Amazon.com: Customer reviews: OLYMPUS OM SYSTEM MSC ED-M 75 to 300mm II f4.8-6.7 Zoom Lens

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2015

It is critical with this lens that the shutter speed range from a minimum of 160th to 640th when handheld to avoid image blur.
This is a rather slow lens so be prepared to use the lens wide open and push the ISO to your camera's clean limit.
The lens excels when shooting in bright days or when using a tripod.
Optically capable lens when conditions are optimal or special care is considered. Focusing is quick and accurate in moderate light.
Mechanically sound, cosmetically well finished, fits well with all my bodies, EM-1, EM-5, EP-5, and PL-5.
Portability is excellent, truly pocket-able. Good value for an equivalent 600mm lens.
Would of earned 5 stars if it were a half stop faster.

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ERIC

Good reach, needs a lot of practice to setup ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2015

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Good reach, needs a lot of practice to setup the camera depending on the light . needs often to shot over ISO 800 to 4000 at 300 mm ( to have shutter speed over 600 and so have clear pictures)
good lens overall, light can be an issue depending on situation.

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Amsiatech

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2014

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Good quality, shipped fast,

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Consigliatissimo!!

Reviewed in Italy on July 22, 2017

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Premetto che è il mio primo teleobiettivo quindi non posso fare nessun confronto. L'obiettivo arriva in una scatola ben sigillata e resistente. Design eccellente da far invidia alle concorrenti canon e nikon che a confronto assomigliano a dei bazooka. Molto leggero per essere un teleobiettivo tanto che, con una mano un po' ferma, si possono tranquillamente scattare ottime foto, soprattutto di giorno. Altrimenti è assolutamente necessario un treppiede. Arrivando alla qualità dell'obiettivo posso dire che ne sono rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso. Ho letto commenti del tipo "l'obiettivo è un po' buio" ecc.. Sì l'obiettivo è un po' buio ma se sapete come regolare iso, tempi e diaframma non avrete mai problemi. Verso i 300mm perde un po' di definizione soprattutto se si usa il teleconverter digitale, ma lo reputo normale. Qualità/prezzo: 9 (vi consiglio di acquistarlo quando c'e il cash back dell'olympus. Ho risparmiato altri 100 euro).
Ovviamente esistono altri teleobiettivi da 300mm per l'Olympus, ma andreste a spendere sui 1200€.

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David

Très bon zoom

Reviewed in France on June 30, 2017

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Acheté pour monter sur un Olympus Pen EPL6, en remplacement du 40-150 f/4-5.6 que je trouvais un peu court pour les photos de nature/oiseaux/animaux... Le gain de zoom est très appréciable (même s'il faut avoir la main ferme pour bien viser à 300mm (equiv 600mm)). La qualité d'image est très bonne pour l'amateur que je suis.
D'autre part cet objectif est plus imposant et surtout beaucoup plus lourd que le 40-150. Personnellement cela ne me gêne absolument pas (il semble de meilleure qualité et je l'ai finalement bien mieux en main que le 40-150), mais c'est à prendre en compte au moment de l'achat si le poids est un critère important pour vous. Néanmoins il reste extraordinairement compact et léger pour un équivalent 150-600mm !
Deux petits points négatifs :
- l'ouverture un peu limitée et donc l'obligation de grimper assez vite en ISO dès que la luminosité baisse un peu. Néanmoins à ce prix et ce poids on ne peut évidement pas espérer du f/4 !...
- Pas d'étui, ni de pare-soleil ce qui est un peu mesquin de la part d'Olympus !

Finalement je ne regrette absolument pas cet achat et il correspond exactement à ce que je voulais (très grande focale, très bonne qualité d'image, un poids et un prix raisonnable quitte à avoir une ouverture un peu limitée).

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Reviewed in India on July 14, 2015

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Something went wrong with this purchase. My fault was thinking that this lens is the newer version. Anyway product sent is fine

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TheProf

Performs a lot better than it should for the price - very nice lens !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2014

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I'm writing this review as a long-time user of micro four thirds products and as a part-time pro photog who mainly uses a Sony DSLR/SLT setup. I have shot telephoto lenses for around 30 years now on film and digital. The 70/5-300 on DSLRs has tended to be a maligned lens because it is traditionally a fairly cheap and cheerful 'kit' kind of lens that folks often buy who don't care too much about ultimate image quality. I can certainly vouch for OEM and Sigma/Tamron 70-300s to be very mediocre - once you get to about 180mm+ they lose massive amounts of contrast and resolution and the build quality is often pretty low, with slow AF to boot. But reviews of this little m 4/3 lens are interesting - some say it is good but not great, some say it is good up to 200mm, some say it is mediocre and out-gunned by the more expensive Panasonic Lumix 100-300 lens for m 4/3.

Here is my own take - it's early days yet, but after a few 100 test shots, my conclusions are: lightweight and compact for a zoom of this size, as you would expect for a m 4/3 lens; might be a little unwieldy on a very small m 4/3 camera body when fully extended at 300mm (e.g. on an EPL5 or GM1) but on my EM5 it balances very well; feels quite solid in the hand and is 'made in Japan' - nice!; zoom action is just right - not too stiff, not too sloppy, no zoom creep experienced so far; AF not as snappy as a prime or smaller range zooms, but not overly sluggish either on my EM5 - about what I expected; AF-C not great at keeping up with moving targets, but that is more a limitation of the EM5 AF system and is not really the forte of micro four thirds - only the GH4 really starts to catch up with DSLRs when it comes to AF-C in my experience.

But what has really astonished me is the IQ - at 300mm my test shots show very good resolution and contrast - I was stunned to see that images from this lens and my EM5 match those from my Sony 70-400G lens (mounted on a Sony a57 or a77 SLT camera body) for contrast and sharpness - that Sony lens is a £1500 lens by the way ! Now I may have just been lucky and obtained a very good copy of the Olympus lens, and I do have a lot of years experience of handholding tele lenses to fall back on, but even so, this really surprised me. The quality of images from this lens far surpasses those from any other 70-300 or 75-300 I have ever come across on any system so far. If you have ever had, like I have, a Tamron 70-300 or one of those Tamron superzooms like a 28-300, the long end of this Olympus produces images far in excess of the quality of those produced by those other lenses.

Now of course you do need good technique when using a lens like this at the long end. On a m 4/3 system the 35mm equivalent focal length is X 2, so it it 150mm-600mm 35mm equivalent. Handholding a 600mm equivalent lens, even one quite small and light like this one, takes practice and patience to perfect. The IBIS on the EM5 is good of course, but you still need to treat a 300mm lens with respect. My test shots handheld at 1/500 shutter speed were very crisp at the 300mm end - I imagine on a tripod with IBIS turned off they would be even more impressive. I should also say I was very impressed by the low levels of purple fringing and chromatic aberration - again, much lower levels than I have seen on some much more expensive tele lenses on DSLR systems.

So, in conclusion, this lens was a real eye-opener for me - much, much sharper at the long end than I expected it to be. I have never owned the rival Panasonic 100-300 but I have owned the Panasonic 45-200 and this lens blows that one out of the water by quite some margin. And as I said above, it gives very expensive DSLR lenses like the Sony 70-400G a run for their money, even though on paper it shouldn't. I should add I also have a Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 lens - a lens that costs about £900, and again, this little Oly is as sharp as that lens - really impressive especially for the price.

This is therefore a great lens for wildlife. Is it a great lens for sports, action, air shows etc? Well once micro four thirds camera bodies have good AF-C and tracking capabilities it will be - for now, only really the GH4 offers that. So action shots will always be a bit challenging, but there certainly are users out there who are using this lens on m 4/3 and getting good action shots, so it can be done.

I can't recommend this lens highly enough in conclusion - it punches well above its weight. Shame on Olympus for not supplying a lens hood for free though - while many report the coatings on this lens make it very resistant to flare and ghosting, I would never use a long tele lens without a hood - I ended up buying a collapsible rubber hood sold on here and made by Hoya - you can, of course, buy other third party hoods or the over-priced official Olympus one. Looks like Oly have started supplying hoods with their more recent lens models..finally !

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Eifelbua

Typische Olympus-Qualität zu moderatem Preis

Reviewed in Germany on September 17, 2019

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Besitze das Objektiv seit 2016, und benutze es vorwiegend zur Landschaftsfotografie, wechselweise an einer Olympus OM-D E-M5 ii, einer Olympus E-PL6 und an einer Panasonic GX80.- Für den aufgerufenen Preis bringt das Objektiv eine Olympus-typisch sehr gute Schärfe mit.-CAs habe ich selbst bei konstrastreichen Motiven und 300mm bisher nicht ausmachen können. Die Farbwiedergabe ist ebenfalls sehr gut. Ein geringer (meiner Meinung nach absolut tolerierbarer) Schärfeabfall ist in voller Zoom-Stellung vorhanden. Man muss aber hier auch den Preis berücksichtigen, der für das Gebotene (geringes Gewicht, unauffällig, keine CAs, 600mm maximale KB-Brennweite) doch OK ist.-Für Aktion-Fotografie ist das Objektiv aufgrund der relativ geringen Lichtstärke und des vielleicht nicht ganz so schnellen Autofocus weniger geeignet.- Wer allerdings ruhigere Motive bevorzugt, kommt hier zu einem günstigen Preis an ein im Vergleich sehr gutes Objektiv, das den KB-Bereich von 150-600mm abdeckt. Die Lichtstärke ist in den meisten Situationen ausreichend, zumal in diversen Tests darauf hingewiesen wird, dass die beste Bildqualität bereits bei Offenblende erreicht wird.-Und es gibt ja auch noch Stative.- Dafür erhält man ein kaum als Super-Tele identifizierbares und gut transportables Objektiv.
Als kleines Manko empfinde ich, dass an dem Objektiv kein Platz ist, um eine Objektivschelle anzubringen, was besonders beim Einsatz mit der E-PL6 an einem Stativ wünschenswert wäre.-An einem grösseren Body wie der Olympus OM-D E-M5 ii hingegen kann das rel. leichte Objektiv getrost montiert werden ohne Kopflastigkeit zu verursachen.
Leider fehlt, wie bei fast allen Nicht-Pro-Objektiven von Olympus, auch hier eine Sonnenblende im Lieferumfang; eine Unsitte, von der Olympus langsam mal wegkommen sollte.- Ich habe mir die passende preisgünstige Sonnenblende von einem Zubehöranbieter bestellt und bin damit zufrieden.

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Muy ligero y de calidad.

Reviewed in Spain on December 25, 2018

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Es un tele basico pero funciona muy bien, el uniconveniente es que no es muy luminoso, pero por su precio no se puede pedir mas,.
la focal equivale a un 600mm en FF, con lo que es un objetivo ideal para usarlo en pajareo y debido a su pequeño tamaño y peso no cuesta nada llevarlo y hacer largas caminatas con el a la espalda, con un 600 de FF seria algo imposible a no ser que puedas cargar con mucho peso y volumen.
Otra de las ventajas que tiene es que al ser tan ligero y junto con el sistema de estabilización de olympus en el cuerpo de la cámara permite hacer fotos sin trípode ni monopie en buenas condiciones de luz.
En su focal mas corta que es 75mm tiene una grandísima nitidez propia de objetivos muchísimo mas caros.