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Those wonderful Olympus lenses...
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=12317645
Sheesh! - a 500 GBP lens on a 1000 GBP camera - and STILL the Oly maniacs won't admit that there's a problem! |
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One *forum* post. Not a DPR review.
The guy didn't return. No mention of possible filter problems. He even posted a contradictory image - you can't have it both ways, either it vignettes or it doesn't. (Yes, I know it's probably just sky darkening, but the point is, this isn't a very scientific or methodically investigated post..) Some others on the post agreed, some didn't. Vignetting is not especially difficult to deal with. It may well be a problem with the lens design, and if it is.. well, gee, no other manufacturer has ever made errors or produced sub-standard products, or made a design compromise, now have they?! So which Oly maniacs are not admitting to a problem, and what exactly is that `problem`? Expanding on that, might make this a useful post. Or is this just a generic whine from *another* brand maniac? Sheesh indeed. |
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wrote in message oups.com... One *forum* post. Not a DPR review. The guy didn't return. No mention of possible filter problems. He even posted a contradictory image - you can't have it both ways, either it vignettes or it doesn't. (Yes, I know it's probably just sky darkening, but the point is, this isn't a very scientific or methodically investigated post..) Some others on the post agreed, some didn't. Vignetting is not especially difficult to deal with. It may well be a problem with the lens design, and if it is.. well, gee, no other manufacturer has ever made errors or produced sub-standard products, or made a design compromise, now have they?! So which Oly maniacs are not admitting to a problem, and what exactly is that `problem`? Expanding on that, might make this a useful post. Or is this just a generic whine from *another* brand maniac? Sheesh indeed. You miss the point - there has been an awful lot of hoo-hah in the Oly forum about the expected new lenses from Olympus (expressed in the usual nauseating manner of the Askey forums - 'Sweeeeet', Awesome' etc etc) and a good deal of bashing anyone who demurs from the forum stance that Olympus-photographic-equipment-is-manufactured-in-heaven-by-Angels-and-anyone-who-says-otherwise-is-just-a-demon-incarnate. One would have thought that their underwear dampening excitement at the prospect of paying Olympus huge prices for the precious new lenses would have been somewhat tempered by the knowledge that the existing ones don't seem to work very well! But, apparently not - and (as they doubtless chuckle in the Olympus boardroom) 'A foolish Olympus owner and his money are very easily parted" |
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No doubt about it, those shots do show signs of vignette. I wonder if the
guy had any sort of filter mounted on his lens. Possibly he did, and possibly that was the cause. Technically good shots otherwise - absolutely no signs of "banding", so, at least, we can be certain they weren't taken with a 20D Rob |
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"Knild" wrote in message ... http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=12317645 Sheesh! - a 500 GBP lens on a 1000 GBP camera - and STILL the Oly maniacs won't admit that there's a problem! When I read that thread in the forum, it looked like that they _do_ admit the problem. Look you're always going to have a couple of people that will never admit any flaw with anything they've purchased, as if it makes them lose face to ever do so. But most people are not so sensitive, and are more interested in solving the problem then denying it exists. |
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My point was - is there much of that *here*?
I see far more Nikon, Canon, and Leica `maniacs` here, and if you think it is solely Olympus owners, perhaps you need to investigate human nature... FWIW, I *do* own an Olympus camera - the C8080 (amongst other Pentax, Minolta and Bronica film equipment, and Canon and Sony digitals). The Oly is a very good fit to my needs as a general purpose camera. It has some stupid menu arrangements, and the software designers need to go back to school. But that doesn't stop it from having a lens and sensor that, at low ISO's (which is what I shoot), beats your average DSLR for resolution, right through it's 28-140 lens range. In one very portable little package. Not perfect, but not bad either. Do Olympus make some excellent, some good, some bad lenses? - Yes, of course they do, just like any other manufacturer. Are there Olympus fanatics? - Yes, of course, just like Leica fanatics, Nikon..etc.., but I don't see them causing a great problem here, nor do I see that forum example as evidence. Am I an Olympus fanatic? Am I foolish for buying the 8080? - you just made a sweeping generalisation that says I am, based on...? Yet I criticise Olympus for their design errors as I would any brand, and I think I made a good choice in the 8080, for the requirement I have. And I think it would be just a little silly to condemn all products from any manufacturer on one or two, or even three.., lenses or cameras. Name your brand, and I'm sure I (or others more knowledgable) could happily name the crap lenses/cameras *they* have created.. |
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Knild wrote:
One would have thought that their underwear dampening excitement at the prospect of paying Olympus huge prices for the precious new lenses would have been somewhat tempered by the knowledge that the existing ones don't seem to work very well! You obviously haven't done much research, almost any olympus user will tell you the "standard" zooms, especially the 14-54 is the dog of their lens line-up.This 'problem' is mainly at 54mm wide open as well. The 14-54 lens has this issue, but then again the camera has a "shading" setting to compensate, which this newbie user didn't have turned on. Can't blame the camera when the users won't read the manual! :-) Also unless the contrast is SUPER cranked it's hard to even see. You did leave out his coment: "I migrated south (in pixels that is) from the 20d and find the E-1 enviroment just right! Wonderful camera and a pleasure to use." Every camera has it's issues and these are no exceptions. I'm sure not going to waste my time trying to -troll- for problems on a camera I'm never going to use though.. -- Stacey |
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"Stacey" wrote in message ... You obviously haven't done much research, almost any olympus user will tell you the "standard" zooms, especially the 14-54 is the dog of their lens line-up Fair enough - but it's a 500 GBP 'dog', that's a lot of money to pay for a substandard lens. The 14-54 lens has this issue, but then again the camera has a "shading" setting to compensate So, are you saying that Olympus were aware from the outset that the Four Thirds system had inherent problems, and built a compensation device into their camera?- what about the 300? - does that have the fault rectification built in as well? Every camera has it's issues and these are no exceptions. I'm sure not going to waste my time trying to -troll- for problems on a camera I'm never going to use though I'm posting purely as someone who is looking to buy a DSLR in the very near future - and who wants to get the best value for money (which means far more than just initial price) possible. |
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Knild wrote:
"Stacey" wrote in message ... You obviously haven't done much research, almost any olympus user will tell you the "standard" zooms, especially the 14-54 is the dog of their lens line-up Fair enough - but it's a 500 GBP 'dog', that's a lot of money to pay for a substandard lens. That's why I didn't buy it. But I think "substandard" is pretty harsh for a lens that has very minor vignetting at the long end wide open. Almost any zoom with this wide a range is going to have issues somewhere in it's range and how much does the canon/nikon f2.8 equiv lens cost? I bet it's not $500. I'm waiting for the 14-35 F2 to come in and even if it's $1500, I'll probably get one. The 14-54 lens has this issue, but then again the camera has a "shading" setting to compensate So, are you saying that Olympus were aware from the outset that the Four Thirds system had inherent problems, The "system" doesn't have this problem, just looks like this one lens does at the long end of it's range. And IMHO if you look at "normal" images, you don't even see it. This guy cranked the contrast to maximum settings to see this, many said they have never noticed it. But yes it is there and probably why they put this setting in the camera menu. BTW here's how the canon 28-105 and 28-135 lenses rate to one user. The latter is a $400 lens/paperweight and both are a stop slower than the ZD lens is. ========= http://www.tawbaware.com/canon_lens_test.htm I encourage you to look at the images below for yourself, but here is how I interpret these images. Both lenses are pretty blurry at wide apertures at all focal lengths. For my purposes, neither of these lenses are usable at wide apertures. In fact, I was unable to find any combination of aperture and focal length where the edges were as sharp as the center. The Canon 28-135 seems to perform slightly better at 28mm, particularly at wide apertures, but still isn't very good. Given that I wouldn't want to use either lens at wide apertures, I consider this superiority to be of academic interest only. The Canon 28-105 is clearly better at 105mm. The edges in particular are much sharper using the Canon 28-105 lens than the Canon 28-135 lens. Even at F11, the edges of the Canon 28-135mm lens are considerably softer than the center. At 50mm, things seem pretty even. Both are soft at the edges wide open, although the center of the 28-135mm lens is slightly sharper at wide apertures. The canon 28-105 shows less contrast, and the images are slightly "warmer" (more of a red tint). Although this is not apparent from these test shots, I felt that the Canon 28-135 was not uniform in its softness. At wide angle, the right edge of the image appears softer than the left. At longer focal lengths, the top of the image is softer than the the bottom. In contrast, the softness of the edges of the Canon 28-105 was roughly uniform. For these crops I picked areas from the softer edges of the Canon 28-135, so these may represent a "worst-case" scenario. ================= Now that sounds/looks like some crappy optics to me! Did you see the test images? I think I could live with a touch of vignetting rather than a lens that's unusable wide open? Heres some test sniplets from the zuiko 11-22 ZD. http://www.geocities.com/kievgurl/E300/11-22.html From wide open to f11, it works fine. If you want equal optical performance to the expencive zuiko's, you're going to have to buy the expencive Canon L glass. If you think the cheap or old skool optics are going to work good on a 20D or even a 10D, you're dreaming. Every camera has it's issues and these are no exceptions. I'm sure not going to waste my time trying to -troll- for problems on a camera I'm never going to use though I'm posting purely as someone who is looking to buy a DSLR in the very near future - and who wants to get the best value for money (which means far more than just initial price) possible. You sure seem to be posting mainly olympus bashing posts. I'm not sure what you're point is? These work fine for some people, if you don't like their "features" buy something else. When I was looking, I wasn't posting canon or nikon bashing posts. This sort of posting smells like a troll to me. But anyway you sure sound like a perfect canidate for a canon. Have fun cleaning your sensor and using 20 year old optical designs!! :-) -- Stacey |
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