I hit an Olimbos e-500
I would aforementioned to acquire a photo lens.
On ebay there are grouping selling
18-180mm lenses and 50-500 mm lenses.
They both hit 10x ascent right?
There is most $600 difference.
What is the action difference?
I requirement this lense for road meets, since cameras are not allowed on the earth i requirement a lense that crapper accomplish every around the field.
Size is rattling not an issue,
But is there actually a difference?
If i verify a represent with the digit at 18 and the another at 50 module they be the aforementioned or with digit at 180 and digit at 500?
Is it meet that you intend clearer pictures, inferior impairment and more curb with the large lens?
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You need to know what you need the lens for, general photograpy or specialised such as sport or bird watching - I am thinking here of the feathered variety! If it is for genereal pics I would imagine the 18 - 180 mm would be more useful.
Bear in mind when using the bigger zoom lens a tripod would be useful.
I have been interested in photograpy for many years, but apart from when I did some sport photograpy for the local paper, I have never felt the need for a high powered tele lens.
As someone once said, the cheapest tele lens is one’s feet !!
That is unless you are photographing something which you cant walk closer to !
It seems like the marketing bunch have confused you with all their talk about 10x zooms on P&S cameras … that optical zoom factor is only important on cameras that have a permanently mounted lens on them … P&S cameras
The E-500 is a DSLR and uses interchangeable lenses.
That said, your E-500 has a slightly smaller sensor than other DSLR’s so the magnification factor is 2x. So a 18-180 mm lens would be just like a 36-360 mm lens using a 35 mm camera. The 50-500 mm, like a 100-1000 mm lens so you can see 10x doesn’t mean the two lenses are alike
If you have to shoot from the sidelines then the longer lens is the one you need.
Performance has to do with the design of the lens … if both are made by Olympus, then you can be assured they are high performing lenses. If they are made by a third-party lens maker then you are on your own … you will not know how their performance will be effected by 20 or 30 years of use.
For reference the zoom of the lens is simply the big number divided by the little number. so for an 18-55 lens it is 55 / 18 which is simply 3X zoom. Why the apparently low numbers? Because with SLR cameras you have a choice. If the current lens doesn’t do it for you, then you change it! By making lenses with a smaller zoom, it’s actually possible to make them better quality, because there is not so much compromise to work at a wide range of focal lengths. Having said that, you can buy 18-200mm lenses, so that is quite a large 11.1X zoom.
Moving into SLR photography you need to forget about this magic zoom factor and concentrate on focal lengths.
A focal length of 50mm is regarded as “Normal” and all other references are drawn from here. This is something supposedly similar to what the human eye sees. Normal focal lengths are used for portraits, although up to 85mm is still considered a portrait lens.
Any number lower than 50mm is considered a wide angle lens, and any number over 85mm is considered telephoto. SLR lenses can have fixed focal lengths, or they may zoom. An 18-55mm lens is wide angle to normal zoom lens. A 70-200mm lens is a zoom telephoto lens. Notice how a lens can be a zoom lens but not necessarily a telephoto lens, this is a popular misconception.
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Good advise from the others but I would like to caution you that if there is only a $600 difference between the two lenses the 50-500mm is probably junk. For example a Canon 28-200mm lens is $360 and a 500mm lens is $5,800
Good quality long telephoto lenses are very expensive.
Look at the Olympus 70-300mm lens ($400). This will give you the extra reach you need for sports and is a decent quality lens.