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Question: The Olympus 40-150mm lens for around $100? In several reviews I see where customers have paid around $100 for this lens in the past. I'm surprised how much the cost of this lens has gone up. Any ideas on what happened? Still seems like a great lens for the $.
Document: I have a hacked Panasonic Lumix GH-1. I have the 20mm 1.7, which is sharp. I had tried the 14-42 f 3.5-5.6 zoom and I didn't like it. The videos weren't sharp and it was clunky when zooming. I wanted a zoom but was looking for a bargain so I purchased a used 40-150mm Olympus for a total cost of $95.00. I only used it once so far but the video was excellent.
and has the 4/3 sensor (6 times the size of the largest sensor provided in any P&S; camera) is a remarkable achievement and at the price a great value as well.The 14-42mm and 40-150mm zoom lenses provide much better image quality than the Olympus 14-150mm lens and at their light weight and small size there is little reason to buy the 14-150mm lens.
I got the 40-150mm zoom to go with my E-520. While the depth of field is not as shallow and has less bokeh than I'd like, overall it's a very good lens. Compact, quick focusing, and very sharp. It would be nice to have a lower aperture, but that's not a realistic hope. Great bargain for the money.
Focusing in low light is horrifically painful though; most of the time the AF Assist on my camera is enough to compensate. Focusing to infinity seems like it could be sharper; I wouldn't recommend this lens if your subject is going to be more than 35-40 yards away.This lens is definitely for Enthusiasts and Beginners, but for that purpose it's excellent and well priced.
I got this lens with my E-510 (14-42mm and 40-150mm).It's my main lens for now. I don't use the 14-42mm much. it's sharp sometimes. 3 to 5 of 10 photos are excellent, the rest just decent or below. slow auto focus in light and sometime not accurate. I use manual focus mostly to get the best results. I used it with the ex-25 and I got very nice macro shots.
I own Zuiko 40-150mm lens and I'm very satisfied with it. It's 80-300mm equivalent of 35mm (full frame) camera and 55-200mm equivalent for APS-C sensor camera. Lens has very good zooming ability as well as fast focusing even at max. focal lenght (but images are smooth). Also bear in mind, that It extends pretty long - it's 72mm long in "resting" position and 130mm long at 150mm focal lenght.
I had just bought an Olympus e-520 with the kit lens and I purched this lens to go along with it. I was looking between this one and the 300mm one and I read a different review from someone else about how the 300mm is to strong, and im sure he was right, because the minimum on this lens is 40mm and still that is a little too much zoom, so over all if your looking for a nice zoom lens but don't want to go overboard this is your lens.
Of course most people know Olympus as a high quality brand. And, I was looking for a suitable yet affordable lens that could be adaptable to my Panasonic Lumix G1. In this 40-150 lens, I surely found just that.In daylight and other well lit situations, the results from the ED Zuiko seems hard to beat. While it does struggle somewhat in low light situation, many lenses do the same.
When my"therapist" at the local camera store told me he could sell me this lens for $100 I thought, "It's Olympus, how bad could it be?" So I bought it and took some time to set up a few test shots against the superb Olympus 14-54. The 40-150 performed beautifully, it's nice and sharp, and nothing I could do produced any fringing.
I bought my Olympus E-510 with the 14-42 lens. I wanted a longer lens to give me more reach when shooting distant shots of wildlife. I take this camera hiking, so I wanted a lens that was fairly light. This 40-150 lens was just the ticket. In stores in my area, I would have paid at least twice what I paid through Amazon, so the price was very good. Delivery took awhile because of the Christmas rush.
Answer: Ive seen it listed as refurbished on another site for 84.99.  I am just gonna go ahead and do that....but I dont know where everyone else is getting it for $!00