What small lenses?

14-42 EZ 42mm macro closeup is surprisingly good.
 
EPL8, 14-42mm EZ, 12mm f2, Panasonic 35-100mm f4-5.6.

Another set is Leica 12-60mm with Olympus 40-150mm R.
I've been looking back at my old stuff recently, and have been surprised at how particularly nicely the E-PL8 performs with the little 14-42EZ... giving me some properly "rich" images.

May have been the light, the weather or just good luck, but most pleasing whatever the reason!

Peter
I think the 14-42EZ is underrated by a lot of folks. I had the PL12-32 pancake and swapped it out in favor of the 14-42EZ just for the manual focus ring. The 12mm end was nice but the image quality was not better, IMO. I have two copies of the 14-42 EZ and there is a slight IQ difference between the two. Image below is with the 14-42EZ/OM-5 Hand Held Hi Rez.



 
EPL8, 14-42mm EZ, 12mm f2, Panasonic 35-100mm f4-5.6.

Another set is Leica 12-60mm with Olympus 40-150mm R.
I've been looking back at my old stuff recently, and have been surprised at how particularly nicely the E-PL8 performs with the little 14-42EZ... giving me some properly "rich" images.

May have been the light, the weather or just good luck, but most pleasing whatever the reason!

Peter
a lot of my favourite photos were taken with the EPL5.

Perhaps Oly tweaked the EPL series?

Allan
 
1. 15 f1.7 In my opinion the must.

2. If you need weather protection then 20 f1.4

3. 12-40 f2.8

4. 14-150 good to have

The only pancake I use is the 14 f2.5 and that's on a pen.

These are the lenses I kept the last 10 years.

I don't know about the new f4 zooms though.
 
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