GH3 Panasonic lens compares to Nikon

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Richtiger

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I am looking at getting a GH3 when they become available in Australia. I currently use a GH1 and also a Nikon D90 for stills. I have a 70-200 f2.8 lens for the Nikon and I'm wondering
which lens would be most like this one for the GH3 for stills.
I am aware of the 35-100 Panasonic lens which is equivelant to the 70-200 on full frame, but the D90 isn't full frame so I'm losing some reach I believe. I know there is a Panasonic 100-300 and a 45-200 lens but
these are slower lenses. I currently have the 14-140 and 20mm f1.7.
So my question is ... who is using the GH3 for stills and what long reach lenses are you using ...? Are the 100-300 and 45-200 lenses any good for stills ... do they have ois ..? Image quality etc ... how do they stack up
against the new 35-100 f2.8 Panasonic lens ..?

Richard
 
Unfortunately there's no good fast stills zoom in that equivalent range at the moment. The Sigma 50-150 or Tokina 50-135 are good lenses, but will have no auto functionality or OIS with a m43 camera. I experimented using a Sony 1.7x teleconverter on the end of the Panasonic 35-100, and it worked well enough, but did introduce some CA and wasn't exactly elegant.

The P100-300 is a wonderful lens for stills with good OIS, but as you know, is slow. I haven't tried the 45-200.
 
With a Panasonic or Olympus Four Thirds adapter it would. I have a GH2 and Olympus 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 with a Panasonic adapter. It is disappointingly slow with stills. With video, you can enable AFS, but not AFC. Again, slow. From what I gather, the Oympus 50-200 first-gen is apparently faster on m43 as opposed to the newer one with the blue ring, but I wouldn't know.
 
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