Panasonic 12-35f2.8x in end june


How about a poll on the kind of pricing you guys think the lens will cost here?

:D
 

zan82 said:
How about a poll on the kind of pricing you guys think the lens will cost here?

:D

No point in having one unless our puny market can determine price:)
 

Based on previous posts, do u all think $1400 is possible as street price? It will be tempting then.

I only worry it's not possible since 1000 pounds way above 1400 sing.
 

Haven't you heard me rant about why Olympus seemed to have dropped the ball and ceded a good number of high grade lenses to Panasonic?

U r right. Really feels tat way!

Actually, maybe this is a deliberate decision made by Olympus. If you look at what Panny is doing, they are basically replicating what Olympus had done before with the 14-45 (the old Oly kit lens from E500?), the 14-42, 7-14, and now the 12-35 and 35-100. Its like panasonic sort of sorted out the question of deciding what focal length lens to manufacture by simply following Olympus' 4/3 road map. On the other hand, Olympus having done all that for their 4/3 system, now seems to be more focused on primes for the m4/3 range, leaving panasonic to take up the slack on the zooms. Could it also be that Olympus is trying to revisit the lens range in the old OM series? I do not if this is the plan or just how things happen to turn out. And by doing so, they help to provide some product differentiation between m4/3 and 4/3. I know it does not make sense in that you should have more zooms in the less pro range, but then again, the counter argument is that if u want things small and good, primes is indeed the way to go versus an equivalent zoom.
 

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Actually, maybe this is a deliberate decision made by Olympus. If you look at what Panny is doing, they are basically replicating what Olympus had done before with the 14-45 (the old Oly kit lens from E500?), the 14-42, 7-14, and now the 12-35 and 35-100. Its like panasonic sort of sorted out the question of deciding what focal length lens to manufacture by simply following Olympus' 4/3 road map. On the other hand, Olympus having done all that for their 4/3 system, now seems to be more focused on primes for the m4/3 range, leaving panasonic to take up the slack on the zooms. Could it also be that Olympus is trying to revisit the lens range in the old OM series? I do not if this is the plan or just how things happen to turn out. And by doing so, they help to provide some product differentiation between m4/3 and 4/3. I know it does not make sense in that you should have more zooms in the less pro range, but then again, the counter argument is that if u want things small and good, primes is indeed the way to go versus an equivalent zoom.
Weren't there lots of OM Zooms? Some of which were constant aperture?
 

Actually, maybe this is a deliberate decision made by Olympus. If you look at what Panny is doing, they are basically replicating what Olympus had done before with the 14-45 (the old Oly kit lens from E500?), the 14-42, 7-14, and now the 12-35 and 35-100. Its like panasonic sort of sorted out the question of deciding what focal length lens to manufacture by simply following Olympus' 4/3 road map.

These are 35mm equivalents - 28-90, 14-28, 24-70 and 70-200 - popular focal lengths which almost all lens manufacturers will produce and sell in quantities,
 

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