Gluttenne's reviews

Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 ASPH MEGA OIS LUMIX G VARIO

I was skeptical about this lens before buying it a few months ago. I had read few bad reviews about it.
After three months using it I'm very happy with this Panasonic 100-300mm.
It delivers very good pictures between 100-200mm range and it's still good at 250mm.
At 300mm problem is not resolution but lack of micro contrast and presence of chromatic aberrations which
give pictures on the dull side.
I use CS6 with Nik plugin (Tonal Contrast) with great success to raise micro contrast and CS6 lens correction
to get rid of CA.
Resulting images are not exactly what you would obtain with Panasonic 200mm or Olympus 300mm, but it's close enough.
Build compares with my Nikon 70-300mm VR. Focus ring is stiff but not that stiff.
VR on the lens is not as good as the VR on my E-M5 so I just unplug it.
Focus is not that fast so for sport and flying birds better buy version II
Lens is a little slow (f/5.6) to take good pictures when sky is covered so you won't miss wheather protection
ring of model II.
I'm happy with Panasonic 100-300mm considering I paid 250$ and would but it again.