Olympus E500 telephoto lens

[Clart]

My mum has just bought an E500 and wants to know what is a good telephoto lens, think she's got a 17.5-45mm that came with it.

 

[unofficialPete]

Olympus lenses are f***ing expensive generally beside the two 'kit' lenses: http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/cat19.html

So the Olympus ZUIKO DIGITAL 40-150mm 1:3.5-4.5 is probably the only choice on a budget, not sure what third party lenses work with the E system but Sigma/Tamron/Tokina may do some better value lenses.


Remember the small sensor gives a x2 crop...

 

[Rhino172]

I got a sigma 55-200 for my e400 (four thirds fit)

tis very good, great zoom but I wouldn't call it telephoto tho

 

[unofficialPete]

I got a sigma 55-200 for my e400 (four thirds fit)

tis very good, great zoom but I wouldn't call it telephoto tho

Thats 400mm, not bad reach :clown:

 

[ukaskew]

^^^ I was about to say, how is that not telephoto?! I max out at 200mm!

 

[Rhino172]

you sure??

zoomed right in on the moon...no cropping or anything and I get this...

while I'm at it...anyone know what this red dot is? I assume another planet...it's on a few of my moon pics...(I drew the box round it! lol)

 

[unofficialPete]

hmm lets compare

You have a 400mm field of view and I have 280mm x1.6 = 448mm field of view (oops I thought you had more before I did the maths lol)

Thinking some more, can't compare the size of the moon either as yours shoot 4:3 and mine 3:2 oops

And the red dot is a 'hot pixel', give it a google, its common on long exposure shots.

 

[ukaskew]

you sure??

zoomed right in on the moon...no cropping or anything and I get this...

To be fair the moon is about 238,863 miles from earth

For 'normal' stuff 400mm is pretty darn long, average telephoto is 200-300mm.

 

[McBunny]

taken with a 300mm focal length on a 1.6 crop so 480mm but its been croped

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