When it comes to Olympus, the answer 40-150 / 2.8. A tip lens at an unbeatable price.
Or the older, much more favorable, but also significantly fainter full plastic-Zoom in the same focal length range.
That leaves the Olympus offered already in the second generation respectively and Panasonic Super zoom, and just recently, the long-awaited Tammy 14-150.
Spare a road changing, but "worth" the overlooking the imaging performance, the system-related need to remain at such a zoom range always behind those of 1A zooms smaller setting (but just how much)?
In any case I was pleasantly surprised.
First impression: the lens is surprisingly compact and light compared to the Panasonic 14-140 (OK, first generation) downright tiny, still looks very solid processed, even when fully extended wobbles nothing ,. And it has a Zoomlock who had the Panasonic also done well.
And after the first few images is clear, at least in the copy that I have caught (the Sereinstreuungen are supposed to be generally quite vigorously at Super zoom) there's little to complain about.
Sure, especially the sharpness in the edge region, and from open aperture, the 12-40 / 2.8 is a completely different construction, but Tammy adheres as bravely with over the entire zoom range already open pretty good, sometimes excellent central focus, also the border area is still OK, slight dimming brings centrally hardly, on the edge already rather improve.
Vignetting, distortion? Yes, both available mainly in wide angle, but not really disturbing and are already out of the camera (E-M1) corrected out almost perfectly in JPG.
The Bokeh is also surprisingly harmonious for a superzoom, just in this discipline can zoom yes otherwise rather not shine so.
Who is there something to complain about, then at the chromatic aberration, especially at least Olympus cameras CAs auskorrigieren at third-party lenses probably not automatically.
But since I've seen far worse, and the. With lenses with a much smaller setting Where it really bothers me, but it is also quickly corrected by image processing.
So the MFT premiere of superzoom specialist Tamron is the (so far) best superzoom in the MFT system?
In principle, yes, at least if one does not need a stabilization in the lens, so it has an Olympus camera, and can likewise be used to MFT per adapter FT-superzoom Panasonic / Leica outer leaves before, but that does indeed priced in a completely different league (and in a different weight class).
On the go and if it does not depend on the last bit of sharpness, which will probably be my Tammy 14-150 standard lens of the E-M1, and when things are "a little more" (precisely even when mitzuschleppenden weight) may be, there's yes still 12-40.
