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Subject: Sv: [OM] 50mm: Which one to keep?
From: "Bernd Moeller" <dsl33687a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:40:59 +0200
Hi,

thanks for all your comments on my "difficult" problem on which lens to 
dispose. 

I won't bury any of them. Instead, I will do some tests under different light 
conditions in order to find out how they perfom.

I solved the problem of lens-caps (that many of you have, obviously) by buying 
a number of these thin plastic devices constructed by Olympus for that purpose. 
;-)   I found quite a number of original bodycaps as well as front and rear 
lens caps at a local store for around 1-2 $ each. They DO have more of them, 
for almost any camera brand you wish. 

Regards

Bernd



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gary Reese <pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] 50mm: Which one to keep?


> Bernd:
> 
> The only way to answer you question:
> "Used under average light conditions, will the 1.8's I have perform
> better than the (older) 1.4 I have?"
> is for you to try them out on a subject.  Then pick the one with the
> results you liked best. My tests are valid only for the lens that I
> tested and unless I indicated differently in the Notes section below a
> particular lens, the grades between lenses don't become significantly
> different until they are a full letter grade apart (example: A vs. B,
> but no A- vs B). That is because I can't subjective assign grades any
> closer than that until I immediately view one shoot after seeing another
> (what I call a paired comparison). I've done that to compare the 50mm
> Leitz Summicron-M, and I'll soon post a paired comparison of the 90mm
> f/2 Zuiko with a 1980 era 90mm f/2 Suimmicron-R. Hint: they are a
> virtual tie.
> 
> The updated lens tests show a correction in the serial number for the
> best performing 50mm f/1.4 Zuiko.  It is the fully multicoated one with
> numbers >1,100,000. The 50mm f/1.4 Zuiko MC lenses from about 770,000 to
> 1,100,000 have less than full multicoating and appear to have marginally
> "poorer" (but still quite good) performance than the >1,100,000 and
> significantly better performance than the <770,000 G.Zuikos.
> 
> Gary Reese
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
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