My wife and I both have this lens and really like it a lot, for all the reasons that you mentioned. It pretty much lives on my EM-5. I almost sold it to get the 12-200 but decided against doing that. Both the price and size difference wasn’t enough to justify switching for me. Thank you for a very good review of this lens.
I have this lens, too, although I haven't been keen on zoom lenses in the past. I do take it outside and the weather sealing is a great feature. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.
Hi Robin - Thanks and completely agree with you. Prime lenses have something special beyond their bokeh capabilities. However the zoom range, weight and weather sealing make this a great choice for hiking!
Hi & thanks for the review of this lens, which I very recently bought new and is my new default lens. I watched your demos and wonder if the videos would focus better, if not perfectly, if you used an OM-1 rather than an OM-D? I guess I can find out for myself, but wondering if you have a POV. thx!!
Thank you for mentioning Panasonic and Tamron lenses. Through many searches, you are the only place where I found mentioned other brands. I do have a question though: Would the Panasonic lens work well with Olympus EM5 iii camera?
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, M43 Panasonic lenses work on all Olympus M43 cameras with exchangeable lenses (like the M5 iii), except for the OIS functionality (Optical Image Stabilization in the lens).
The fact that you’re able to zoom so far with a lens that small is impressive enough. Lowlight with a dated em1.1 is very impressive. Makes me want to consider this lens for my em1.3 as a walk about piece of kit. Great review!
Love this lens for the same reasons as you stated; versatility, size & weight It`s perfect for just walking around taking pictures of everything from nature to architecture and abstract elements etc Mounted on the omd e-m5 m3, the creative possibilities are also excellent Have other camera systems which is also good and more expensive, but have to say, this olympus combination is close to perfect for my style of photography 👌🏼✨
Hello. RU-vid showed your video for me to watch. I heard your remark about AF-MF switch - the more expensive Pro lenses have a mechanical clutch. For lenses such as this, I normally set to S-AF-MF - that means half press of the shutter button will perform S-AF but you can still rotate the focus ring to MF any time
Interesting commentary. Like you, I have the Olympus 75-300mm which is a lot of fun to use. But instead of the 14-150mm I have a (used) Lumix 14-140 F3.5-5.6. Very similar, quite sharp and also highly recommended. For a wider view, I can recommend the new Panasonic 9mm F 1.7 which is very small/light, and ideal in low light.
with how good the AI denoise is now in adobe camera raw low light shooting is much less of an issue than ever before. I know it still struggles in very dark scenes such as astrophotography but scenes with lots of mid tones it works very well. I've shot at iso 12,500 and the AI denoise removed so much noise you would think it was shot at iso200. Great video!
This lens was the reason that I bought an Olympus EM5 m2. It is weather resistant and none of the SONY lenses were in the equivalent 18-200 APS-C range. I still have my SONY-s and just bought an a6700 but the Olympus is the camera I take more often than not.
There's the Tamron 18-300 which is weather sealed. Not to the same standards of m43, and bigger too, but I'll be comfortable taking it out even in a light rain with frequent wipe downs.
@@professionalpotato4764 The Tamron lens didn't exist yet when I got my Olympus EM5 m2. Sony has, in the past couple of years, released a few premium weather resistant APS-C lenses, but still has nothing like the variety of Olympus (now OM) PRO weather resistant lenses available. Don't get me wrong, I really like my SONY cameras too and have recently bought some fine, newer, Sony lenses (the 16-55 f2.8 G, the 15mm f1.4 G and the 10-20mm f4). I am also considering the 70-350 zoom but have not made up my mind yet.
