Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm F4 IS Pro Lens, suitable for all MFT cameras (Olympus OM-D & PEN models, Panasonic G-series), black

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The trickier question is whether within the same M4/3 universe you’d be better served by a few faster primes at similar cost; I think this is a tricky one to answer and depends on how often you shoot in low light or inclement weather situations (the primes are not as well sealed as this 12-200). Zuiko 12-100mm F4 provides such a versatile range in such a well-built package that I really did feel ready for anything. If you need help deciding which camera and lens combination are best for you, then why not check out our specially selected camera packages. Zuiko 12-100mm F4 is that unless you need to stop down for depth of field or another reason, the lens is more than sharp enough to just shoot wide-open all the time.Better still: for traveling the equivalency goes against FF, as maintaining wide DOF is critical if you are to go through these photos 10 years later. The reason this has been pushed back so long is because I knew I was exiting Olympus, and I wanted this review to be written after I had left the company. For other cameras, you also need the firmware update, mainly to tell the body to use which Image stabilization.

Furthermore depth of field is better if you need more in low light and you cannot get it on larger format, check your cellphone. Flare is pretty well controlled, but I'm not super sold on the sunstars; stopping down more will help, but on Micro Four Thirds, that's guaranteed to soften the image. On the wider end of things, the 12-100mm is more than a match for the 20MP sensor in the E-M1 Mark II even at F4.We'll be ramping up lens review content in this type of format, and so all feedback – especially critical feedback – is important. I have lots of primes, plus the 12-40, but the swell range of this is lovely for a an 86 year-old camera bravissima. This lens has been compared to the Tamron 28-200 FF zoom in this comment thread, because the equivalent reach is similar. Both the first sample I had of it and the second showed a very blurred or ghosted left side of the frame, worse in the lower left corner, Where it was almost impossible to see what was going on there, just blur. The Olympus 12-100 F4 lens is ambitious in design, covering a 35mm equivalent focal range from 24mm to 200mm.

I will have to say this right up front that the Olympus 12-100mm f/4 Dual IS is the best super zoom I’ve ever used. Of course there are smaller M4/3 lenses, but these are not as fast, or they don’t have the same zoom range.I think that these discussions are important, and I really do want to understand where the content falls short of expectations. For the past few weeks we've been running a series of polls to find out what you - our readers - think of the major product releases of 2016. I understand this claim if you are talking about your one-hand macro approach but usually, the left hand takes the major part of the weight and the right hand just the operates the control buttons and wheels. That said, the larger grips of the E-M1 Mark III and E-M1X mean it actually balances quite well on those bodies. While this lens was never going to be a bokeh machine owing to its F4 maximum aperture, you can absolutely get some subject isolation depending on your distance to subject and focal length.