Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 on OM-D E-M10 Mark II
When was the last time you heard people praising the kit lens, for their sharpness, the stunning colors and overall image quality? Kit lens is something most people would not stay with very long after they bought their first system camera, many looking for options to upgrade to L Lens from Canon, Zesis/G Master Lens from Sony or even Olympus Pro Zoom/Prime lenses. Well you cannot blame them, most of the kit lens bundle together with entry level camera and some of the mid-level to higher level APS-C DSLR cameras performing less than mediocre.
But I can tell you that not for the case of Olympus kit lens, at first I was skeptic when friends using the Olympus commending about it and to be honest before I bought my OM-D E-M10 Mark II, I was already looking at the Pro zoom lens and Prime lens to replace the kit lens. When I got the OM-D E-M10 Mark II on a Saturday morning, I was together with my family. We are going "kai kai" with the kiddos, so I thought I just use first, maybe next week change the kit lens.
After a long day out with the kiddos, and massive shooting with them, I was speechless. They are so good (a bit slow on focusing) that I thought the shop had mistakenly given me a more premium type of zoom lens. I check and recheck and read the description on the lens itself!! Well, pictures really show more than a thousand words.
All of the test shots were captured with the Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 EZ pancake kit lens using Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II, shooting in JPEG Large Fine only, I used aperture priority exposure modes and the Natural picture style for the first 2 photos and Enhance picture style for the other 2 photos.
I'm reviewing base on real world hands on, as a tools. There will be no charts or numbers, I find them pointless.
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| Natural picture style, 18mm @ f5.6, Aperture Priority |
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| Crop of the above original photos |
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| Enhance picture style, 14mm @ f10, Aperture Priority |
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| Corp of the above original photo |
Look at the sharpness, you no need any pro lens to do that. Olympus kit lens can do the job nicely. Olympus 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ is so good, right out of box, even better than my Sony A350 kit lens 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 when I first purchase it in 2008.
Test Shots
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| HDB Flats |
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| Bus stop |
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| The Intern |
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| The Canteen |
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| Work Place |
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| Lego Nexo Knights |
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| Marche Green Cows |
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| Winner |
Beginners, amateurs or even pros of photography, when you first got your camera system, and the kit lens bundles with the camera, did your friends started to psycho you on how the kit lens suck and they even how-lian (show off) you images from their higher grade lenses. They went on and on to you how sharp their lenses were, and how they can produce more "pro" look, which you know that your lousy kit lens cannot. Then you start to loose interest in using the kit lens, and march to the camera store to buy that Pro and Premium Zoom lens that you had been poison to, so that you can do what your peers can do? Give it a try first, shoot it for a week or two then decide whether to upgrade or hold. I'm still holding it, didn't get any Pro zoom lens yet, only 2 prime lens and they are very cheap to begin with. Will do a review with test shots on the 2 prime lens.
Next article will do a review/test shots on one of the budget Prime lens. So see you all next week
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