For example, a travel photographer may opt to choose a lighter and smaller overall camera system based on the 1 in. It’s big, heavy and expensive, and while the sample photos I’ve seen are indeed very nice, in my opinion Olympus has a better all-round travel lens in its catalog: the 14-150 MkII. on the wide end, so 3 stops ahead in ISO performance, and gives you a stop of IBIS at 1/15s, so it's like having the Oly at 1s exposure. This means that the capable camera can sync the in bod

I have to agree with Robin that if you had to have only one lens for the system – and perhaps to cover everything – this would be it. The combination of excellent performance, good zoom range, excellent build and reasonable size and weight add up to a brilliant package. Of course, compared to an equivalent FF lens, the 12-100 is a feather, but a m43 camera is not a full frame camera. For the past few weeks we've been running a series of polls to find out what you - our readers - think of the major product releases of 2016.You may have seen my photos in various exhibitions, on the Internet and many Czech and foreign magazines and books. Which is what you apparently didn't understand when you asked "So you can close aperture on 135 format but you can not open it on MFT? Equivalence has nothing to do with DOF obsession… if anything, insisting that f/4 = f/4 could be said to be EXIF obsession. But best will be to compare same scene shot with same body and different lenses to be able to compare.

Zooming in and out is absolutely smooth without any hicks, and so is the focusing, which allows for very precise focusing. Since then, probably 80% of my m4/3 travel photography has been done using the 14-150, despite my shelf full of m.If you think about all the other lens combinations you’d need for this, it very well could be a wash if we are looking at f/1.

The autofocus of the Olympus 12-100mm lens is quick and reliable, and I didn’t see any flare when shooting directly into bright light. You'll struggle to really blur the background fully away unless you're real close to your subject and at near maximum zoom. This is great news for users that might be leery of a Micro Four Thirds lens that 'only' opens up to F4, as well as those users that want to take advantage of the high-res shot mode. Yes, I used to have the 9-18, but I replaced it a while ago with the Panasonic 8-18 which is reasonably small and light (compared with the 7-14 Pro, anyway), takes screw-in filters, and is quite a bit sharper at all apertures and focal lengths.I have not done a side by side comparison between the 12-100mm and 12-40mm, but from my extensive shooting experience and memory using both lenses, I did feel that the newer 12-100mm F4 Pro lens is slightly sharper, but not by a significant margin. I love working with the lens, which is not showing any signs of wear and tear even after years of using. But its always a trade-off, if i prefer a smaller and lighter lens without being willing to sacrifice my system’s total focal length range, I have to tote additional lenses around. Of course it is true that a smaller format allows designing smaller components than for a larger format – provided all other parameters of the comparison are the same!