3 lens by Ada Atusia

Name: Olympus ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 4/3 lens
Item: Olympus ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 4/3 lens
Rating: 5

April 13, 2023

I didnt expect the quality to be so high.

I took it before a trip to Europe, on my E-420 there was only a pancake, and there was also a 40-150 telephoto lens. So I never regretted that I bought a whale. The clarity of the picture is beyond praise. You may be lucky with the lens, but clarity is maintained throughout the entire FR range.

To summarize, the lens fully justifies its name KIT, it is 100% suitable for landscape and architectural photography. You can take on a trip in a single copy and be absolutely calm.
For portraiture, I will say again that it’s not for everyone, although if you take your wife and children to photograph, then it’s more than suitable.

Pros

Lightweight, relatively cheap, with a good selection of FR. Pretty tolerable distortion at small FR. For its price, a very worthy design (from other manufacturers Nikon, Canon, Sigma, I have not seen a similar design for such a price. Clear. The most important feature of this device, in my opinion, is that when shooting at close range it gives distortion in the form of an even trapezoid, and not a barrel, like many lenses of this class. Naturally, the correction of the "trapeze" is much easier than that of the "barrel"

Cons

On the one hand, it is a plastic construction. It wobbles a little, but it didn't show up in the pictures. If this can be considered a disadvantage, then this glass has a rather “weak” and, if I may say so, “not very interesting” bokeh on an open aperture. The drawing is quite peculiar (but not for everybody)