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Panasonic 14-42 f/3.5-5.6 ll, what's your opinion (owners)

Started Nov 14, 2014 | Discussions thread
Loga Senior Member • Posts: 1,981
Re: Panasonic 14-42 f/3.5-5.6 ll, what's your opinion (owners)
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It's quite a good lens. It's small. Light. Sharpness is completely decent. No one will ever look at your pictures taken by this lens and says: yay, it's not sharp enough! It has good contrast. It keeps lens aberrations low.

I found the wide end has a little high distorsion, but it still works (for me). Stabilization works as expected: 1-2 EV advantage depends on the circumstances (focal length).

Some says it's too conservative since the f number increases very quickly during the zoom range. You'll never notice that, since it's still a daylight lens. And other kit lenses has 0,5 EV advantage at 25mm? And thus, advantage in shallow DOF? Don't make me laugh. f5.1 or f4.5 at 25mm, who cares?

If you need a standard zoom with decent IQ, go for it!

Gunnlaugur Gudmundsson wrote:

and experience with this lens ... ?

especially shooting outdoors in good light, F5.6, F8, F11 etc , general landscape, walk around etc ?

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