Amazing vintage zoom lens from the 1970's! One of the best!
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2022
- Today we are taking a closer look at the Olympus OM Zuiko MC 35-70mm f3.6! This is a fantastic vintage zoom that performs incredibly well! It's sharp, contrasty and produces gorgeous colors! One of the best zooms I've tried!
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Andre Kertesz in Paris using this zoom lens - bit.ly/3JWVugK
Song during video test - Breathing Planet by Doug Maxwell
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That last image with the tree and sun set was beautiful
Thank you!!
I love a zoom that extends when going wide. They are great for street photography, you can be standing next to people, zoom out to 35mm, and it looks to them like you're zooming in to something far away 🙂 I used this trick a lot with the Pentax DA16-45 and it's the reason I didn't like the 17-70 I replaced it with so much.
Very good point Juan. I never thought of that. This Zuiko will be very useful for street photography as well.
Great review!! Love this channel SOOOOO MUCH!!
Thank you so much!!
I love the format of your videos. Thank you so much for your hard work!!
Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback.
Your channel is suberbly well made as yours lens choosings. Thanks for share your passion with us! Vintage lens is life!
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your kind message. Vintage lens is life!
I have this lens. Very much agree with your comments. Love your pictures showcasing this Zuiko.
That’s great to hear! And thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate it!
Beautiful pics!
Thanks so much!!
Looking good! Thanks for this review
Cheers!
I have this lens and love love it.
Awesome!
Amazing video and channel, thanks!
Thank you so much!
Nice video again. Thanks
Thank you!!
Super video 👍👏 bravo!!!
Thank you so much!!
Another great video, thanks!
Thank you!!!
@@VintageOptiks no really, beside the cool lens you present in each video, it is a pleasure
the presentation, design, the carefully chosen music, of course the pictures etc.
Definitively one of my favorite channels
Best
Andres a.k.a. munropark
@@1605munro Thank you so much for your kind message Andres! I greatly appreciate it.
Great presentation. Hope to get this lens for my Fujichrome X-T2.
Thank you! It’s a fantastic lens. I hope you’ll enjoy it if you get it for your XT2.
@@VintageOptiks Close call. Almost bought the F4 plastic fantastic.
Great video, makes me want one, but very tough to find.
Thank you. Unfortunately it’s getting pretty hard to find this lens at affordable prices. I hope you can find a copy and try it out. It’s a fantastic lens!
For m4/3 sensors, the exceptional definition @70mm = 73 pairs/mm means a 1971 pixels vertical definition (13.5 x 73 x 2=1971 pixels).
So you get more than a rich HD (1080 pixels). You can try 4K if you need to. Bokeh is good, neutral, not disturbing, but does not have the fascinating character of some monster zooms.
Bokeh must be more impressive on Full Frame for sure.
Une autre superbe revue .Olympus à fait de nombreux très bons zoom ,les 35-70 sont tous bons ou très bon ,le 35- 105 est très très bon je l'utilise avec mon fuji xt2 en apsc ou il devient l'équivalent d'un ~ 50-150 ~un bon petit tele zoom polyvalent. Mon préféré reste le 28-48 à peine plus gros et plus lourd qu'un 50 mm mais avec un grand angle , très bon à toutes le focales avec de belles couleurs bien contrastées.Je l'utilise en full frame pour le paysage en association avec un 19 mm en focale fixe.
Very very nice review ,I am a zuiko vintage Lens lover.
Have a good day.
Thank you so much! I’m a big Zuiko fan as well! Glad you enjoyed the review. Take care!
I don't know when you went to Monument Valley, but I went pre-season, had perfect weather, stayed at the lodge in the valley, and really had the place to myself. I'd hit the Goulding's restaurant, and it was so slow, my Navajo waitress sat with me and we talked about many things....
I went to Monument Valley at the end of November in 2021. One of my favorite places in the U.S. I also stayed and had dinner at Goulding’s 😁
Thanks for this. Prices are remarkably low still.
You’re welcome. Glad to hear that prices haven’t changed much.
I always wanted to buy this lens, but there is not much info about it on the internet and it is not that easy to find. I have the Minolta MD 35-70/3.5 Macro which is superb! I took that zoom on a trip to Turkey and I found it incredibly versatile and useful. As an Olympus and Minolta fan I would like to see a comparison between both lenses.
It's true - there is not that much info about this lens, which is why I decided to feature it here on the channel. I love making videos about lesser known lenses. It's great to hear that you also appreciate vintage zooms and that you enjoyed using the Minolta MD 35-70mm f3.5, which is another fantastic lens! Definitely one of the best 35-70mm vintage zooms out there!!
Two other top end lenses are the Minolta MD Zoom 35-70mm 3.5 macro and Carl Zeiss Varios Sonnar 35-70mm 3.4.
I only have the Minolta.
For sure!
Thank you for this review. I have this lens (and should use it more often 😉).
You are welcome! That’s awesome you have this lens! Enjoy it!
@@VintageOptiks Yes, I only use Olympus OM Zuiko lenses on my Sony A7(s), from the small 21mm 3.5 to the mighty 350 mm 2.8.
Sounds great! I love them as well. All the OM Zuiko lenses I’ve reviewed so far have all been incredible!
@@VintageOptiks I started with an Olympus OM1 in, I think, 1974. So it is pure nostalgia. 😉
A Sony A7 mark1 is the closest to a digital OM2.
@@nicokremers7150 That's amazing that you've been using OM Zuikos since the 70's!!
nice review again ! Will try to find this lens. I use two vintage 35-70's Tamron 35-70 f3.5 and Nikkor 35-70 f3,5-4.5
Thank you! It’s a fantastic zoom! I hope you’ll enjoy it if you try it. How do you like the Tamron and the Nikkor zooms you mentioned?
@@VintageOptiks Tamron is not bad, nice rendering and great close up capabilities suited for Ir. Less so for UV. The Nikkor seems contrastier and sharper and is a bit compacter ( f4.5 at 70mm) also good for ir. I'll make some comparison images soon. ( Z7 has a thinner sensor stack, Sony cameras are very demanding for compact lenses, especially for wide angles.
Sounds good. Thank you for sharing your findings about the two zooms. Cheers!
I own similar vintage short zoom Nikkor 43-86 f3.5. Same concept but a bit narrower than yours. Equally stunning quality.
Sounds great! Would love to try it at some point. There are so many amazing vintage zooms out there!
I have the 3.5-4.5 which is fantastic sharp
That’s great to hear. I haven’t tried it yet.
@@VintageOptiks The f3.6 is said to be still better though.
1:06 Great to see there have been masters of photography (Andre Kertesz, the man who believed behind the camera there should be someone who wants to express himself, with some feeling) actually opt to use zoom and not prime!
But then at that price tag, one had to sell a car to get it!
I'm just wondering how inferior were the F4 or the variable F3.5-4.5 versions of this OM lens?! or rather, how would they be compared to this gem.
Thanks a lot for sharing such great content.
It is definitely refreshing to see Kertesz using a zoom especially this late in his career!! I personally really enjoy using vintage zooms, because a lot of them are actually great! And as I mentioned in the video a lot of the pro zooms from back in the day were super expensive, oftentimes more expensive than prime lenses. It’s amazing that now we can try these excellent lenses for just a fraction of their original price! Nowadays zooms are considered inferior and many people don’t ever bother trying them, but I think that many of them are very capable lenses with great optics and unique qualities.
Not sure how this Zuiko compares to the other two 35-70mm versions of this lens. Haven’t tried them yet.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying the content of the channel. Thank you!!
Glad you made it to the Arches and Bryce Canyon (if I'm not mistaken). How do you think this zoom compare to the f4 version? Great vid - thank you.
Southern Utah is amazing - unreal scenery! I haven’t tested the f4 version yet, so I can’t say. Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it!
Also, I need to find this guys travel agent to have plan a better, more scenic trip out west the next time I go.
This is a great video with beautiful pictures you have taken with this lens. 3.6 is not a common aperture for a zoom. Interesting.
Thank you so much! Yeah f3.6 is a very odd aperture. I haven’t seen it in any other lens so far.
Just got the smaller 3.5-4.5. I've read that it's a close 2nd to this lens, plus it has the built in macro capability and the thing is tiny for a zoom lens. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for the review on the 3.6.
That's cool you got the smaller 3.5 - 4.5 version.
I haven't tried it yet, but it's supposed to be a very good lens as well. Enjoy it.
The only thing that this lens is missing, is parfolcal ability. A great piece of glass indeed,i'm happy with mine. Very nice video and fantastic shots!
I'm curious in what you think of the 28-48 strange zoom 😁
Thanks so much!! I agree, if it was parfocal then it will be on another level! But it’s still an amazing lens! Glad to hear that you also love it. I haven’t tried the 28-48mm zoom. Have you?
@@VintageOptiks i have to try it seriously one of these days but looking at some random shots that i've taken,it looks good to me,i have to check it distortion wise. Maybe i'll upload some shots on insta 😉
Sounds good! I’m always curious about what other lenses people have or have tried! There are so many great vintage lenses out there!
Any tips on getting an adapter with no give? My lens wiggles in a fotodiox OM to EF mount.
You can try the adapters made by Urth. They are around $60 and have great reputation.
I, by coincidence, recently picked up the f4 version of this lens. I have not shot with it yet, but from what I read it is a cheaper version of the f3.6. Do you have any knowledge of these other Zuiko variants of the 35-70?
I haven’t tested the f4 version yet, so I can’t say how it compares. Would love to hear what you think of it once you try it out.
I have to ask. What is the music played at the intro of each chapter? I'm guessing it's from some TV show back in the early 70s.
Unfortunately I don't know who made it. I found it on Internet Archive a long time ago and I only have that little snippet.
Gosh i need this background music from the beginning and at 00:13 seconds lol can you let me know who the band is?
Unfortunately I have no idea who the band is.
I just bought this lens at the bargin price of $49 AUD because it had fungus. Its all cleaned up and ready to go when my adaptor arrives. I do have a question regarding ibis. I'm a bit confused how to set this on my oly em10 mk2 because its not a fixed focal length. How do overcome this? Do you need to set the ibis each time you change the focal length? Great vid btw 👌
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Wow, that's a great price for this awesome zoom! Regarding IBIS - yes, I would recommend setting up the IBIS every time you change focal lengths. Sometimes you can get away with it if there isn't that big of a difference in focal lengths, but for the most part it's best to try to keep up with it especially if you are shooting hand held at slow shutter speeds.
Cheers!
Hi . can u provide more links to the helicoil adapter please?
Hello, I updated the link for the helicoid adapter.
@@VintageOptiks you’re the best! Hope to hear more videos from you soon !!
I've just bought the constant f4 version of this lens thinking it was the one you reviewed. It was quite poorly described on eBay so I would properly have a case for sending it back. I paid forty English pounds for it. Do you think I should stick with the purchase and how does it compare to the lens you described?
I personally think that it’s a bit too high of a price to pay for the f4 version. It’s a decent lens but it’s not as good as the one I reviewed.
@@VintageOptiks I've had the f4 version for a few weeks now. At first, I was thinking of returning it as it was not the one I thought it was, namely the f3.6. However, I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. Color, contrast, and sharpness are all excellent and it has that definite Zuiko look. The only bad thing I've noticed so far is a bit of blue /green fringing in high-contrast areas but it is very easy to remove on the computer. I think I will hold onto it for a bit and keep an eye out for the f3.6 version. Are there any really bad Zuiko lenses? Thank you for your reviews, they are excellent and very well-produced.
@@neilmontgomery3470 Glad you are happy with the f4 version. Vintage Zuiko lenses are awesome. I have yet to find a bad one.
Looks gorgeous! Have you tried the 35-80 2.8?
Yeah it’s a great zoom lens! I haven’t tried the 35-80 f2.8. Prices for that lens are really crazy.
@@VintageOptiks Yeah totally. I've heard it's supposed to be one of, if not the the best vintage zoom, but it's hard to find any footage since it's so rare.
Havent they come up with a 28-85mm? I find the extra range quite useful on MFT camera.
Olympus made the OM Zuiko 35-80mm f2.8 zoom which has an ED element. It’s a rare and expensive lens. There is also the OM Zuiko 28-48mm f4 zoom and also the OM Zuiko 35-105 f3.5-4.5.
@@VintageOptiks thanks! The 35-105mm is tempting in terms of focal length... I need to check if you have tested it :) I have been spending too much on old glass recently... 🤣
You are welcome. I haven’t tested it yet and I’m curious how it might perform. Definitely a very useful range.
@@VintageOptiks about to pull the trigger on one... Along with a Kiron... I promise I won't buy lenses again after that! 😉😁
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Haha, I've been saying that for awhile and it never seems to happen :)
Btw have you tried soviet lens? I got jupiter 37A 135mm f3.5 and adore it! Very sharp and giving film like colours, a bit of grain and good bokeh.
A have a few Soviet lenses but I haven’t tried the Jupiter 37A. It sounds like a great lens! Thanks for sharing. There are so many great 135mm lenses out there.
Impressively, this lens is made w/ 7 elements in 7 groups, which is shocking for a zoom to have so little glass.
Very good observation. It’s amazing what they were able to accomplish with only 7 elements.
@@VintageOptiks The 35-70 f3.6 Has 10 elements in 8 groups! S-Zuiko 35-70mm f/4.0 and the late S-Zuiko 35-70mm f/3.5~f/4.8 have 7 elements in 7 groups
@@zhekalis86 Yes that is correct. I mentioned it in the video, but then I got confused form the person's comment. Thanks for clarifying.
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LOL