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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14 mm F2.8 PRO Lens, Wide Angle Zoom, Suitable for All MFT Cameras (Olympus OM-D & PEN Models, Panasonic G Series), Black

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It's also easy to distinguish the zoom ring from the focus ring, even though the two are close together. For example if you keep the sensor and the lens as parallel as possible to the vertical and horizontal lines in the scene you are are photographing, distortion is almost absent even in the case of vertical lines that are on the left or right edges of the frame.

It stacks up against the DSLR lens offerings from Canon and Nikon in every way with superb optical quality and build.

I do feel that those still interested have circled the wagons to an extent and there are certainly some groups that are picking up momentum. I illustrated this in my OMD EM1 review where the same composition shot with the Lumix GX7 revealed the same flare artefacts in the same positions, but with a different intensity / colour. Yes, Olympus is making the Pro lenses so much the same, that sometimes handling turns out to be identical. Both employ the same motor-assisted mechanism, but pulling the ring back switches the camera to manual focus mode with visual assistance which can include magnification and focus peaking. A suite of aspherical, extra-low dispersion and high-refractive index elements are featured within the optical design and help to minimize spherical and chromatic aberrations throughout the zoom range for increased clarity and sharpness.

I’ve presented crops taken from the f4 versions of both below, and it’s clear the Lumix G 7-14mm sample is exhibiting the infamous flare artefacts while the Olympus 7-14mm avoids them.While it stays underneath the plastic hood, at 7mm the front element is very much exposed, so when not shooting I advise you to set it back to 14mm to protect it.

Wide open it may be my sharpest m4/3 zoom I've tested in the central region, and that's at 7mm and out to about 10mm. Although the lens is weather sealed, the huge front element will easily pick up spray or rain drops.A Wide-angle 7-14mm zoom lens offers a 14-28mm equivalent focal length range for Micro Four Thirds digital cameras. With an angle of view equivalent to 14-28mm on full frame, the 7-14mm is the joint-widest rectilinear lens for Micro Four Thirds.

Instead this is provided by the camera body, in this instance the excellent 5-axis system in the OM-D E-M5 Mk II.

This is where we can become challenged, and even frustrated by composing and shooting at such wide angles of view.

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