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Re: [OM] 17mm Zuiko was RE: E-P1 hands-on report - AG Schnozz Style

Subject: Re: [OM] 17mm Zuiko was RE: E-P1 hands-on report - AG Schnozz Style
From: "Clay Nichols" <Clay.Nichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:42:56 -0400
A low end Mercedes is a low end car. A low end lens is a low end lens. There 
ain't no glass there. You get what you pay for.
Clay

>>> "Jeff Keller" <om-list@xxxxxxxxxxx> 09/28/09 7:11 PM >>> 
The Zuiko 17mm has a msrp of $299 putting it in the lowest/cheapest lens 
category Olympus has. Olympus should be flattered that you are trying to 
compare it to $2500 lens (Canon 17mm TS-E). I'm happy that Olympus has been 
coming out with some interesting new ideas at affordable prices. Hopefully 
they will look at the response the market place has and use the knowledge to 
also build innovative, top end lenses and cameras that sell very well. 

Yes, I personally would like to see Olympus come out with "fringe" lenses 
like the Canon 17mm TS-E, but the number of sales Olympus could get from an 
esoteric lens such as a shift lens is probably tiny. I suspect Canon was 
quite surprised how well the market place responded to the 17mm TS-E. Canon 
has a much larger user base to peddle the esoteric to and can place bets on 
"fringe" lenses. Olympus seems to be searching for both a niche to exploit 
and to target main stream camera users. I would expect them to come up with 
a "New" idea targeting main stream camera buyers before Canon does. 

For better or worse, zoom lenses are where most sales are. It is sweet that 
Olympus found a way to come out with a low cost prime. I haven't touched 
either of the micro 4/3 lenses. The collapsing 14-42 is the most interesting 
to me and will probably ultimately pull money out of my wallet. 

Going back to the earlier comparison of the Zuiko 150/2 to a Canon(?) 300/4 
... personally I find the Zuiko brings a smile just hooking it up to the 
camera. For me the Canon is just an effective tool with no emotional 
connection. With a Canon EOS digital body being an effective digital body of 
OM Zuikos, they've succeeded in also peddling 3 of their lenses to me. 

Jeff Keller 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dawid Loubser [mailto:dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 

I'm not sure that I buy it. We've been through this before, just scaling 
down a 35mm design, with tight manufacturing tolerances, should 
already do a 
heck of a lot better than the M.Zuiko 17/2.8. 

In fact, from what I've seen, almost every 35mm lens with the same 
actual (or even smaller) focal length than the Oly 17mm trashes it 
on all fronts of image quality, except perhaps resolution (Can't say, 
there aren't 35mm sensors with the same pixel density, especially not in 
any current digital rangefinders): 

- Voigtlander 15mm and 12mm 
- Nikkor 14-24/2.8 
- Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 
- Leica Tri-Elmar 16-18-21 
- etc. 


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