squirrel$$$bandit
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What are some of the fastest zoom lenses ever made? And what is the cause of the limitations in speed in zoom lenses?
Neare
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Olympus had the 35-100mm f/2.. I think that holds the record. But that was made specifically for the sensor. Generally I think it gets capped off at f2.8. My guess would be that the first 2.8 lens made would have been the 36-82mm f2.8 Zoomar.
Think so anyway.
Think so anyway.
FrozenInTime
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I used to have the olympus 14-35mm f/2 for 4/3.
An amazingly sharp lens even wide open.
'Yeah! But a great looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.'
The AF was slow and jittery - and manual focus was impossible on the tiny 4/3 viewfinder ( and the E-3 was the best 4/3 viewfinder ).
Donald.
An amazingly sharp lens even wide open.
'Yeah! But a great looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.'
The AF was slow and jittery - and manual focus was impossible on the tiny 4/3 viewfinder ( and the E-3 was the best 4/3 viewfinder ).
Donald.
Dwig
Well-known
The faster zooms are going to be for smaller formats. The cine/video world is used to f/1.6-2.0 lenses. Lenses as slow as f/2.8 are "slow". There are some f/1.4 zooms in that world. More in our world, the Panasonic LX-3 sports and f/2.0 (at wide) zoom, but again it has a rather small format sensor.