Introducing Tack Sharp
A while ago, I made a guest appearance on The Talk Show with Dan Benjamin and John Gruber to talk about photography. The episode went over well and we’ve talked about doing it again. And then, Dan and I talked a bit more and decided to dive all the way in. To that end, we’re launching Tack Sharp, a photography related podcast.
The website and initial launch announcements rolled out yesterday via Twitter, Dan’s blog, and Daring Fireball. The response in these first twenty-four hours? Phenomenal. Both Dan and I have gotten a lot of nice mail and tweets. Also, our Tack Sharp Google Group has been picking up some good traffic.
Excited and happy just begins to describe how I’m feeling about this so far. Go check it out if this sort of thing sounds like it might interest you. You can also subscribe up via iTunes.
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One correction, Duncan. You said the fastest zoom lenses are f2.8. True of Canon and Nikon. But Olympus have two f2.0 lenses - 14 to 35 (equiv 28-70) and the 35-100 (70-200). They're big and heavy, but no more so than the equivalent Nikon and Canons.
Olympus also have a 7-14 zoom (14-28), which is as good as the Nikon 14-28.
I'm a Nikon user, but Olympus are just as good at zoom lens design, particularly wide-angle, as Nikon. And with their two f2 lenses, they're doing something unique.
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Awesome! Headed there now... :)
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Olympus also have a 7-14 zoom (14-28), which is as good as the Nikon 14-28.
Got any tests/figures/samples to back that statement up?
Also, judging by the focal length, it's not a full-frame lens (a 7mm rectilinear lens would be an impossibility for the 35mm format). So, how can it be as good as the Nikkor, if you use a full-frame camera, and this lens would be useless? Seems to be a mistake to equate the two lenses, when they are so different.
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Took you long enough David ;)
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David, I make that claim based on photographers I know who have both systems, Nikon and Olympus. They can find issues with other lenses, but those two are peers. Canon doesn't make an UWA as good as those two.
You should know that Olympus's sensors are half the size of a full-frame sensor. Details can be had all over the interweb.
It's not a mistake to compare them as they're equally good. And when you make prints, what matters are distortion, sharpness, colour, and rendition. If you can't distinguish between prints made with either lens, they're peers.
Using your logic, Nikon as a camera system was a POS before the D3. Hardly true.
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Luke, indeed. You're right. I was mentally referring to the Canon and Nikon line ups as those are what I have the most/all of my experience with in the 35mm format. I know that Oly makes good glass, but as I've never used it, it's necessarily out of my experience. I guess I should have mentioned "in the Canon or Nikon ranges" as part of that statement in the podcast to indicate where my experience was.
As far as the rest of the comment stream here, please everyone keep things civil. :)
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It's not a mistake to compare them as they're equally good. And when you make prints, what matters are distortion, sharpness, colour, and rendition. If you can't distinguish between prints made with either lens, they're peers.
But being a non-full-frame lens does impact on sharpness and distortions. you need to magnify the image more to get viewable size, so it won't be as sharp as the full-frame lens - and things like chromatic aberrations will be more visible.
I don't have anything against Olympus - I just think it's silly to compare two lenses that are in completely different categories. It would be like comparing a Nikon DX lens to a Nikon FF lens. Or comparing a 35mm lens with a medium-format lens.
They are made for different purposes, camera systems and users.
Using your logic, Nikon as a camera system was a POS before the D3. Hardly true.
That doesn't make a lot of sense, as Nikon made full-frame great cameras and lenses for a long time before their first digital full-frame.
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