OM SYSTEM Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 9-18mm F4.0-5.6 Lens, for Micro Four Thirds Cameras

This lens is a gem. It is compact and lightweight. It is also reasonably sharp at ultrawide setting. Excellent for both indoor and outdoor.

Ottime immagini per chi ama i grandangoli spinti

It works as described. A wide-angle various focus lens

Arrived on time and is of great quality. Certainly enhanced my digital internal photography

I did about 100 shots with this lens yesterday and I am very pleased with the results. It is expensive, but it is also good. Wide angle lenses tend to be more expensive than other focal lengths and this one is no exception. I like the size, the weight, the focal range, the ability of the barrel to retract into the housing for carrying, and the fact that it accepts filters. When I considered the price and weight, I was reminded of a description of the XB-70 aircraft -- it cost more than its weight in gold to build. Equating the weight and price to my automobile, my car would have cost $6.7 million. One thing I am going to have to learn to do is to grab the zoom ring without touching the focusing ring. I touched the focus ring nearly every time I wanted to zoom, causing the camera to shift to magnifying mode with a corresponding delay and distraction in shooting. This is a consequence of the compact size. The lens is black and it is small, so take care about where you sit it down when you take it off the camera. It would be easy to loose -- it more than one way. When you first look at the front element, it might appear that there is some defect on an inner surface of one of the outer elements. These spots are apparently caused by internal reflections. You may see multiple, small points of light with one or more of them green. Nearly all of the spots were a little off center, but none of them moved as I rotated the lens; indicating that it was not on the glass. And, I notice no issues with the images produced. This lens with the PAN 14-45 f3.5-5.6 and PAN 45-150 would give you a light weight 3 lens kit that expands from 9mm to 150mm (18mm to 300mm 35mm equivalent); with the other two lenses combined costing less than this one lens.