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Is Panasonic 14-45 still the best cheap start zoom today ?

Started Mar 17, 2015 | Questions thread
tkbslc Forum Pro • Posts: 17,527
Re: Is Panasonic 14-45 still the best cheap start zoom today ?

Hithertoo wrote:

In my honest opinion the best kit lens is the Olympus 14-42 II R followed closely by the Panasonic 14-42 II but you're on Panasonic, so you might also consider the 12-32 pancake which is about equal to the aforementioned lens but gives you a noticeably wider 12mm lens on the short end.

The difference between 32 and 42 is really nothing in the real world on the long end. Both lenses aren't long enough to use for portraits as they don't get to 100 and they're too short to be considered a serious telephoto zoom.

42mm is 84mm equivalent on 2x crop.  85mm equivalent is one of the all time classic portrait lengths.  So I'd say that definitely the 14-42 is long enough for that.

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