Panasonic LUMIX Micro Four Thirds Camera Lens, Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm, F4.0-6.3 II ASPH., Power O.I.S. – H-RSA100400
$1,697.99
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10 reviews for Panasonic LUMIX Micro Four Thirds Camera Lens, Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm, F4.0-6.3 II ASPH., Power O.I.S. – H-RSA100400
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Forrest –
Excellent lens
Beautiful lens. It’s tack sharp with fast auto focus and great for wildlife or birding. Also great for macro of insects that don’t allow a close approach like dragonflies and damselflies. The on lens function switches are easy to use and it being MFT, the weight is manageable for basically anyone. It’s essentially a pro lens at a non professional price.
NoSyde –
Absolutely amazing
Never really wrote reviews, but given this lens’s performance and ease of use I decided that I should.The auto focus is fast and is able to capture your subjects every detail.Built in stabilization will assist when you are at full zoom. This especially is nice to have since the lens itself is quite heavy.The overall quality of the lens is well worth the money!The only complaint that I would have, is that the ring to just the zoom is a bit stiff, but I notice that it is getting easier after some use.For anyone who likes to take wildlife pictures, this is a must have! Great lens for street photography as well!
Clisham –
Very good
Very good, the lens is excellent and better than the Olympus 100-400. My only issue is the lens hood, after a few months of owning it the hood takes some time to take on and off. I prefer the ones that screw on and off since I’ve never had this issue before.
John M. Chufar –
High quality, super zoom.
This lense has a great reach of an equivalent full frame at 800mm. It is shorter and lighter making this a very useful handheld wildlife lense. The image stabilization along with the Panasonic G9M2 in body image stabilization provides for Dual Image Stabilization. If you are a Micro Four Thirds photographer who uses a Panasonic and photographs wildlife, this lense provides the reach without startling your subjects. I used this lense every day for the past three months and give this 5 stars. The autofocus is fast enough and I often use Animal + Eye with Zone detection with 1/1000 shutter speed for a perching bird or 1/2000 for in flight birds.
Donald Johnson –
Worth it for long distance
Love it. Works great for lon distance shots
Eric R Kulas –
Great lens!
A fantastic zoom lens. I shot the total eclipse with it and man did it turn out well. Very large in the frame and clear.
Anagani K. –
Just Perfect
Awesome build quality, bit on a heavier side for an MFT lens, but great optics
Stephen T. Crye –
Very nice for the price
I bought this lens for applications such as shooting 4K 422 video of the Starship launches in Boca Chica Texas, and for things like Eclipse photography. I am pleased with the sharpness. You can see from the lunar photo that it’s quite good for a under $2,000 zoom lens. It’s paired with my Panasonic GH6, which has a 25 megapixel sensor. There is some softness at the edges. I think people that criticize this lens on other sites are expecting it to perform like a $7,500 Olympus Zoom. You’re not going to get that kind of performance for under $2,000. At F 6.3 at 400mm it needs light, but for my use case light will not be a problem The zoom ring is not super smooth, but it’s also not sticky. You probably wouldn’t want to do zooming during video unless you have a very good tripod. The OIS does a good at stabilizing handheld shots, but with the heft of this lens, your arm will get tired rather quickly. I’m happy that I bought it and I’m not going to send it back. I do wish I had been able to find it on sale, last month several sites offered it for $1300.
Rob T –
The built quality is much better than the 100 – 300 mm lens on the left. Definately has the feell of a quality lens and it came with an external tripod mount. The mount is a must have with the 985g weight of the lens. Looking forward to using it in the field.The order said delivery by Saturday (3 days) but it came the next day.
Gerhard –
… es ist sicherlich kein schlechtes Objektiv ABERich besitze auch das Sony 200-600 an einer A7IV (33MP – mit Crop also vergleichbar) und erziele damit sichtbar bessere Ergebnisse (zu einem günstigeren Preis ABER doppelter Größe/Gewicht).Natürlich ist ein Vergleich zw. Vollformat und MFT wie ein Vergleich von Äpfel mit Birnen und mein Entschluss, mir (zusätzlich) ein MFT-System zuzulegen, waren die Videoeigenschaften der Lumix GH7 UND die “Motorradtauglichkeit”.Da ich das MFT-System für Motorradreisen einsetze, ist die Platz-/Gewichtseinsparung natürlich enorm und das letzte Quäntchen an Qualität nicht ausschlaggebend aber wenn Größe und Gewicht weniger Rolle spielen, bleibe ich weiterhin bei Sony-Vollformat.Fazit:- Verarbeitung und Haptik Top (zu dem Preis aber auch zu erwarten)- Abbildungsleistung nicht schlecht aber auch nicht überragend (mag auch am MFT-Systen liegen)P.S.:Der Mensch, der die Idee hatte, die Streulichtblende mit einer Klemmschraube zu fixieren, sollte dringend einen Drogentest machen – sonst kommt als nächstes eine Version mit Kabelbinder- oder Schnürsenkelbefestigung.