Not counting the 35-70/4 AF made for the OM-F (OM-30; will also work with
all the other OM mount bodies), there are four of them:
35-70/3.5~4.5
35-70/3.5~4.8
35-70/3.6
35-70/4
Probably the best optical performer of all these (including the AF) is the
"two touch" f/3.6, but it is also the largest at 67x74mm and heaviest at
400g. You didn't mention what you wanted to "compare" but I presume
performance although weight, size and speed might be a consideration too.
Here are my bookmarks of sites and pages that cover the 35-70 Zuiko zooms.
You can read the specs and see photos of all four plus the AF version on
Hans' (van Veluwen) wonderful Sales Information File site here:
http://www.veluwen.demon.nl/om-sif/lensgroup.htm
Tabular spec data about them is on Paul Farrar's very useful site here,
including price range data (some of which may be dated, but is still in the
ball park):
http://www.datasync.com/~farrar/zuiko.html#zoom
Gary Reese tested all of them including the AF version, the results of
which can be found on his nice site here:
http://members.aol.com/olympusom/lenstests/default.htm
Lee Hawkins' nice site also provides a synopsis of Modern Photography
reviews over the years. He has their test results for the f/3.6, f/4, and
f/3.5~4.5 on this page:
http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/mp-zuiko-tests.txt
[scroll down past all the primes to section II which covers the zooms]
Skip Williams has done some marvelous work gathering eBay auction closing
price data about the lenses. He has data on all but the AF version here:
http://www.skipwilliams.com/olympus/zuiko_ebay_history.htm
Hope this helps out.
-- John
At 01:34 4/27/00 , Wayne wrote:
>Has anyone compared the OM 35-70mm zooms in any article or web page.
>There appear to be several models in the various used ads. I am looking
>for the best combination of size-weight/sharpness/cost.
>
>thanks,
>Wayne
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