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Panasonic G VARIO 14-45 mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. M.O.I.S.
Specifications:
| Manufacturer | Panasonic |
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| Model | G VARIO 14-45 mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. M.O.I.S. |
| Lens style | Universal zoom |
| Focal length | 14 - 45 mm |
| Maximum aperture | f/3.5 - 5.6 |
| Angle of view | 75 - 27 o |
| Closest focusing distance | 0.3 m |
| Maximum magnification | 1:2.9 |
| Minimum aperture | 22 |
| Number of diaphragm blades | 7 |
| Auto focus type | AF |
| Lens Construction | 12 elements / 9 groups |
| Filter diameter | 52 mm |
| Macro | No |
| Available mounts | Micro Four Thirds |
| Dimensions | 60 x 60 mm |
| Weight | 195 g |
| Additional information |
Average rating (5 owners reviews).
| Build quality | 4.40 |   |
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| Optical quality | 4.40 | |
| Value for money | 4.40 | |
| Overall | 4.40 | |
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Owner since: 3 years
Price: kit includ
User profile: Amateur
Cons: nothing to complain about
Pros: well build and good balanced, acceptable fast autofocus, sharp to very sharp pictures, shipped with lens hood and lens bag and two caps
Summary: It's a kit lens but still worth more than that. It's acceptable fast, is very sharp and has an acceptable bokeh for such a lens.
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Owner since: 1 month
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User profile: Amateur
Cons: Limited range-slow at tele end, macro range limited
Pros: Small. Sharp and smooth to zoom
Summary: Traded the 14-42mm that came with the G3 kit as it had an unaceptab le plastic mount and the zoom did not feel smooth. All the reports found the 14-45mm slightly better in all respects. Photios so far up to expectations with good saturation and excellent stabilisation. However, I moved from a Canon 450d to downsize and miss the speed of the fabulous Sigma 17-70mm which had 2.8 at the wide end and f4 at the longer tele end. However, the Sigma costs about £300 and the Panny can be bought for half that or less on ebay. The Sigma is also a huge lens and if you are into downsizing, as I am, the Panny is first rate. Sigma are moving into micro4/3rds so we should soon see some interesting alternatives to the brand name lenses
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Owner since: 1 month
Price: S$210
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Small aperture, macro ability inferior to oly 1442, size bigger than oly counterpart
Pros: Very sharp for a kit lens, distortion minimal after correction, useful focal length, effective OIS
Summary: A very good standard zoom for M4/3. I got tired of the fixed angle of view of the 20 1.7, so I bought this lens and I do not regret. Though it significantly increases the size of the GF1, it is still relatively small compared to SLRs.
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Owner since: 6 months
Price: N/A: kit-l
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Macro / Closeup photography limited, slightly soft at 45 mm
Pros: good optical quality for a standard kit lens; effective OIS; silent and fast AF
Summary: good lens for standard situations
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Owner since: 2 years
Price: N/A: kit l
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Small apertures best avoided because they give very soft results. It took me ages to realise than anything lower than f8 is hardly ever needed.
Pros: A versatile lens. Very good results all around the frame and throughout the zoom range. Sharpening of RAW images is always needed though and the default Lightroom and ACR settings will rarely be enough.
Summary: By all accounts a far better standard kit lens than anything Olympus have thus far produced. Presumably Panasonic provided the inferior 14-42mm on later cameras simply to keep the prices down. A very good lens indeed.
