This deal had disappeared for a while, but I noticed in my watchlist that it is back down near to it's previous price of $354.74.
Olympus M ED 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 micro Four Thirds Lens for Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Third Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera - (International Version)
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I’ve owned both this and the Panasonic Leica 8-18. For anyone wondering about the quality of the images: this thing punches well above its weight in terms of sharpness and image quality. The only issues I had with it were that it wasn’t weather sealed, it slowed my sitting down because I kept the lens stowed and therefore had to unlock it every time, and it reset its focus point every time it was locked or the camera was turned off. If you’re a landscape photographer shooting MF that last point might annoy you as much as it did me.
Other than that, it’s compact, lightweight and cheap and certainly feels cheap, but the photos it produced were hard to distinguish from the more expensive lens in terms of quality. It just would’ve taken more time and effort to achieve said shot
thanks… I couldn't resist at that price.
Do I need this over my Lumix 25 mm?
Apples and oranges.
Get it anyway
any good nifty-fifty (50/55mm) lenses for my canon 2000d / rebel t7?
the 18-55mm kit lense is i have is ok, but i imagine with a better lens the camera would be better
Do you shoot at 50-ish mm a lot? Almost any half decent 50 1.4/1.8/2.8 prime will outperform your kit lens at 50mm. That's like a portrait length on APS-C, and a 50mm at f1.4 - 1.8 will produce a fairly narrow depth of field that will suit portraiture well.
Should be lots of used options around, and if you don't mind manual control you can adapt a lot of old lenses from other systems to your Canon.
Very tempting… but I rarely take out my EM10 mk2 these days.
What if this is THE lens that gets you motivated again and reignites the passion for photography mate
Doubtful… I have two other wide angle lenses… a Sigma 10-20 on EF-S mount and a Nikon 6.7-13mm for my Nikon 1 bodies… rarely use them too.
I have an UWA on my mobile phone… use to one since late 2019 and now that I'm using an S23 Ultra, I'll likely reach for a dedicated camera less.
oh nnooooo i shouldnttttttt but the price is pretty good oooooo