4/3 lenses

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Permalink Reply by John Nabben on December 22, 2010 at 1:10pm

OK, I managed to answer my own question with a little bit of investigation ( not too much I just went to WIKI). So next question is how do sigma & panasonic etc stack up to olympus lenses are they better ? worse ? same ?

Permalink Reply by Jack Harwick on December 22, 2010 at 1:16pm

Panasonic lenses tend to have image stabilization built in, which you don't need. I'm not aware of any Sigma lenses that fit. I own 5 Olympus lenses and they are all good the 12-60 is truly a great lens and well worth the $900 current cost.

Permalink Reply by Barrie Norman on December 31, 2010 at 5:05am

The Sigma lenes are good especially the macro lens, however Olympus Glass is the best there is even compared to Cannon and Nikon so the Sigma are not going to be as good, but it depends what you want to use them for, I use the 10-20 and 18-50 Sigmas for landscape work, the 18-50 has also performed well for portraits, but this is not my area, I have only taken family shots with it. But you get what you pay for and the Sigma lens are much cheaper than the Olympus and on the E520 the Sigma lens will be very good. I hope this has been helpful and keep us posted with your choice of lens.

 

Regards Barrie

Permalink Reply by Dan Tubbs, Jr. on March 26, 2011 at 8:05pm

I subscribe to four photography magazines and the Olympus Zuiko lenses consistantly come out with high scores on all the tests that I have seen. I recently purchased a 12-60mm SWD lens for my E3 for a little over $800 and it is the best lens I have ever owned. I know this comes a little late for this discussion, but I just had to say how much I love my Oly lenses.

Permalink Reply by Dave Swinnerton on December 22, 2010 at 1:48pm

Hi Their are some sigma lenses for 4/3rds, namely 105mm and 150mm  f2.8 macro lenses a 30mm f1.4 a 50mm f1.8 a 20mm f1.8 a 300mm to 800mm f5.6 monster lens. These range in price from £200 to £6,000 the 105 and 150mm macro lenses a very very sharp too.

 

Dave

Permalink Reply by Barrie Norman on December 23, 2010 at 9:32am

I have the following Sigma Lens that I use on my E30, 10-20, 18-50, 150 Macro 50-500 they are all very good, Panasonic are Micro 4/3 and you would need an adaptor, sigma cove the areas where either the Oly lens are expensive or not covered, but act quickly as Sigma have stopped developing 4/3 mounts and I think that they will stop them out in time.

Permalink Reply by Ramasubramaniyan on January 24, 2011 at 8:06pm

I have the Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro and it is a very good lens.

I recently bought the 50-500mm lens for telezoom. It is good for its price, but you should note that it is a bit soft at 400-500mm.

Here are some photos taken with these lesnes

 

105mm macro - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=105mm&w=71419827%40N00

50-500mm lens - http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=71419827%40N00&q=bigma&m=text

 

Ram

Permalink Reply by bill bruzas on May 5, 2011 at 1:51am

well i have been useing sigma lens for years now with out any problems