Zuiko 9-18mm f4-5.6ED is a good companion for E620. No?

Yarra Bank

Southern Cross Station

GPO

GPO

Ferries Wheel

Birrarung Mar

Yarra River

Melbourne Arial View

Melbourne Arial View

Anchor

Southern Cross Station

I had a short play with this lens last weekend. Adam from Camera House Camera Action generous enough to lend me this lens for a couple of hours with a little deal that I upload my personal thought here.

The lens is very light and I like the fact that the build quality is good and sturdy even tough it come from the standard lens family.

As I am just a hobbyist I am not going to talk about technical aspect of the lens or even talking specifically about the pixel peeping or whatsoever.

What I am going to show is just a series of photos that I manage to shoot the other day. Overall I am impressed with the sharpness of the images produced through this lens and it fit nicely too onto my E620.

Comparing the 9-18 with 7-14 it lost few degree of angle view but it still one of the widest lens available. I am sure this will be a must have lens for everyone who love wide angle and landscape photography.

I give 4 stars out of 5 to this lens.

Olympus E-P1 Commercial

New Olympus Micro 4/3 launch today.

Another leaked picture of the new Olympus and matching lenses.

Adobe RAW Support for E-620 & E-450

Adobe Labs have a beta version Camera RAW converter 5.4 available for download as well as an updated DNG converter.

Are Olympus and Panasonic lost?

YES, they need to look at their old maps and find their way.

I found these two 4/3 lens road maps. One from Olympus in 2003 and the other from Panasonic 2006.

This is interesting and very annoying. I am buying a Micro 4/3 camera and adapters simply  so I can get fast prime lenses by using old C Mount movie lenses. When the lenses I want should have been out four years ago.

I have heard a rumor that Olympus only have a small development team working on the 4/3 and micro 4/3 system. So they alternate their time on either developing bodies or lenses for a two year period.

So there have been more than enough bodies lately.

Give us the lenses you promised!

New Olympus Micro Four Thirds Pictures ?

These might be some images of the new top secret Olympus E-P1 (Digital Pen) which is to be launched on the 16th of June 2009. These came from a Chinese forum.

If these are the real thing. I think Olympus is on a winner here.

Olympus E-620 will it blend? Yes it will!