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Small Gem Kit lens for M 4/3

Started Jul 11, 2014 | User reviews thread
DF58 New Member • Posts: 14
Re: Small Gem Kit lens for M 4/3 (Loose Mount?)

jnat wrote:

A dealer should have other lenses on hand, and it should not take much experimentation to determine if the problem is the mount on the camera or the mount on the kit lens. Sounds like something needs adjusted or replaced.

That is what we tried today. They had got another GX7+14-42Kit Zoom in with a view to replacing mine. It showed the same problem.

We tried the mid-long zoom (metal mount) and it was much much more solid. Which would tend to point towards something systemicly wrong with (as a minimum the batch of) the kit zooms. They expect another batch in in a few weeks.

We are puzzled however. Manufacturing variability (which is our current suspicion) is now very rare. We wondered if this was the price to be paid for getting the camera down to a certain price point and that the people attracted to it were previously "point and shooters" (with no experience of lens mounts) and have not complained?

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