Canon Lenses Quality
Can i get Lenses for the Olympus E-420 of similar quality to Canon L series lenses?
Or is there anything available close to the L series Quality?
Olympus sells Four-Thirds lenses in three categories: Super High Grade (SHG), High Grade (HG), and Standard.
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/lens/dea/products/lens/index.asp
High Grade lenses alone are probably good enough to match up with some of Canon’s Luxury lenses. The excellent Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 and 50mm f/2 Macro have been highly praised by reviewers while the 50-200mm and 11-22mm have gotten their fair share of attention as well amongst the community as well.
The Super High Grade lineup contains some of the fastest and sharpest zoom lenses around and every one of these lenses are as exceptional as they are expensive. They are practically second to none so I doubt any lens in this category will have trouble holding its own in a comparison with equivalent Canon L glass — except in price.
Olympus does have a smaller selection, but most of the common focal length range is covered by one zoom or another.
Canon Lenses Quality
The EF-S series of lenses, by Canon, are exceptional lenses applicable for Canon digital SLR cameras such as: the EOS 20D and Rebel models. Why? The key design feature aims to match the APS-C imaging sensor with the image circle. How? This matching objective is achieved by reducing distance between the rear of the lens and the focal plane, thus decreasing the size of the image circle.
The result? Canon’s EF-S lenses are more efficient in terms of: weight and cost of wide-angle lenses while ensuring superior image quality, resolution and contrast at all focal lengths.
As a member of the EF-S family of lenses, the 17-85 F4 IS USM is a strong performing wide-angle to telephoto lens. Its list of features include: Image Stabilization for hand-held situations; and is optically optimized for the digital SLR camera; a ring-type USM designed for fast and silent auto focus. The full-time manual focus in AF mode is also a useful addition.
The EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens provides a 5x zoom ratio and an angle of view equivalent to a 27-136mm lens on a 35mm camera. Also present in this lens is a glass-molded aspherical lens element with aspherical surfaces on both sides. The result, superb image quality through the full zoom range. The focusing distance is impressive at a distance of 12 inches at all focal lengths. Finally, the EF-S 17-85mm IS lens, when compared to the EF 28-135mm IS lens, is 5% shorter and 12% lighter, and accepts 67mm filters.
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Are Tamron brand camera lenses a good quality lens?
They are cheaper in price than the Canon lenses that I have looked at but I don’t know about their quality. I would be taking photographs to sell, so it must be a high quality lens in order for me to consider using it.
A good Tamron lens is better than a cheap lens made by any camera manufacturer. A good “brand name” lens is probably better than a comparable Tamron lens. (I hesitate to use that term, since Tamron is a good “brand name,” but you konw what I mean.)
Go to http://www.popphoto.com and search for lens reviews. They have many Tamron and Canon lenses in their data bank and you can probably find a direct comparison of the lenses you are considering.
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