Pros & Cons
Pros
The 14-42 is a good lens that works well with the panasonic m43 cameras. Makes the cam/lense set-up more portable, even coat pocketable! The size means the gh2 looks like an unobtrusive compact. Used with an olympus epl5 with great results.
Highlights
Quality
I am using it with my lumix g3 and the picture quality is out of this world.
The quality of the images is great though, and the size means the gh2 looks like an unobtrusive compact.
This quality lens has no image stabilisation (but hardly needs it).
Build quality is good, a metal mount with plastic outer casing, comes with front and rear lens caps, case but no lens hood.
Competitiveness
Neat, unobtrusive, very effectively paired with panasonic's lumix gf-2.
Bought this for my wife's olympus e-pl1.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The best kit is with a panasonic gf1 o gf2 its like having a smaller leica with a normal lens
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is almost permanently on my epl2 and the kit lens that came with the camera has hardly been used
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I must have been locked up when i bought my six lenses
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A small walkaround prime lens youre likely to leave on your camera most of the time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However wide open it does have some vignetting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But stopping down to say f4 eliminates most of that problem
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Af is average but it is more challenging to get it right at a wide aperture
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When shooting video af noises can be heard so i recommend turning off countinuous af on your camera and to use af before recording