Zuiko Digital
Thank you all for your impressions! In fact this is the first shot of many that I intend to use there, for training purposes, as I am working on a special portfolio that will be exhibited later this year on the Photokina in Germany.
As usual, I really appreciate all your impressions, very much so!
@Ray, yes in deed, a huge monster Peli case arrived just 3 days ago, filled with the finest lenses Olympus has on the market.
The length of the tree reaching into the sky, the little "legs" it stands on was what I wanted to bring out in deed, like Nathaniel said.
May be interesting to note, my attention was devided, my young dog was all over the place while I tried to shoot and tell him to stay where he was because it is dangerous to goof on those cliffs. Was balancing on a stone with the camera to be able to shoot a 5x bracket having an eye on my dog at the same time.
@Asher, the colors are something which fascinated and convinced me with Olympus from day one. The shot needs to be done again in different light, ideally late sun I think. The aperture I chose, not knowing the lense at all, assuming it to be sharp all the way in this setting of f/6.3 turned out to be just right.
I don't have as much detailed knowledge as Sean Reid undoubtedly has on gear, but I wonder whether he would agree with my judgement, as I think it is not wrong to say that the lense which I chose for a lot of my owrk now is one of the finest WA Zooms on the market since many years, and only recently got competition by a new Nikon super wide angle.
The Zuiko Digital, ZD 7-14mm f/4.0 comes at a price, but it is such a outstanding high quality lense, in my opinion it would make perfect sense to have a 4/3 camera only on purpose to be able to use this particular lense!
I onyl shot a day with it so far, and I am totally hooked on it!
Once you looked through a 100% viewfinder and experienced this lense, you probably never let go of it again if you have any interest in wide angle.
Only since Olympus managed to update their camera to a more adaequate 10MP the potential of the 7-14mm comes into play, if memory serves, it is calculated for around 20MP max I think.
May be worth mentioning in this context, all the Zuikos were designed from the ground up to work with the 4/3 digital camera system that was also invented from the ground up not that long ago. A unique system, with strength and weaknesses, but certainly the only that was designed digitally from the ground up comprising both, body and lenses.
See, all the ZD lenses communicate with the body, and in fact, they can be updated with software, yes, you heard that right, it is true, the lenses can be updated with firmware! So, if I put a 90-250 onto the body, the cameras software communicates with the lense on startup and knows what lense is connected!
Besides, you know I am a big fan of that feature Asher, all the Pro and top Pro lenses are fully splashwaterproof, and Hell, they have to when they are with me as you know!
...they have to prey it from my cold dead hand, this lense is here to stay with me!
Thanks!
P.S. ....a little to the left.... and I'd be gone.... LOL