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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 9-18 mm f/4.0-5.6 ED
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| Manufacturer | Olympus |
|---|---|
| Model | M.Zuiko Digital 9-18 mm f/4.0-5.6 ED |
| Lens style | Wide angle zoom |
| Focal length | 9 - 18 mm |
| Maximum aperture | f/4 - 5.6 |
| Angle of view | 100 - 62 o |
| Closest focusing distance | 0.25 m |
| Maximum magnification | 1:10 |
| Minimum aperture | 22 |
| Number of diaphragm blades | 7 |
| Auto focus type | AF |
| Lens Construction | 12 elements / 8 groups |
| Filter diameter | 52 mm |
| Macro | No |
| Available mounts | Micro Four Thirds |
| Dimensions | 56.5 x 49.5 mm |
| Weight | 155 g |
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Owners reviews (7)
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Owner since: more than 10 years
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User profile: Semipro
Cons: After a few years of pretty regular use, the internal ribbon cable cracked due most likely to fatigue from zooming the lens in and out, causing the lens to have electrical issues (i.e. to not work) when zoomed beyond 17mm focal length. The lens is extremely cheap feeling (plastic). The lens also exhibits noticeable aberrations.
Pros: Small, light weight, versatile. Accepts screw-on filters.
Summary: Light weight, small, versatile lens. Poor build quality and internal ribbon cable failure to be expected if you take thousands of pictures.
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User profile: Semipro
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Owner since: 3 months
Price: 100$
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Ugly hood, comically extends at 9mm.
Pros: Solid image quality wide open, tiny, quick AF.
Summary: Perfect fit for small cameras.
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Owner since: 2 years
Price: 550 Euro
User profile: Amateur
Cons: At 9 mm good central sharpness but corners relatively soft. Increasingly worse at longer focal lengths, between 14 and 18 mm sub average sharpness. Not suitable for videography: Slow (but silent) and pumping autofocus, focus breathing.
Pros: Very compact and light, low vignetting, filters possible
Summary: At first sight a seducing compact ultradwide lens. However optical quality at 9 mm is ok but not more. Zooming in especially above 12 mm is not recommendes because of cheap kit-lens sharpness an low speed. Not really good for for video. For this it is pretty expensive and you should try to get it used.
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Owner since: 9 years
Price: $600
User profile: Amateur
Cons: odd construction, short when folded very long when activatged with an awkward button pushed plasticky, cheap feel f4 too slow for star photography, marginal for indoor use
Pros: wonderfully light and compact to carry around! convenient 52mm filters! reasonably good sharpness in the center
Summary: over the last 9 years I have occasionally thought about selling this lens but I decided that the pros listed above outweighed other Panasonic or Olympus (7-14 f2.8) alternatives
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Owner since: 4 years
Price: 440
User profile: Amateur
Cons: the Olympus' first implementation of collapsible mechanisme with that pull switch is not perfect
Pros: good optical quality, small size and weight, good match for smaller m43 cameras
Summary: This is an underrated lens. The optical quality is more than good enough for amateur photography. The lens is small and lightweight making it a good match for smaller m43 bodies. I use it for landscape and static indoor (interior design). I would not use it for anything moving in low light (indoor) as it is not fast enough.
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Owner since: 1 year
Price: $400
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Too slow for normal indoor use. It might work OK for slow moving subjects if you have a camera with in body stabilisation. I don't. As soon as you take in indoors and try to photograph a young child or pet it starts to struggle. On those occasions its time to ramp up the iso or better yet switch to a prime...
Pros: Very light compared to other wide angle zooms. Quite sharp image and a very usable zoom range. It goes from ultra wide angle to the wide end of normal range. So actually makes a pretty usable walk around lens for outdoors. I'd call this an excellent "landscape lens".
Summary: An excellent Landscape and walk around lens.Just not Ideal for indoor use.