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Olympus ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 micro Four Thirds Lens for Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Third Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera |  | Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $549.00
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Seller: CameraSpot
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 19070
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 4.5 x 4.2
MPN: ED 14-150mm MFT
Model: ED 14-150mm MFT
UPC: 050332175075
EAN: 0050332175075
ASIN: B0035LBRMQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | High-power wide-angle M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm F4.0-5.6 zoom lens; 35mm equivalent 28-300mm | | • | ED (extra-low dispersion) glass for superior image quality | | • | 100 percent angle of view | | • | Lightweight design; ideal for everything from portraits and indoor scenes to sports and landscape photography | | • | Designed to maximize the performance advantages of the Micro Four Thirds System |
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Product Description
Olympus 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens forEP Series PEN Digital Cameras, BlackThe Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 lens (28-300mm in 35mm equivalent) offers amazing optical performance in an extraordinarily compact and lightweight design that translates into taking your PEN camera anywhere for DSLR-quality images and unmatched freedom and creativity.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A great weight-quality tradeoff August 24, 2010
A. Aiuto (NY)
I purchased this lens along with an Olympus PEN E-PL1 for a safari to Tanzania. While I loved my film SLR and my collection of lenses, it was inappropriate for this trip (changing film and lenses in dust clouds, airport X-rays, and nearly 2000 pictures), so I needed to move to digital with a single zoom lens. I opted to purchase a Micro Four Thirds system rather than a DSLR, hoping that the tradeoffs of sensor size vs. weight vs. price would be good ones.
The total cost was about $1100 (~$500 for the camera (with a 14-32 lens), ~600 for the 14-150mm lens). With Micro 4/3, the effective focal length is twice the rated, so this lens is equivalent to a traditional 28-300mm zoom. I could have picked up an equivalent DSLR setup and lens for about the same price, but it would have weighed over 6 pounds. My combination was about 4 pounds. This was significant when much of the shooting was waiting for several minutes for an animal to "do" something and there was no place to set up even a monopod out the hatch of the safari truck.
My big concern was going to be image quality. The 4/3 sensor is about 30% smaller than a DSLR sensor, but still 5-9 times the size of a compact digital. Fortunately, we were able to do some side-by-side comparisons with photos my daughters took. The larger sensor was clearly better all around - it blows away any of the compact cameras. For example, I was able to get some great shoots of a leopard in a shady tree from about 200 yards away. That was not possible with the compact cameras we had.
Overall, I could not be happier. While the 4/3 sensor clearly will not match the quality possible with a DSLR, it is wonderfully capable and flexible for the serious amateur. This lens is our new travel companion.
A good enough lens for the M4/3 system July 24, 2010
Harry M. Shin (Livermore, CA USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
1. I recently purchased this lens for my EP-1 and will put forth some observations about this lens.
* Size: As most reviews of this lens have noted, it's obviously longer than the 14-42mm Olympus kit lens. However, the "how much longer" is only truly appreciated when you mount it on you camera; when you do so, you'll think silently "... hum, this is a bit longer than I thought it would be." But depending on your expectations / purposes for this lens, it may or may not matter. For myself, I knew ahead of time that this lens was going to be overtly longer than the kit lens and thus I was prepared for it. Furthermore, since the 14-42mm kit lens, although smaller, is not a very compact lens like the 17mm pancake, the EP-1 with the 14-42mm is never going to be a combo where I'm going to be able to put it in my large pockets etc... Thus, I would need to carry the EP-1 + 14-42mm in a case etc... If that's the case (and it is with me), having the EP-1 with the 14-150mm is no big deal because it's still compact enough to still fit in my case and it's certainly light weight.
* Build Quality: basically... decent enough--> translation--> overt plastics. Olympus is trying to keep costs down so as to attract as many folks into the micro 4/3 camp. However at some point, please--> make some lens that don't feel like a semi-toy. With that being said, the optics are good and in the end--> it's all about the pictures.
* Focus: One of the biggest reasons I transitioned to this lens from the kit 14-42mm was the annoying way the kit lens had to refocus each time and the in / out movements it had to go through. Everytime I would use the kit lens, it made me feel like I was using some first generation autofocus lens from the 1980s. This lens, although not lightening fast, definitely focuses smoother and quicker than the 14-42mm, which may not be saying much to some folks, but bottomline, it focuses quicker, quieter and "better" for whatever that means. If you have the new 9-18mm micro 4/3 lens, it focuses like that lens.
* Image quality: very good. As with all of the Olympus lens thus far (in the micro 4/3 line), this lens gives clear, sharp, nicely rendered color images etc... I won't and can't go into a technical analysis of the lens, but in general, when viewing the images taken with the camera, most will be very happy with the results. No surprises here.
* Speed: As everyone knows, you can't have everything in life. If you want a faster lens, you're going to end up with a bigger lens... and a more expensive lens... or a lens with a smaller focal length range (which is what I would argue for). I along with everyone else would have liked a faster lens, but this is basically a consumer grade all in one, does everything lens and thus f4 is in line with this kind of product.
2. In summary, this is a very good lens for all Olympus micro 4/3 users who understand and accept the limitations of this lens. Now as wish list to Olympus: please come out with some quality (optically and build quality) lens, esp prime lens.
Good Image Quality, but... July 21, 2010
Miguel (Seattle)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This lens is a fine addition for anyone with one of the new Olympus four thirds cameras, i.e. the EP-1 or EP-2. It's about half the size and weight of a comparable SLR lens and the image quality is excellent. My only gripe is that its maximum aperture is only 4.0. Seems to me that Olympus could have engineered a one half stop or full stop faster lens. Plus, auto focus is nearly unacceptably slow, especially in low light. There is a lot of back and forth searching before auto focus locks on. So, this is NOT a lens for fast moving subjects. With these limitations, it seems a bit overpriced at $600.00.
 Still performance great. Video performance terrible. August 22, 2010
TDKSP (California)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2L0F49HB12MTY Recently bought this lens with great expectation for use on my E-P1 primarily for video based on latest assertions from Olympus. Olympus makes great boasts about the speed of AF being optimized for video as well as still photos. Well, no problem with quick auto focus for stills performs is as good as Panasonic but not quite as accurate all the time. The real problems become apparent when you shoot video with the lens not so much with the auto focus, it is pretty good, but not even close to the Panasonic offerings (14-45, 45-200, 14-140)for speed, accuracy or SOUND feedback from the AF system. The sound picked up by the camera microphone of the constant AF operation is loud and ruins any video sound track. Maybe an external MIC would work on some models (E-PL1 or E-P2) but not my E-P1 as there is no such option.
The second HUGE dissappointment is how terrible the in body IS treats video recordings especially at longer focal lengths. The in camera IS was set to Mode 1. When panning, Mode 2 IS may help some, however,Olympus ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 micro Four Thirds Lens for Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Third Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera the video warps the scene both horizontally and vertically trying to stabilize the camera/lens resulting in a quivering of the video totally destroying the quality. The only solution with this lens is to turn the body IS off and use a tripod for longer focal lengths.
If you want to shoot video with the E-P series, use Panasonic lens based IS with trul silent AF operation. The Panasonic lenses are light years ahead of Olympus for video and truly warrant their substantially higher price.
Be Cautious about using the new Panasonic 14-42, being shipped with the G2 and G10, on the E-P system because the lens IS does NOT work under the current Olympus 1.4 firmware. When I contacted Olypus Customer Service about how to activate the lens IS in the new 14-42, they were not even aware of the new lens. Hopefully, a future firmware upgrade will make the lens IS functional. However, I returned the lens as unacceptable and will use a Panasonic lens instead.
Check out my brief video to demonstrate what my concerns are with this lens and In Body IS when shooting video at long focal lengths.
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