Apologies for the 'Fox News' title, but doing lens tests is so tedious that one needs to hype them up a bit .

Right, so for this little test the mission was - gather all the Zuiko Digital Olympus lenses in my possession that can be used at a 50mm focal length. I omitted a few MF lenses that can be used via an adapter. I also omitted lenses that I have on my Canon 5D as the reason for this test was to see how the lenses performed, not how the body performed.

Methodology:...

This is the conundrum I'm faced with now, after picking up a nice 12-60mm from my usual grey market US importer.

I've always liked the 11-22mm as it's a fairly tight zoom range so you always know what you're going to get with it. It's also very sharp and has little pin or barrel distortion to comment on. However, the new 12-60mm does have a lot of nice features that overlap somewhat with the 11-22mm, and especially with the 14-54mm. On the E-3 it's a revelation in how quickly it locks...

This is a set of images that I created to examine the ISO and resolution differences between three Olympus Four:Thirds DSLR's - the five megapixel E-1, and the ten megapixel E-3 and E-400.

I was interested in how far Olympus have come with regards to one of the main criticisms of the original E-1 - high ISO noise. I think these tests show that Olympus have made great strides since the introduction of the E-1. I would be happy to rely on Auto ISO in the E-3 right up to ISO 800, with...