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A personal Samsung 16-50 PZ f3.5-5.6 Review plus comparisons

Started Jul 15, 2014 | User reviews thread
Ben Herrmann
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To Zipcode - RE: The Canon EOS M kit lens

As you know (perhaps based on my posting on that forum in the past), I enjoy the Canon M series 18-55.  It's built like a tank, has a metal mount, and can capture wonderfully sharp photos (but on a Canon, its wide reach becomes only 29 MM).  But I have to say - thanks in part to being able to shoot with so many different cameras - that with regards to image clarity (I'm hesitant to use the term "clinical"), the Samsung 16-50 PZ bests it (IMO, that is).  Perhaps I should preface my remarks by using the phrase, "with my copy ('cause there can be copy to copy variations in quality, you know).

This is not to denigrate the Canon M series 18-55 lens at all because it holds it's own.  For what it is - meaning design (Power Zoom type of kit lenses - which typically aren't the best) - this Samsung 16-50 leads that genre by a long shot.

Another kit lens that I found fascinating (albeit shorter in the longer end of the focal reach) is the Panasonic 12-32 (equivalent to a 24-64 MM zoom).  I became so impressed with that lens that I purchased two of them - one to be kept on my Oly E-PL7 and the other for my Panasonic GF6.  The clarity of that lens (although not a Power Zoom lens), along with the compactness can be astounding at times.

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Have a great one....
Bernd (Ben) W. Herrmann
North Carolina, USA
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