Was the feeling of ".........build quality and handling....." derived from
the sensation of being "...........so light as to feel like a
toy....................."
If so, why ?
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Anyone tried a ZD 9-18 yet?
> Just to throw in my uninformed opinion, my colleague (who is a 'sissy'
> for
> using a digital Olympus, especially after I switched from Canon EOS
> digital
> to Olympus OM and monochrome film :-) recently purchased a ZD 9-18 for
> his wife (to mount on her E-500) and I had a chance to play with the
> lens
> a bit on his E-3.
>
> There are two very differing aspects to this lens it seems: First of
> all, the optical
> quality seems really very nice, even if f/4 - f/5.6 is a bit slow for
> any
> lens in my opinion. An E-3 with a great viewfinder is already pretty
> dim, it must be horrendous
> on an E-500/510 etc - you have to use/trust AF, and low-light is near
> impossible. It appears uniformly
> sharp, great colours, very consistent - in good Olympus tradition.
>
> What I was truly unimpressed with, was the build quality and handling.
> It is so light as to feel
> like a toy, the focusing is painfully slow and noisy (and since it's
> focus-by-wire, even manual focusing
> was so poor, I couldn't help laughing). So really, from a handling
> point of view, feels like a toy / piece
> of junk, actually worse than Canon's notoriously poor kit lenses like
> the 18-55mm if you ask me. I would not
> enjoy using the lens.
>
> On the other hand, it seems capable of producing great images. So it
> depends what your priorities are.
> But really, it's physically not a nice piece of equipment in my opinion.
>
>
> On 22 Nov 2008, at 2:54 AM, GMcGrath@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Just curious if anyone has used one of these yet. Thus far, my wide
>> end
>> stops at 14mm for my 510, and I'd like to go wider. Any comments now
>> or in the
>> near future about this lens would be appreciated.
>
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