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Outstanding product : Olympus Zuiko 70 300mm 
This is a reasonable priced zoom lens that is well worth the time and trouble to carry it around. I have had very good success using it with my Olympus E-520 camera. Crisp clear photos are the result of using this ED Zuiko lens.
Affordable birding Olympus Zuiko lens
Along with E520’s inbuilt images stabilization, this Zuiko lens offers the most affordable birding, wildlife lens with a effective reach of images stabilizated 600mm (2x crop factor) well under a grand. This combo is very lightweight and hand-holdable making is very useful for hikes.Just make sure you have sufficient light, and keep ISO to 400-800 range so that shutter speed is at least 1/100 to avoid shake from handholding. IQ is very good from F6.3 to F9 and beyond. In low contrast situations this lens is slow in focusing, but this is expected at this price range with any lens having a maximum aperture of F5.6. Use only center point focus to improve focus acquisition.
Colors are very nice with E520, unlike the bland output from Canon Rebel and EFS55-250 combo. Of my half-dozen Zuiko lenses, this has the highest VFM. With Canon, you might pay over a grant for the lens alone (ex. EF 100-400 IS). Nikon has nothing in this range. This Zuiko lens puts 70-300m lenses from Canikons to shame as far (pun intended) reach and IQ is concerned. Highly recommended.
Nice Olympus ED lens for the price!,
With this 300mm lens you can really feel like you are almost next to your subject. I can’t wait to get some shots at the next full moon. For the price, it is a great lens. The bokeh on this lens is nice, with a shallow DOF. That said, there are some shortcomings, but I would expect that from a telephoto zoom 300mm lens like this. First, the auto-focus will hunt in low light. I really don’t think I’m going to be using the 300mm end of the lens in low light anyway. I noticed that the lens didn’t seem to focus well if you had multiple focus points selected. Pick one of your focus points and use it. Remember that this lens, while light-weight is not one that you want to use hand-held at 300mm unless you can get a very short shutter speed. I noticed more than a few shots had problems with camera shake using longer shutter speeds.
Very good 300mm f4 telephoto, 
Bought an Olympus 70 300mm lens last week from Amazon and put it through some tests on an E-510 yesterday and today. I was careful to separate narrow depth-of-field telephoto characteristics from lens image resolution. Auto-focus is quick (enough for landscapes) and accurate, though can be slow in low light. At infinity, shooting distant landscapes, the lens is very sharp corner to corner at F8 from 70mm up to around 220mm–beyond that, the corner resolution begins to soften (inspected at 100% enlargement). By 300mm at F8 (when shooting images both near and far), the edge resolution is noticably demolished. Was relieved to find that stopping the lens down from F9 to F11 greatly increased image corner resolution at the longer end of the lens–especially 300mm lens at F11.
The longer telephoto end of the lens is probably not quite as sharp as the wider to middle range, but overall, the lens can delivers sharp, even resolution across the whole image frame from 70mm to 300mm–though a tripod or monopod looks to be necessaty above 200mm (or there abouts) in low light, even with the E-510’s anti-shake feature (and trying to keep ISO at 100). With pixel peeking, there is very little chromatic aberration to be found throughout the zoom range. A harsher color fringe may crop up at high-contrast edges near the margin of images–but this is easily removed in Photoshop software. Images show good color and contrast. An excellent lens–and a keeper.
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:01 am
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