Surprised by the Panny 45-175mm power zoom - initial observations

tt321 wrote:

Because they are not cheap, or at least were not cheap when first introduced. They were marketed as some kind of premium higher middle class product.

They are a bit curious. The video convenience was usually not appreciated by serious videographers whose weaponry of choice are legacy MF primes, and the power everything interface and counter-intuitive OIS behaviour baffled serious stills photographers, and those are the kind of people who write reviews. Hence the almost universal negativity, and people often feeling pleasantly surprised when they actually try and use them.

This lens is shorter, and looks less serious and spectacular, than the cheap non-X 14-42 zoomed to 42.