I swear, I had written a crap load of stuff for the past hour, and accidentally hit the undo button and *poof*...everything went missing!
So here goes again...
I finally decided after some time to put my deposit down for the pre-order of the Olympus OM-D E-M1...yay!
It was a hard decision, I was planning between getting the body alone or the body with the 12-40mm (Full Frame 24-80mm Equivalent) f2.8 constant aperture pro zoom lens which was a new lens from Oly.
After some thought and reviewing my past photos on Aperture, I noticed whenever I used my zooms, I almost pass the FF80mm mark every time, hitting at about FF100mm and above, so while the lens was awesome, it wasn't practical...plus is was $1,000.
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| Olympus M.Zuiko 14-150mm f4.0-5.6 - Full Frame 28-300mm Equivalent |
My final setup decision would be one similar to my current Canon 450D setup, a multipurpose zoom, and one solid prime.
As mentioned earlier, the 14-150mm became the obvious choice after reviewing my Aperture samples and realising I always hit the high end of the focal range. Plus after reading up the reviews and viewing the samples (Link), I think this would be the go-to all rounder walk-about lens for the time being.
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| Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f1.4 - Full Frame 50mm Equivalent |
The Panasonic Leica 25mm was quite a no brainer. My Sigma 30mm f1.4 for the Canon 450D was an awesome lens, it took great snaps and at a really nice focal range (FF 48mm Equivalent). I needed a replacement, and after reading a lot of positive reviews, testing the lens myself, and checking out a few more samples online (Link), it was pretty obvious this would be it.
The OM-D E-M1 body alone will retail at S$1,948.00, while the two lenses, purchased second hand will roughly set me back another S$1,200...that's a whooping S$3,148 for the entire purchase...ouch!
Then again when you put it into perspective, I am upgrading from the lowest of the Canon DSLR range, to the highest end M43 system camera...so I guess the cost is somewhat expected, plus it's overall still smaller or somewhat close to the size of my current DSLR setup. Win.
3 comments:
The 25mm lens looks great!
not so sure about the quality of the 14-150 though. did a brief search online but seems like there's not any stand-out tele-zoom lenses out there. maybe you wanna consider buying a tele prime instead?
I don't want prime for my zoom because ultimately I needed a multipurpose lens for travel and walkabouts. Quality on a multipurpose zoom honestly don't expect much. I was pretty pleased though when I read the reviews of the 14-150mm. Two reviews I read gave surprisingly positive feedback regarding the lens, both touched on sharpness and bokeh from its 7-rounded blade diaphragm which they felt were pretty pleasing for a multi-zoom, and from the samples, they did seem rather nice. It's not going to win any awards but it was pretty good especially when paired with an Oly cam rather than a Panasonic. Overall they seem slightly better than my current Canon 18-135mm which I was pretty fine with for photos of running, soccer, and wide angle stuff like during gatherings at the dinner table.
There aren't good tele-zoom lenses out there in M43 yet because it's still being built. Olympus just released the f2.8 constant 14-40mm this year and will release the f2.8 40-150mm in 2014, they had pro-zooms in the 4-3 cat but never in Micro 4-3, these two lenses are the first pro M43 lenses from around. Ideally it'll be nice to have both la but as of now I think I'll be happy with the multi-zoom + 25mm prime setup.
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