Okay, now I understand. I tend to forget that the last zoom I owned (Zuiko
75-150) was designed in the early 70's. I guess the technology should have
improved since then but I assumed that the primes would still be ahead.
Thanks Winsor, I stand corrected!
Andrew McPhee
At 08:58 PM 20/02/2005 -0800, Winsor wrote:
>I think Oly is not alone. Most lens development seems to be going to
>zooms and fast, long primes. The disadvantage of the e-1 is that there
>is no system of AF lenses for 35mm already there for people who want
>them as there is with some other makers. The result, though, is that
>even with systems with a lot of 35mm legacy primes is that their design
>may not be very good with a sensor instead of film and that their
>technology is also old. I have not looked at Canon's site, but if you
>look at the lens site for Nikon Japan you will find that the MTFs for
>the recent zoom lenses are better than the MTF of the primes, even the
>ones with outstanding reputations.
>
>
>
>
>Long Beach, California, USA
>On Feb 20, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Andrew McPhee wrote:
>
> > No you guys are not the last two - count me in as well, I've always
> > had a zoom phobia. And this is another reason digicams don't interest
> me.
> > They all seem to use zooms, for example of the nine lenses on offer for
> the
> > E-1 six are zooms and none of the primes go below 50mm (OM equiv. of
> > 100mm).
> >
> > The zoom-prime ratio may be improving (3 new of each slated for
> > release in 2005) but I fail to understand if this is Olympus' 'Pro'
> system why
> > primes aren't in the majority - since when have pro photographers used
> > predominantly zoom lenses? Anyone care to enlighten me on this?
> >
> > Andrew McPhee
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