My previous camera before that was a Panasonic LX100, and while it’s a great, great, great camera…as a professional, I didn’t fully trust it as a main camera, especially when the light started dropping. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. If you have a function specific to the way you shoot like Magnify, Peaking or Digital Teleconverter, you can assign one of them to a button on the lens barrel and access it instantly. I wasn’t worrying about changing my kit to get a shot, about making my wife stand just so while I swap lenses.

In MF mode the ring has hard stops at both ends of the scale, whereas in AF mode the MF ring continuously rotates. At the same time, the Sony a7r III — a far older camera — can outdo this lens with a third-party option on it. The lens is capable of approximately 50 fps (AF/AE tracking) sequential shooting on the OM SYSTEM OM-1 thanks to advanced camera control technology. nbsp; As with other high-grade lenses from Olympus, it has a push/pull focus collar with a declutching mechanism to switch quickly between manual- and auto-focus.One unexpected bonus of the complex design is that the 12-40 has a near focus limit of just 20cm, even at the telephoto end.

Short answer: if straight lines are at all important to you, you'll absolutely want to correct the output of this lens at all focal lengths except maybe 25-30mm, and probably even there, too. if you're going to play in the pro leagues, you need pro-level glass to match your bodies, and Olympus to their credit realised that. Part of this might be because, as a PRO lens, Olympus advertises the 12-40 as extensively environmentally sealed - it's meant to be shock, dust, splash, and freeze-proofed to the same level as the E-M1 body.At the end, traditionally, we present crops taken from photos of our testing chart, saved as JPEG files along with RAW files, used for the analysis above. primes, so pulling the focus ring back towards the camera engages manual focus mode and reveals a distance scale. And last let me point out the new lens-cap, which is made of aluminum and can be operated be the front of the cap so you can put it hassle-free on and off the lens, also if the lens-hood is mounted on top. This high-resolution, large-aperture zoom offers incredible versatility from wide angle to mid-range telephoto shots.