Through a Glass Moose writes:
<<<The heck with the body; what about the lens? ;-)
Hmm, did not bring a card with me--perhaps a mistake and did not know they
would have this. I could tell the ergonomics on the body were very good.
There is a fxn switch on the lens though am not sure what one would map there.
The rep had the ISO on 1600 and changed it to lowest easily available and
stopped down then shot a few signs at 100mm (200 ff equiv) and chimped on back
after shooting at ?.25 to 0.5sec sec or so--very sharp so IS is likely crazy
good.
DOF control not so good at f8 equivalent but macro at 100mm still very good--I
think mag gets up to 0.4 or so FF equiv. Best I could tell suspect they take
the mag into account for IS as it performed well in a few shots it had no
right to do so. Looks like a Pro lens FWIW.
So believe it may be a hard to beat walk around zoom for landscape/medium
mag macro. The macro may be higher mag at shorter FL but did not try that nor
now remember that spec. Better have a faster lens in pocket for dof control.
I had the whole kit for 10-15 minutes and was talking with he Oly rep. We
talked about OM a bit even. I suppose I looked serious, which was true.
My suspicion is it would receive a MSOA, (Moose seal of approval) for what it
does, but will have to await the official announcement or lack thereof.
Quick trial, no formal test, Mike
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