It's a large lens and grows somewhat long at the 200mm setting ... fitted to the E-1 with lens hood fitted and sitting fully collapsed next to the Leica 14-50:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/oly50-200_lens.jpg Controls are large and work beautifully smoothly, I imagine that with the E-1 + grip it would be nicely stabilized, but I only very rarely shoot with anything much longer than 50mm without a tripod. I've only taken two pictures with the 50-200 hand-held, one of them a portrait at about 70mm that is very sharp with pleasing bokeh. Godfrey On Sep 20, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Bob W wrote: > They're with the Zeiss - I don't have the Oly to play with. How is it > to hand-hold? > > Bob > >>> >>> http://www.web-options.com/CZ/ >> >> Are these taken with the Zeiss lens or the Olympus? >> >> I have the Olympus ZD 50-200/2.8-3.5. It is an excellent >> performer and >> I love the fact that it has a good, solid tripod mounting >> foot. While >> I don't use such long lenses all that often, every time I've >> gone out >> shooting with it I've gotten excellent results. As the only >> long lens >> I use anymore, used with and without 1.4x teleconverter, it was well >> worth its price. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
