In Praise of Olympus' in Body IS

[Asmarlak]

Thanks Loupey. I don't think Olympus has telephoto lenses of more than 300mm considering that the crop factor for all Olympus DSLR's is x2 which makes it 600mm equiv. I have the 70-300mm and the IS system works beautifully. Here are some examples:
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...&ppuser=257353

http://gallery.photographyreview.com...&ppuser=257353

However, I was unable to obtain the same results by shooting in dim lighting handheld at 1/5 by Canon nor Nikon lenses.

[Loupey]

Those two are beautiful examples! Wish we saw those in the N&W forum.

I don't think Olympus has telephoto lenses of more than 300mm considering that the crop factor for all Olympus DSLR's is x2 which makes it 600mm equiv.

I know about the crop factor. I have a 500mm lens and on my camera it is an 800mm "equivalent". But it still is a 500mm (as is yours still a 300mm). It is important to keep crop factor (a camera function) separate from lens performance. I could always crop every image to be a 2x (or whatever for that matter).