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| sent on 13 Ottobre 2025
Pros: Lightweight, sharp, economical
Cons: considering the cost I don't know
Opinion: I have owned this lens for a long time, but I have never given it the opportunity to prove itself to me; I used to put other long or fixed zooms in front of it, even vintage, but I didn't trust this very light, very cheap, slightly dark object... It ended up that I put it in the photographic kit of the second house together with the Olympus e-m10 II and a couple of other lenses that, yes, if ever I had to take some photos and I didn't have anything else, maybe completely without it I wouldn't find myself. I wasn't supposed to photograph a musical event, otherwise I would have brought other equipment from home, but then and there I collect what I have and go. Given the circumstances I had to rely on the 40-150 and shoot at least at 3200 iso, but most of the time at 6400 iso, stuff I didn't think I would ever dare to do with that camera there and that sensor there. I feared disasters. And instead. I found an embarrassing amount of "right" shots, with the blur I wanted and the details I didn't expect, a general quality that has nothing to do with the weight and economic value of the photographic material used, but much, much higher. Separating the merits of both (I will write about the camera body elsewhere), the lens has given a superlative proof, much superior to the poor reputation that accompanies it (the "plasticone"), in terms of sharpness, precision of the zoom and colors, very neutral; It's clear that if you need a wider aperture, oh well, it doesn't have it, there's nothing to do, and the bokeh is made more of soft gradations than of precise detachment from the subject, but at full aperture it's already very usable. The Panaleica 35-100 (to say about a lens I have and with which I can compare it) is better, not much, but it is, but it is heavier, less long and costs 6/7 times more; The mere fact that a comparison between the two gives me food for thought is already significant. In short, a nice surprise. |
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