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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 300mm f/4 IS Pro : Specifications and Opinions

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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 300mm f/4 IS Pro

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Lucashf

sent on January 11, 2023

Pros: Quality.... Image... focus....

Cons: Lens hood... weight... don't have it....

Opinion: Amazing lens.... Give spectacular images.... For me a ... if not the most beautiful Zuiko lens.... Maybe after the new 150-400 f4.5....but to try ... So much substance... Blurred a bit strong .... hood comfortable but delicate .... I must say that I immediately fell in love with this lens Do not try it ...... otherwise....

Arnaldo83

sent on November 15, 2022

Pros: Crazy quality (even at TA), tropicalized, colors, AF, programmable function key, bracket included in the price

Cons: big and heavy to be an M4/3 (it's exactly as big as a 300mm f/4 from FF), really fragile hood closure system

Opinion: What can I say? It is definitely not an "easy" lens, which serves in every kit, but, in its category, it does crazy things. Coupled with "generous" camera bodies (E-M1X or E-M1 with battery grip) in terms of ergonomics it seems to have a flagship FF with 600mm of focal length, but .... less than half the size! Beautiful colors (like the other Olympus PRO lenses, on the other hand), lightning-fast AF (on performing bodies, of course), robust, solid, tropicalized, with a minimum distance of MAF that makes it practically a macro (0.34x reproduction ratio, which with the crop factor of the m4 / 3 become 0.65x: practically for "large" subjects such as butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, reptiles, it replaces a macro lens without regrets!). What can I say: in terms of performance it is really a perfect lens. We come to the few cons: the dimensions are not small to be an m4/3 lens (as mentioned, it is exactly as large as a 300mm f / 4 from FF), but they are not such as to strain excessively (I am quite robust, but I tried to do several km with backpack and E-M1 III + BG + 300mm around the neck and I had no problems). It may seem like a fool, but the worst flaw of this lens is.... the hood! The closing method is really morons (three plastic teeth miiiiinuuuuscooooliiiiii, which are peeled only to look at them badly): but I say, you have at home the system of the hood of the 40-150mm f / 2.8 (a brainy thread if you do not know it, but then very comfortable and above all very stable): but you can not make one the same?! Apart from that, an amazing lens at a human price (in this era of 24-70mm at 2500€)

Blennius

sent on August 18, 2022

Pros: sharpness, bulk

Cons: nothing to report

Opinion: my specimen, is extremely sharp, and with the TC, makes better with the 2x, you do not notice the difference in comparison with the optics now, while with the 1.4x loses slightly .it suffers a bit on the medium long distances in the case of hot air ... but this I also notice with the canon 500f4 and DX2, Combined with the 1mx, it becomes a very performing and manageable set freehand in the wandering photographic hunt, has discrete capacity for close-up photo (an almost macro). The colors and contrasts are rendered very well, sometimes it reminds me of the Velvia....

MaxVax

sent on August 06, 2022

Pros: Amazing autofocus, image quality at the highest levels, lightness, price for what it's worth, very bright, impeccable construction, tropicalized

Cons: Bokeh a bit nervous, but just to find him a flaw.

Opinion: I bought this lens with the new OM1 and I must say that it is a deadly pairing. The autofocus of the OM1 finally enhances this lens that with the M1Mk3 seems in some cases uncertain. It wasn't the lens, it was the body. Its brightness allows you to keep fast times without having to raise the ISO recklessly. A pleasure to use it.

user210403

sent on May 12, 2021

Pros: Optical quality / relative lightness / construction

Cons: The lampshed is a little

Opinion: So far I'm using it with G9, but it deserves an Olympus body to make the best of it. The image quality is fantastic, superior to that of the best zooms for FF and APSC, above all it is already perfect at full opening, even with the tc 1.4x not known obvious signs of decline even at full opening (closing at f7.1 you still earn some). On G9 the minimum shooting time is 1/30, the stabilizer is not super quiet, but does not bother. It's built very well!!! The only element that distorts a little is the lampshed, which although comfortable as it can be folded directly onto the barrel, can tend to fit when it is extended. Beware of the focus ring, which also adjusts the autofocus or manual focus mechanism by going up and down (if one is not familiar with Olympus optics and if it is in the manual focus position it may think that the af does not work) It is not a normal 300 F4 for FF (such as the canon), but it is equivalent to a 600mm on FF or a 400mm on apsc, it means that over long distances it can compete with 600mm of apsc zooms. It can also benefit from the high-resolution shooting of m4/3 bodies, when possible, also useful for photographing over a very long distance. A big advantage of this 300 F4 is the very low weight, which makes it decidedly more comfortable and light to carry with you in the stray photo hunt compared to the 150-600 and even the 100-400,... you practically don't hear... With tc 1.4x instead, personally, it gives me the feeling of feeling more the weight and the footprint, nothing extreme, but I feel the difference. The blurry will not be exciting, but it is no less than the zoomons I use and I used on apsc. I absolutely recommend it (preferably used... since it doesn't cost cheap)

Massimobarbano

sent on April 28, 2017

Pros: Lightness image quality super solid construction

Cons: Nobody

Opinion: Purchased recently, outstanding optics! Accustomed ornAl 300 500 4 2.8 and Nikon seems to have in hand a compact but with sublime quality, with m1 mark 2 made quick and precise, silent focusing. Excellent for photographic hunting combined with the 1.4 multiplier loses almost nothing and you have a 840 very high quality with a featherweight

Walteralice1992

sent on October 22, 2016

Pros: EXCEPTIONAL OPTICS

Cons: NOBODY.

Opinion: I bought this lens on October 7 and dop various vicissitudes I could try it with some grandesoffisfazione.rnperfetto stabilizer, effective and very fast on the EM1 that with the handle and 'exceptional as manovrabilita'.rnin effects it has 4 600 mm fit very reduced, that I'm from the canon eOS system, and I've always used 600 4 is not, I have to sire, and that 'a huge leap forward, and virtually' as if you transported in the future, reduced weight and dimensions of 80%, q1ualita 'excellent optics in all respects, to f.4 and' a rnstarabiliante image cleaning, to 5.6 e'veramente to the top, I also used with the 1.4 and I must say that the loss of quality 'and inaudible, as well on 40/150, rnquindi for me and 'a fundamental optics for hunting fotografica.rnAltamente consigliabile.rnnNB.rnunica flaw the hood that you have to understand the operation, I pultroppo not reading the instructions carefully it was locked and I had to send him to care for sloccarlo.rnWalterrnvoto 10 / 10rnC

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