Characterized by its f/4 constant maximum aperture, this lens offers consistent performance throughout the zoom range to suit both stills and video shooting. And your title line "Equivalent to 24mm to 200mm on a full frame sensor yet with constant f4 maximum aperture. Spider my understanding is that manufacturers can turn off the option of seeing uncorrected RAW images in Lightroom for certain lenses, and Olympus decided to do so for the heavily-distorted 12-100mm F4 lens. Find out which brand came close to sweeping all the categories, and vote for your choice for the best overall product of 2023.

It's perhaps not quite as quick as some Panasonic lenses designed to take advantage of those cameras' Depth-from-Defocus technology, but it's more than fast enough for any wildlife I encountered, both inside and outside the Australia zoo. Additionally, this lens supports Synchronized IS, which pairs the optical IS system with select Olympus cameras' 5-axis sensor-shift image stabilization to control up to 6. However, I can imagine that after the arrival of the 150-400mm lens, nature photographers will only need two lenses in their backpacks – the 12-100mm and 150-400mm. About 9 months has passed since I got the Olympus 12-100 f/4 and I’ve used it quite a bit in various settings. And I have provided you with examples how much better this lens is compared to cheap one that you mentioned like bargain DOF/light gathering devices.All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998–2024 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved. So this is no special abstract use case, but normal life - and not possible on m43 since you'd need a f1 38mm lens for that. Equivalent to 24mm to 200mm on a full frame sensor" : simple statement about FOV, just avoiding '84 to 12 degree' notation. The rapid AF speeds also make it easy to use the lens when you're near minimum focus distance, allowing for easy capture of close-ups without necessarily needing to resort to manual focus. We've taken a closer look at the image quality and dynamic range impact of the move to a Stacked CMOS global shutter sensor.

There *is* no “ISO compromise” unless you care more about image metadata and camera settings than about the actual results.So the mft setup is half as heavy, overall smaller in size, easier to handle due to 50/50 weight distribution. It's one of the sharpest superzooms ever created (near record setting MTFs on Lenstip at 12mm, virtually no weaknesses, and their Editor's Choice Award). 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 would welcome, if it focused at shorter distances on longer focal lengths, which would enable me to photograph even smaller species of animals such as spiders.

We took to the streets for some portraits and shot a few macro photos for this first installment in our sample gallery.BTW Gents, if it doesn’t work for me either this time to be the happy owner of the lens, I would not have more attempts should service also fail with the next one I bought. However, in this real world, the F-No is nothing to do with anything behind the gold-plated contact. The biggest motivation for many Micro Four Thirds users is the significantly size and weight advantage. I would personally choose the Tamron for sharpness and brightness but could see how someone needing absolute weather resistance and stabilization would choose the Oly.