📷 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 EZ Lens: A Versatile Silver Lens for Micro Four Thirds Cameras Review

Just received last night around 7:30 so it was getting dark. I opened it up on the OMD 5 and ran outside to check it out. Some may shake their heads reading my review, but I'm not a photographer and don't have an in-depth knowledge of mm-stops or f-stops. I use a camera for personal reasons, although I've done weddings, baby showers and photo shows for those who couldn't afford it, but I do it because I love photography. From what I thought at first when I attached it to the camera, it seems…

This will be a raving five star review of the product so let me take my complaints to the supplier. Revain offered this through Electronics Basket LLC, which I had never heard of before, at a 22.6% discount, which at the time of purchase was the only discounted price I could find for this lens. The day after I received it they started offering it 25% off from Sunset Electronics but such is life. The most annoying thing is the packaging I received it in: a white box with no markings, no…

When this lens was first released, it was criticized on review sites for its optical limitations. While that criticism was certainly warranted, I think it's important to balance those concerns with this lens's ease of use for the average user. Optics In personal use I find the optics of this lens acceptable. At 12mm the optics are not bad. From f/3.5 the lens is fairly sharp, sharpening only slightly once the aperture is reached. This lens cannot and should not be compared to the Oly 12mm…