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Which means a little lens disassembly and a chance to peak inside this bad boy. So guess what? One thing about Tyler’s somewhat-unique sources of supply: they don’t have a 14 day exchange policy. It may sound like silly overkill, but I can assure from long experience that had we sent it out, the first renter would have done just such a check and complained about my quality control.
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Looking through the lens against a smooth background using a couple of halogen front lights shows it. Looking through the lens in regular room light didn’t show it. A test shot wouldn’t have picked it up, it doesn’t show on images. This happens not infrequently, and in every lens brand. Now, before you decide to a) go major fanboy and declare to all who aren’t listening that this never happens to your brand, or b) sing the “quality control should never allow this to happen” song in three part harmony with the My Nation Assembles Better Than That Choir singing in the background, come back to reality. Or something like that.īut guess what? When I opened up the new lens, there, right inside the center of the rear element, was a big chunk of Loctite (for those who don’t know, it’s a type of glue used to seal screws in lenses, dries to a plastic like finish, and occasionally a piece breaks loose inside a lens). Just keep the lenses in case I want to do a long-term test write up. You’ve seen all my long-term test write ups, right? No? Well, yeah, I generally don’t get around to doing them.
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I was going to Imatest it and then take it home for some extensive long-term testing. I love to shoot at 135mm for long portraits and stealth street photography on SLRs ( Canon 135 L, Nikon 135 DC, Sony 135 f/1.8) so this lens was very likely going to fill a niche for me. I was already having a lens crush about the equivalent of teenage-girl-on-Justin-Bieber. My Imatest numbers aren’t going to expand the world’s knowledge of the lens much. I hadn’t planned on writing about it the lens has already been reviewed thoroughly at, sample images posted at DPReview, and a very nice user review done by Robin Wong. I had to test it, of course, because that’s what I do. The first Olympus 75mm f/1.8 m4/3 lens arrived today, courtesy of Tyler’s connections with the King of Siam or wherever it is he gets these things.