Following on in the vein of the “Power of MFT” post, I shot a small swimming carnival yesterday for year 6 students. This was the day after a full 8 hour senior carnival, so I decided to go light.
The bigger carnival was held indoors at a 50m pool. It needed the 40-150 and 300 Pro’s for speed. This time, at a 25m pool in gentle sunshine, I managed the whole thing with the “kit” 75-300 on an EM1 and the 8-18 on an EM10.
One of many taken tight and quickly with the budget super tele. This lens just takes very nice images, regardless of its pedestrian specs.
The EM1 mk2 was well balanced and the lens responsive. Again showing the benefits of MFT format. This lens is super sharp up to 200mm, decently to excellently sharp above that, especially at f8. I have seen tests that put it equal with the 40-150 pro with teleconverter and I would believe that and then it adds even more reach.
The only real issues with it are, no weather sealing, slow maximum aperture and slightly less sure footed AF than the pro lenses, none of which have ever held me back within reason.