Olympus M.14-42MM F3.5-5.6 2R Zuiko Camera Zoom Lens Black

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars | 174 ratings

Price: 99.99

Last update: 12-22-2024


About this item

Collapsible wide to portrait lens
7 aperture blades (circular aperture diaphragm for natural background blurring)
3x zoom range covers everything from landscapes to portraits
Nearly silent movie and still compatible auto focus, great for movie shooting
Close focusing down to 9.84 inches
14 42 mm (35mm equivalent focal length 28 84 mm)
7 (circular aperture diaphragm for natural background blurring)
37mm filter size
Ver. II R, Nearly Silent MSC Lens Drive
F/3.5 5.6

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Top reviews from the United States

A Gottschald
5.0 out of 5 stars A suprise
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2024
Bought this to go with my pen F didn't really expect much but what a surprise has a good zoom range good colour and even worked well enough in the macro. I really like this lens it's also light weight too. Good for travel.
Gallardo
5.0 out of 5 stars Get it
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2024
Lens is bright and produce good images. Occasionally auto focus has a mind of its own but it is occasionally and can be overlooked because of the images it produces. Bokeh is very good in this lens. Worth the money. Also, it is 50mm equivalent to full frame. Good for walk around lens because even when you crop wide photos images look good.
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Gallardo
5.0 out of 5 stars Get it
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2024
Lens is bright and produce good images. Occasionally auto focus has a mind of its own but it is occasionally and can be overlooked because of the images it produces. Bokeh is very good in this lens. Worth the money. Also, it is 50mm equivalent to full frame. Good for walk around lens because even when you crop wide photos images look good.
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Bobby Danger
5.0 out of 5 stars Great lens that might require some breaking in (if you're in video)
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
Full disclosure, I'm not a professional. I love my camera, I love shooting video, and I am really enjoying this lens, but consider a grain of salt if you're a working professional shooting every day and looking for a review to stake part of your livelihood on. That said, I'll speak from the heart/wallet.

This lens was a replacement for me of a much cheaper lens of similar specs, albeit at a shorter maximum focal length. But even more than the long zoom, the first thing that struck me right out of the box is that this lens feels solid and built to last.

I haven't done a definitive test of focal qualities, but in casual use I've found that the focus is consistent from the widest to tightest focal length. That is, I haven't had to refocus going from a wide shot to tight, which I understand to be the case in higher-quality lenses. I have not observed any softness at maximum zoom, personally.

So my one critique of this lens - and I'm reluctant to even call it a critique, as it feels like a reasonable break-in step to me - is that the action on the zoom was a little sticky at first. Turning the zoom ring by hand, it required significantly higher effort around the mid-zoom mark - just enough that doing a smooth zoom, as one might want in certain film genres, wasn't possible. BY NO MEANS was it so difficult I felt I'd endanger the lens; definitely not a manufacture issue, nothing jammed or anything like that. My focus motor also had trouble with it, for what it's worth; I use a Ronin S2 gimbal and its accessory focus motor when I'm shooting video, and here I repurposed the focus motor for zoom, attempting some genre-specific camera work. The motor calibration got hung up on the sticky spot, and once I overcame that, the actual zoom motion was still sticky and inhibited.

I looked into this and several professionals' websites recommended both "breaking it in" and lubricating it properly (which requires not only lens-specific lube, but the right lube for the particular lens manufacturer, and frankly, I'm cheap) so I started with breaking it in. Just kept the lens on my desk for a couple days, and during free moments I'd twist the zoom ring back and forth through its extents, for a few minutes at a time. I probably spent less than 30 minutes total on this before the action became considerably smoother - a truly minor investment for smooth-zooming action. Having done this, I'm confident I can snap-zoom by hand and slow-zoom with the focus motor when I want to.

In short, I'm happy with this lens. It'll fit a different role in your kit, I'm sure, but it's my first zoom and the versatility of it, after using nothing but primes, is fantastic.
Chris
4.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
This is a decent starter lens for the olympus om series cameras, doesn't have auto zoom in/out so its manual zoom only but still a quality lens and lightweight.
J. V.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great pics
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2024
My last lens broke after 14 years of use, including around the world. This is the exact same lens and functions as well as the last. I could have purchased any micro four-thirds lens, but why mess with success?
Researcher
5.0 out of 5 stars A bargain for $99
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2024
I bought this lens for $99 and at this priice it is a bargain. This is useful if you want to use the olympus for people and city pictures in case you do not want to do macro. For Macro the 60mm lens is great.
So having these two lenses allows you to use the OM-5 quite in many situations and not just macro.
Would I have paid for it $299? Probably not. I might have cone for a more expensive one with a better apperature. There is another lens like that available, which is much thinner.
pdxj
1.0 out of 5 stars horrible lens for fast photo taking
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
This is the most cumbersome lens I've ever used and I cannot believe the reviews weren't filled with complaints about it. You have to "open" the lens every single time you turn your camera on and want to take a picture and then you have to adjust it to the focal length you want by moving it right to left/left to right. You cannot just quickly turn on your camera and take a quick photo. The ez lens 14-42 is the way to go.
John
5.0 out of 5 stars Versatile lens
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024
I got this lens for a second Olympus camera in my kit bag.

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