Highlights
Quality
Still, highly versatile and build quality is superb.
In low light you get more of it, and in reasonable light you have a wider range of apertures which will return good quality ima... Read More
Best image quality is to be found 2 stops down from the max - and this is probably the same for all lenses.
Build quality: nice build quality, being metal and weather sealed.
Competitiveness
This being a panasonic lumix lens it does contain its own optical image stabilization (ois).
I have tried also recording in prores on the ninja 2 with same results.
I managed to get this at a great price from amazon - so it took some months to arrive (presumably from abroad).
Overview
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- This product had a total of 65 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 16 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The images have lovely colour and pop
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So nothing bad to say about it at all apart form i should have bought 2 one for each camera
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just to state the obvious this is not a cheap lens
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
By the time you subtract the price of 2 prime lenses from the price of this one you see that the premium for the zooming and the avoidance of constant lens swapping is not that high at all
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Normally with 101 lenses reviewers grizzle about image quality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Normally i have it switched off and let my olympus body wiggle the sensor around for image stabilization
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But for the future it does mean that i could buy a lumix micro four thirds body and still get image stabilization an option which would be closed had it been an olympus lens