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I really wanted to include some people shots, seeing how it rendered faces, even if that isn’t a practical use for the lens, but I didn’t have an opportunity to work that out.Īlso, all images were exported from Lightroom using Screen/Normal sharpening. Apologies in advance if I didn’t test something as you would have. Others are hand held, sometimes with me leaning against a post. All images were made with the Olympus OMD M5 Mk II and the Panasonic/Leica 100-400 unless otherwise indicated. In general, this means a few tweaks in Lightroom, 90% of the time less than one minute’s work. From my reading, and brief testing on my own, the best option is to turn IBIS off and use the lens IS, so that is what I did.Īlso, Steve told me to process as I normally would. Unlike a Panasonic body mated to the lens, sadly the Oly IBIS and the lens IS do not speak the same language.
I’m sure most readers know the camera has IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization) and the lens has its own IS.
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There have been times where I approached a sitting bald eagle with my full frame body and 400mm, and by the time I got close enough to make them fly away for a glorious picture, I can’t get the whole bird in the frame – too close! At an effective 600mm, I just can’t count on being the right distance from my subject.
“Zoom with your feet” really doesn’t work when say you are standing on a beach looking out, or trying to catch a flying bird. But for me, these primes are impractical. I’d bet my 401k that the Oly 300mm will outperform the Panasonic 100-400mm handily at the same focal length. I considered this for a short time, as I prefer Olympus products and given the price of this glass, it’s going to be a fine prime performer. We all know Olympus was building and releasing their 300mm prime at about the same time. If you want to double the focal lengths you see given the body’s crop factor that is fine by me.
Also, to be practical when I give a focal length, it will be what LR reports and is on the lens body, i.e. And all of these are real world, no tripods involved (well, one exception). My testing was around the kinds of things I like to shoot, which don’t involve test patterns. I know many of you would do your own tests differently than mine.
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Before we get into the pictures, I want to state that I’m not a professional reviewer, or even photographer, just an enthusiast. Some of the images are those subjects I enjoy shooting, and some are just for the review factor.Įnter the Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm! Image stabilized, effective focal length (long end) of 800mm. It’s spring time right now and there are a lot of beautiful flowers to shoot here. BTW, below I’ll do a few comparison shots with both the 100-400mm and the 40-150mm. But even these large specimens of the bird world are pretty small subjects. This was with the 40-150mm, so fully zoomed in we are at 300mm effective. So the first paces I put the Oly through were to shoot these birds, and its AF performance was excellent. Living where I do on an island near Seattle, I have a lot of opportunities to shoot interesting birds like Bald Eagles and Great Blue Herons. It’s a high performing camera, with the only limit (for my use) being the noise at higher ISO’s. Using the Olympus kit has been very rewarding. Knowing Steve had always been an Olympus fan, I followed those reviews, and when the OMD M5 II was released I jumped into the Oly pool. Although Fuji did a stellar job of repairing it quickly on their dime, this unnerved me and I sold that kit off. The camera also failed on a trip, the first time that had ever happened to me. It’s AF was exceedingly poor (since improved I’m told). Somehow I just never warmed up to this system.
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I found I was only using my M9 when going street shooting.įast forwarding, when the Fuji XT series came out I dove in.
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And although I became pretty proficient at both manual focusing, there are still those instances where you have one second to get a shot and it’s lucky indeed to have pre-focused accurately. But I do enjoy telephoto work as well, and certainly that’s not the M9’s forte. Partly with the excellent information I got here on Steve’s site, I got a Leica M9 setup and used this for quite a few trips. I have had a number of 70-200’s, as well as 300mm and 400mm L primes.Ībout five years ago I wanted to get into a smaller kit for travel work. (From Steve: Thank you Bob)!Īs background, I have been shooting digitally since 2001, with Canon bodies and a wide array of L lenses. I didn’t start off with the idea of writing a review but as I began getting to know this lens I thought it might be a nice addition to Steve’s excellent collection of resources for us enthusiasts. I recently acquired the Panasonic Leica 100-400mm lens to go along with my Olympus OMD-M5 Mk II kit. The Mighty Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm Lens Review