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I need a good zoom telephoto lenses to work with my Leica Digilux 3. Can anyone advise me me please.....

[miami91]

I need a good zoom telephoto lenses to work with my Leica Digilux 3. Can anyone advise me me please.....

 

The Olympus Zuiko 50-200 mm is a fantastic lens -- sharp images and nice bokeh. You can also pair it with an Olympus 1.4x teleconverter, and in exchange for a loss of one stop the reach becomes 560 mm (in 35mm equivalence). It's a big lens, but any telephoto zoom is going to be large.

 

Jeff.

[miami91]

Here's a few shots to give you an idea of the characteristics of the Olympus Zuiko 50-200 lens. Please note that these are all at ISO800, and have not had noise reduction applied. So they're a little grainy (chroma noise particularly evident on cardboard box). I've only shot this lens around home and the office (owned it less than 3 months), and given the threat of lens shake with a lens this long, shooting wide open and with higher ISO is necessary to guarantee a shutter speed above 1/150 when indoors and/or in poor light.

 

The one of the shipping label (box from B&H) were taken in my office the day I received the lens! This gives a good indication of the very shallow depth of field (even on a 4/3 sensor).

 

Jeff.

 

All shots with Digilux3, Zuiko 50-200mm (100-400 mm equivalence)

 

 

 

f2.8, 1/20, 59mm, ISO 800.

 

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f4.9, 1/320, 70mm, ISO 800.

 

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f3.5, 1/160, 200mm, ISO 800.

 

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