Awww, S**^%%#>>+� Mike! Why didn't I have this knowledge this before I [just] bought two of them? I used to be a long time Olympus guy, and do like their lenses. The Zuiko-G f/1.7 is legend for it's sharpness. I'm a sharpness freak. I thought this is for me! I just wanted a small, fast, crisp lensed and QUIET rangefinder, for crowd work...
I have read a lot about the Canon QL-17 GIII, and considered it, but it's clunkier and not as pretty, and somehow I just couldn't manage to get the wallet out when it was for a Canon... I recently bought two of those Olys more or less inadvertently. I bid on one on eBay, figured it was going to go too high for me, so as it got late, I bid on another. It was Nip and Tuck, but I won them both! Dang NAB it! Anyhow, I will clean both of them up and put a roll thru each and make my decision. One will win out, and I'll see how it performs. The other one goes back on eBay. What's the coating problem? Ghosting, loss of light, flaring? keith Mike Johnston wrote: > > > Then there's always the Olympus 35 SP rangefinder, with the Zuiko-G > > 1.7 lens, widely considered the 'poor man's Leica,' because of it's > > great optical performance. > > It may be a "great lens," but the coatings on it are so poor it's almost > useless IMHO. I'll take a Canon QL-17 GIII any day (and, in fact, did). > > Best coatings, by rank: > Pentax & Zeiss > Leica > Canon > Nikon > Olympus (*sucked* until about 1988, when it caught up to C/N) > > --Mike
