Found Olympus Stylus zoom 28-80 DX - mju zoom wide 80, any good?

David Hughes said:
Hi,

It's all very confusing isn't it? especially when some one in the USA wants help and we don't know which model he means.
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It is even worse, as they created very minor variations, sometimes by country or store chain - globally there must be more than a hundred names for the mju::II series, which were at the core only three to five camera bodies with about as many lens configurations.

Probably a matter of only novelties, i.e. cameras released within the past few weeks, having a chance for prominent display in the large chain stores. Olympus seems to have responded by rolling out nominally "special" (by name decals, case colour and some bundled accessory) models every other week - the original mju::II is the only in the series where I have ever seen two bodies with exactly the same inscription.
 
For what it's worth, there is not much bad about any of the olympus stylus/infinity/zooms. I've used 4 different models (not including the one above) and they have all worked wonderfully and given me sharp, excellent results. They are so cheap that if you see one for a couple bucks and are interested just go for it!

I recently had the zoom 150 model out in -18 C weather, shielded only by an exterior coat pocket and it still performed flawlessly!
 
You're right Noll. They're all pretty good, but I think that the DLX Wide is one of the best ones. When I bought mine it was around twice as much as the others IIRC. The newer model (which is smaller) with the 28-100 lens I was not impressed with. I bought two hoping that they were as good and I could wear them out one at a time. The images just didn't seem sharp. The DLX Wide with 28-80 and Yashica T4 Zoom have very good image quality, however I think the Olympus body is better as well as being sealed.
 
JeffL said:
You're right Noll. They're all pretty good, but I think that the DLX Wide is one of the best ones. When I bought mine it was around twice as much as the others IIRC. The newer model (which is smaller) with the 28-100 lens I was not impressed with. I bought two hoping that they were as good and I could wear them out one at a time. The images just didn't seem sharp. The DLX Wide with 28-80 and Yashica T4 Zoom have very good image quality, however I think the Olympus body is better as well as being sealed.
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Nice! How would you say it compares to the Stylus Epic non zoom. MJUII?
 
JeffL said:
Dunno. Never used one. Doesn't the Stylus Epic have a 35mm Tessar type lens? I heard they're very good cameras.
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Hi,

I've finally remembered where I saw it; try here and scroll down about a third of the page.

http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/stylus/index.html

The Tessar is 4 elements in three groups from memory. The double glued one at the back? So a variation on 4 lenses in a row, which will start a row...

Regards, David
 
David Hughes said:
The Tessar is 4 elements in three groups from memory. The double glued one at the back? So a variation on 4 lenses in a row, which will start a row...
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The mju::II lens is a Cooke Triplet with appended aspheric negative lens - the latter makes the whole thing telefocal (so that it is shorter and smaller than a regular 35/2.8 would be) and presumably adds correction and coverage (a classic 35mm Cooke Triplet is not anywhere near covering 24x36mm at f/2.8). Kind of on the same family tree as a Tessar, but much more modern and not anywhere close.
 
sevo said:
The mju::II lens is a Cooke Triplet with appended aspheric negative lens - the latter makes the whole thing telefocal (so that it is shorter and smaller than a regular 35/2.8 would be) and presumably adds correction and coverage (a classic 35mm Cooke Triplet is not anywhere near covering 24x36mm at f/2.8). Kind of on the same family tree as a Tessar, but much more modern and not anywhere close.
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Hi,

It's amazing what was derived from the Cooke Triplet. And it seems to have a lot of miles left in it...

Regards, David
 
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