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I bought this lens for about $95 on eBay to use for sports photography with my Olympus e 3. It has proven to be a relatively easy lens to use even handheld and given that you must manually focus it. The effective 600 millimeter focal length gives you plenty of reach. It is not a real fast lens but I generally take pictures of college kids playing lacrosse in pretty good light anyway. (Without good light it is very difficult to focus.) It certainly is fairly heavy but a whole lot smaller then other manufacturers lenses of comparable reach. And I am not about to spend $3,000 on a fancy 600 millimeter lens. The picture quality is good, but I would not say excellent. The 200mm F4 provides better IQ, IMHO.
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Zuiko is world renouned 4 making great lenses. This super telephoto is tack sharp & VERY light 4 it's size. They claim it can B hand held & 4 shooting in bright light it probably can but a mono pod is preferred & a sturdy tripod is best. Mounted on a 4/3's camera body, like an Olympus OM-D E-M5, it becomes a 600mm f/4.5 & that sports fans is TERRIFIC 4 the $$. U still have 2 manually focus it but have U checked the $$$$$$ of a 600mm f/4.0 lens lately? I once bought a house 4 what Canon is asking for their latest glamour bottle!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I purchased this lens for use on a Canon 5D2. I am a 30-yr pro with previous Nikon, Leica R, Leica M, Hasselblad and Sinar 4x5 and 8x10 systems (and many more). I am very particular about lenses and use specific glass for rendering qualities more than anything else. I currently own almost all the Zeiss ZE lenses, and only 3 Canon Ls left from 9 Canon lenses from 3 years ago. I shoot mostly street things and sell prints as fine art documentaries. I like long lenses, but with a bag full of WA primes and up to 100, I thought I wanted a long, light prime. I had been looking at Contax and Nikon 180 2.8 options, then read about the OM. Longer, lighter, great wide open. Maybe. I used this lens exactly 1 hour then sold it. I used a fotodiox pro adapter, but the lens had movement at the adapter. It felt very end-heavy and awkward to handhold and therefore tough to focus. Color was unsaturated and flat. Nothing special and not worth the hassle. Canons 300 f4IS is so much nicer, albeit more expensive, bigger and heavier. A Canon 200L w/1.4x extender would be a closer size/weight option with much better handling/color/optics. I can't recommend this lens at any price.Read full review
Very heavy, due to its date of manufacture (built well). First images convinced me that this lens will produce very sharp images on a budget. The attached image was shot through double pane glass and still looks great.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Nice lens: built beautifully sharp images when used with a tripod close to the quality of the 50-200 zuiko with 1.4 adapter though the latter is much easier to use Will take some Practice to use very inexpensive for such quality.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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