Olympus M.Zuiko 300mm f/4 Pro Review
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2016
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Nice video for people who are not familiar with the system. I shifted from Canon to Olympus system about 3 years back for bird and wildlife photography. I just upgraded to EM-1X with the same combination. It's an amazing experience now. But EM-1 II is also a very capable camera. Most of my good captures are with that.
Thanks a lot for the wonderful video.
Thanks for the comprehensive review. You addressed all my concerns about using this with my GX-8, so I've ordered one of these lenses, and the MC14.
Thank you Mathieu great review.
Thank you for review, Mathieu !
I want to point out an important thing : the tripod collar of this lens weights 200 grams. So if you remove the tripod collar, you get a lighter lens (1270 grams).
Yes it's not the lightest collar, but to be fair it makes little difference in real world use.
So for your soccer shots, you found that the AF wasn't good enough? I was thinking of getting the lens as a compliment to a 300 on full frame.
Not with the first generation E-M1, but things have improved with the E-M1 mark II.
Thank You again a great Lesson :)
EM1 or OM1 is good for action shots (sports & wildlife)?
Great review as always.
+Howie Mudge thanks!
I was confused by the stabilization syncing on sensor and lens. I think you said that if one mode was on the other one cannot be disabled/or has to stay on. Does that mean you always have to use them together?
Yes with an Olympus body and Olympus lens this lens, you can't separate them, sensor and optical stabilisation always work together.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons ok thanks.
Em1 ibis is #1
G9 100-400mm dual ibis is truly the best for the money
Just got my panasoinic 100-400mm back
Super sharp its not to heavy on my g9
2 hrs shooting birds no problem
This is a beast. I need it so badly, but it is out of my budget :)
Sell your stuff you don't need and get it
Thanks for the great, clearly put review. I have been looking forward to seeing this lens for ages. And I am super excited that it has Optical Stabilizer as I use Panasonic camera bodies. I have no doubt it will be super sharp and will perform well. The price is steep but it it a premium pro lens. Keep up the good work :-)
+Steve Ferneyhough Thanks Steve!
Nice video and nice om-d gloves. ;-) where they from? Greetings Marcus
+mrdiger170871 thanks. I got them at a press event in Prague last year for the E-M5 II launch.
Good review
Nikon 300mm lens on a Olympus all lenses seems to be a the center focus area it would a great experiment.
Hi Mathieu, I have a question to you! I recently bought a new Olympus 300mm f4. An excellent lens. However, I realized that looking at the lens from the front, the 9 diaphragm blades do not form a circular shape, but rather a very oval shape. In my other lenses, such as the Leica 100-400, the shape is circular. How is your lens, circular or oval? Do you recommend an exchange? Does the oval shape indicate any production failure? Thank you very much.
Is the iris fully closed? Are you looking at it without being connected to the camera, or with the camera turned off? With small apertures it is not uncommon to loose the circular shape.
Mathieu Gasquet the Iris is almost closed. I’m looking at it without being connected to the Camera. Oval form in this case is normal?
Mathieu Gasquet I mean, seeing with the camera off, or lens off the camera, I can see all the blades and just a small, oval opening.
Yes it's normal, it just means that the aperture remains closed when there is no power. You're probably seeing what f/22 looks like.
Mathieu Gasquet An oval f22, in this case. Thanks for the answer. I was in doubt if it was normal to be oval and not circular.
Mathieu, you have a lot of experience with both Olympus and Panasonic cameras. In one of your reviews you say that Olympus colors are different and probably better than Panasonic. Can you elaborate about this?
By the way, I always take RAW images and process them in Capture One. Thanks!
+Rony Zmiri that is true especially with the JPGs and the colour profiles. If you work with the RAW files you can match the colours more easily.
Thanks you Mathieu! BTW, I very much enjoy your channel))
+Rony Zmiri Thanks, appreciate that ;)
Very curious. This is not an IF lens (Internal Focusing). Hence, how long is the lens at each extreme - Infinity and 1.4m??
+Chris Baude it does have internal focusing (the lens doesn't extend when focusing).
+Mathieu Gasquet (MirrorLessons) Merci Mathieu! That is wonderful news! We'll look forward to checking out the lens when in my local area.
+Chris Baude Great. Let me know how do you like it.
Why did you tape the Olympus Logo at the soccer game?
+Konsti K. (xKoNsTix) because the lens wasn't announced yet so I taped everything ;)
great video..
I read that the new 100-400 leica panny have an aperture of f5/6 at 300mm..1stop slower. But that lens is more versatile with the wide coverage and also being much smaller and lighter than this Oly. And yeah..the price too..!! I'm an EM-5 II user, and I love the Oly lenses, but here I think Panny nailed the balance..! I'm looking forward for the Panny review..
+Rahul Vj yes the Panasonic lens is more versatile and I am very curious to check the optical quality since it is designed by Leica. The Olympus lens is a different beast. Being a prime lens it is more specific and aimed to certain genres only. It's not easy to use a fixed 300mm lens unless you really know what you want to shoot. But the quality is really good.
+Mathieu Gasquet (MirrorLessons) yeah that's true..!!
+Rahul Vj since you asked, here is the Pana 100-400mm review: czcams.com/video/Moo1DcsOH40/video.html
Mathieu Gasquet
wow, thank you..! great review btw...:)
Is it good for birds in flight? Heard its not good enough..
+Charlie the lens is excellent for BIF, it's more a matter of which m4/3 camera you going to use with it. I got the best results with the E-M1.
i like ur feed. always very nice. there is 1 correction i want to mention: the EM1 has no phase detection base focus with MFT lenses. that only the case with the old FT lenses.
The E-M1 uses phase detection in C-AF with MFT lenses.
Ahaaaaa... i c... thank u four ur kind answer !!
1/11/22 Thank you for this information
Hello,
I want to buy a Mirrorless camera which will deliver excellent IQ and 4k Video,I find olympus has excellent lens options can we use this lenses with other micro 4/3 cameras ?
can u suggest a good mirrorless cam for Travel and wildlife ?
+Travel-O-Graphy yes the lens is compatible with Panasonic cameras too. I would suggest the G7 or the GX8 that do excellent 4k video. The GH4 is also an excellent choice if you want more advanced video features.
How is Fuji Xt1 vs Olympus em1?
+Travel-O-Graphy if you want good video quality and 4K, they are not the camera for you. The E-M1 full HD is decent, the X-T1 is not good (aliasing, moiré, lack of sharpness etc).
photo is my concern howz quality of gx8 vs em1?
+Travel-O-Graphy well you mentioned 4k at the beginning so that's why I gave that answer. For photo, the GX8 and E-M1 are almost identical. The only advantage of the GX8 is a little bit more resolution. The IBIS of the E-M1 is better and I also prefer its ergonomics and colour rendition on the JPGs.
Nice do the GX8 inbody stabilization work body and lens) with olympus 300 mm lens
+mrsyclone no the Dual IS is not compatible, only the IS of the lens works.
OK...did you have chance to test panasonic 100-400mm?
+mrsyclone not yet but I hope to test it as soon as possible ;)
Ok Thanks Looking forward 100-400 Panasonic..
+mrsyclone here it is: czcams.com/video/Moo1DcsOH40/video.html
The lens looks great. But i consider the 100-400 pana. Both are too expensive
Both are great lenses, but I would give an edge to the Olympus lens because it's a full stop faster at 300mm. And if that's not enough reach, you can use the MC-14 and MC-20 teleconverters on it.
bokeh might be bad because its f4 and crop factor of 2, difficult to get creamy bokeh in that conditions.
not really, the distance to the subject and distance between subject and background, is equally important, you can get great results with this lens. Don't just blindly think f4 is bad and f1.4 is good for bokeh.
bravo
Mathieu, je pense que cette optique est supérieure aux capacités actuelles de la gamme Olympus. Ai-je tort? Quand le E-M1 mark II sortira cet automne, il serait bon de refaire le test, sur les bords d'un circuit de course par exemple, ou encore dans un stade de foot.
+Patrick Blart c'est fort possible. Le E-M1 II sera très probablement meilleur en ce qui concerne la mise au point en continu.
Mathieu Gasquet Pour justifier une pareille dépense, il est dans l'intérêt d'Olympus de l'être. À suivre...
A 400mm 5.6 on aps-c would be equivalent to this lens but at a much lower price point.
Entry level lenses maybe, but no pro primes.
1:53 you are the first reviewer I have seen that has gotten that right. 300mm is still 300mm just that we get the same Angle as the 600mm. Good to see someone that bothers to do the research instead of Showing what an ignoramus they are. 🙂📷👍
MC-20...! ;)
Great review. Bokeh is extremely disappointing. It would be better with f/1.8 or f/2 at least
f/2 would be great but would make the lens much larger and more expensive.
5:23 tooo noisy??!
Why are you showing Nikon 600 mm f/4 for comparison? This is not a 600 mm lens, it is a 300 mm lens. If you put Nikon 300 mm lens on the Olympus, you will have the same field of view. The "600 mm field of view" is a function of the smaller sensor. This is potentially misleading, and I won't even get into equivalence issues here.
+mountainhobo I say that the Olympus lens gives the same field of view as the 600mm on a full frame DSLR which is correct.
But this is a 300 mm lens. Crop FF from 40 MP A7RII or a 36 MP D810 with a 300 mm lens, and you will have the same result. That is all that MFT buys you here - crop. Light weight of MFT is mostly negated by the size and weight of the lens.
+mountainhobo yes but a m4/3 user might be interested in a super telephoto lens for the camera/system he already owns. He doesn't necessarily care about cropping from a 40MP sensor found on a different brand/system. Otherwise any kind of comparison becomes valid at this point.
Understood, but even more so the comparison to 600 mm does not hold, because if an MFT user put that 600 mm lens on his camera (since as you say, he is not going to use an FF camera), he would have a completely different FOV. Therefore it would be a 300 mm lens that would provide him with the same experience.
+mountainhobo the most simple way for me is to analyse two lenses designed for their respective camera systems that give the same angle of view. That doesn't mean that one is better than the other but it is just to show that the smaller lens can have some advantage in terms of size, weight and prize in comparison to the full frame combo (because 35mm format is always the reference and I didn't decided that). Of course from here there are many options we could discuss. For example that 600mm on an APS-C DSLR will have a crop factor (900mm) which means an even narrower angle of view. DSLRs also have different teleconverters that gives more possibilities that what the M4/3 system has. But in this case it would probably be better to write a separate article or video to analyse all this :)
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Nice Video! I get the same!
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