BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adey Baker" data-source="post: 3334467" data-attributes="member: 1805">I reckon that websites like DPReview and Ephotozine will already have had copies of both this and the Olympus lens for testing and will post 'Hands-on/first impressions'-type reviews on the day of release.Hopefully, that minimum focus distance of 1.3m will hold up all the way to 400mm (the current Panasonic 100-300mm zoom certainly trumps the Olympus 75-300mm in this respect). It should be really good for butterflies/dragonflies and to get a similar setting on the new Olympus 300mm will require an extra £299 for the 1.4x converter which will make an all-up weight of 1580gms.Of course, there's the maximum apertures to consider plus the price and the optical quality of each lens to compare before final decisions are made, but this lens certainly looks the better package at the moment.</blockquote>