Comments on: Olympus 12 and 45mm lens review. And how to upgrade your m43 system (ThePhoBlographer)

By: Miklós Rabi

Miklós Rabi — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:29:22 +0000

I love my 45! Not as tasty as my Canon nFD 50/1.2, but a great tool for SHARP portrait work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miklosrabi/6486785929/in/photostream

By: mahler

mahler — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:52:03 +0000

If Olympus would produce the right products with the right quality, would not complain about.

1.) The Olympus bodies have IMO awkward uasbility because of the multicontroller thing. If Olympus does not change that, I will keep my stand on their bodies. Should not be a problem.

2.) In my buying history of lenses over the last twenty years, the Olympus 2.0/12mm so far is the worst I bought. If my copy is faulty remains to be seen. So, up to now Olympus did not do much to provide me with confidence that their products are as nice as everybody thinks.

If I can, I try to post images of the relevant issues shortly and post links here.

You can be assured, that I did not anything strange with my 1.8/45mm lens. It was in a camera bag and a few times in my jacket bag (without keys!). The material quality is simply not good. And I am not the only one, who found that out.

By: Katsunami

Katsunami — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:16:02 +0000

The Phoblographer is an idiot. He often reviews products without actually being able to use all of the features… Indeed he often doesn’t know many of the features the reviewed product has, seeing that he often changes his reviews afterwards.

By: Sam Waldron

Sam Waldron — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:53:02 +0000

It also probably depends on the user – lets face it, not that many M43 users are coming from a background of high quality glass, so opinions on ‘awesome lenses’ may be elevated.

Just looks like a good, although overpriced lens with some sample variation.

Unfortunately sample variation is an issue for most manufacturers and wide angles seem quite susceptible…

By: mahler

mahler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:54:54 +0000

No, not true. As explained in my previous post, Olympus has substandard quality control. With its focus ring, the lens is over-engineered and thus to expensive. The focus ring feature does not give as much benefits as originally claimed and may contribute to the quality problems.