Description

Description

• A compact, lightweight and weather-sealed professional standard zoom lens for the Micro Four Thirds system.
• Featuring a 35mm equivalent focal range of 24-90mm, covering wide-angle to portrait perspectives.
• Offering a constant maximum aperture of f/4 throughout its zoom range, which is suitable for most lighting conditions.
• Comprised of 12 elements arranged in 9 groups, including an aspherical and a dual-super aspherical element.
• Featuring Olympus’ ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating to control aberrations, ghosting and flare.

Image Quality

• It delivers high image quality, with excellent sharpness, contrast and colour rendition across the frame and throughout the zoom range.
• It has very low levels of chromatic aberrations, distortion and vignetting, thanks to the optical design and in-camera corrections.
• It produces smooth and pleasing bokeh, thanks to the f/4 aperture and the seven rounded aperture blades.
• It has good resistance to flare and ghosting, thanks to the ZERO coating and the lens hood.

Build Quality

• It has a high standard of build quality, fully living up to the PRO designation that Olympus have given it.
• It is very small and light for a standard zoom lens, measuring 70mm in length and weighing 254g.
• It is weather sealed, with a metal lens mount and a rubber seal around the mount.
• It comes with a petal lens hood that bayonets firmly into position.

Other Features

• It offers fast and quiet autofocus, with an internal focusing mechanism and a responsive manual focus ring.
• The 58mm filter thread does not rotate on focus, which is convenient for using polarizers and graduated filters.
• Manual focusing is possible in a focus-by-wire fashion, which enables the camera to display a magnified view of the subject automatically.
• It has a very close minimum focusing distance of 12cm at 12mm and 23cm at 45mm and a maximum magnification of 0.5x at both ends of the zoom, making it a versatile lens for close-up photography.