't like to be pushy - but don't you think this Southampton trip is misguided . . . you could get an OMD a 45 f1.8, a 75 f1.8 etc. etc. for the same price . . why on earth not?
Pretty impressive actually. They state that "The Olympus 75mm ƒ/1.8 is one of the sharpest lenses we've ever tested. It is tack-sharp even wide open at ƒ/1.8, gets a little sharper through to ƒ/8, and stays sharp even stopped down to ƒ/16." The data supports that as well.