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Cons: Only f3.5-5.6

Pros: Tack sharp wide open, its ridiculous for a kit zoom.

Summary: If you\'re on a budget, this thing is a no brainer in MFT.

Cons: My sample was very soft at the short end. Rather cool color.

Pros: Very sharp at the long end.

Summary: Rather expensive for a basic lens, especially regarding the performance.

Cons: Some vignetting wide open at wide angle

Pros: Still the very best budget kit-lens for MFT. If you have a tight budget or if you need a more portable option than the Olympus 2.8/12-40 and still want decent sharpness / image quality all over the frame at all apertures and zoom levels, this lens will not disappoint. It weighs 200 gr, takes 52 mm filters and is a bit bigger than the more modern alternatives from Oly or Pana. But it is way better.

Summary: In 2021 still true: Buy it used and forget about all the other entry level kit lenses in the Olympus- or Panasonic-lineup.

Cons: Nothing to cause perspiration!

Pros: Compact; quality performer with easy handling; very sharp at f5.6; few if any technical worry points; best kit lens of all the other DSLR brand buys made before.

Summary: Firm favourite for excellent results, easy portability and useful range. Comfortable handling and good durability. This lens is how kit choices should be - dependable, high quality, and with no desire to dash out and buy a costly replacement. See no reason not to be truly satisfied 100%. It's a case of full marks to Panasonic for setting a really high benchmark in a field of compromises..

Cons: plastic buildt

Pros: still stopped down a few to f5.6-8 very sharp, much more better than 14-42 lens, use ist with G-1 (1.4 firmware), really very sharp, nice colors and high contrast

Summary: an extraordinary set lens wuth really high qualities

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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.

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

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.

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

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.