Four-Thirds investment - need advice

[Kid Shotter]

Try 20 (including those officially announced but not yet released).

Around 30 is include Leica,Sigma and all the announce yet to be release lens.

 

[Mikefellh]

Sorry, YOU said "Olympus", and that's what we were talking about, not Leica and not Sigma.

OLYMPUS has announced a super-wide "standard" lens but it's not planned until 2008.

 

[Kid Shotter]

Affordable wide angle lens won't affect me too much since i use tele more.

 

[Mikefellh]

Tele is easier to obtain with four-thirds due to the 2x multiplication factor...getting wider is a lot harder and more expensive (so far).

For instance I own in OM mount 80-200, 500mm, and a OM 2x converter giving me up to 1000mm. I tried an OM 16mm fisheye, but it looked just as wide as the 14-45mm set at 14mm, and the fisheye effect was cancelled out! I also own some OM primes, 50mm and 28mm.

 

[Kid Shotter]

If you want a fisheye without buying ZD Fisheye is buying a Peleng 8mm F3.5 Fisheye(~250 US$) + M42-4/3 adapter(30US$ on ebay).

 

[drakon09]

I think mike already knows all that.

 

[Mikefellh]

Yup, I even know of two Peleng dealers in Canada...one in Toronto (the city where I live), and one in Ottawa (where a former girlfriend lives).

BUT, unlike the Peleng the lens that Olympus has announced ISN'T a prime...it's supposed to be an 8-16mm zoom.