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Olympus Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Digital ED SWD Lens for Olympus Digital SLR Cameras | 
| Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
Buy New: $788.90
Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Electronics
Optical Zoom: 5
Maximum Focal Length: 60
Minimum Focal Length: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5.3 x 5.1
MPN: 261014
Model: 261014
UPC: 050332160514
EAN: 0050332160514
ASIN: B000X1N56W
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 12-60 millimeter f2.8-4.0 zoom lens for digital cameras (equivalent to 24-120 millimeter in 35 millimeter photography) | | • | Features Supersonic Wave Drive (SWD) technology inside to provide quiet, ultra-fast autofocus speed | | • | In combination with the Olympus E-3 DLSR, delivers the fastest autofocus speed in the world | | • | 100-percent digital design ensures high-definition performance | | • | Features special optical glass elements to correct various types of aberrations |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In combination with the E3 Digital SLR Camera, this 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens delivers fast autofocus speeds. It covers a zoom range equivalent to 24mm to 120mm on a 35mm camera lens. This lens also boasts impressive close-up shooting capability, allowing users to shoot from as close as 25cm throughout the zoom range. The extraordinary autofocus drive provides both high speed and high precision while operating with extremely low noise. Designed to meet the needs of the professional photographer, Zuiko Digital lenses were born of an uncompromising commitment to performance. The lens features high resolving power, to get the most out of the imaging element. Zuiko Digital lenses allow light to strike the image sensor at a near-perpendicular angle, minimizing degradation and light loss. This large, award-winning lens is perfectly matched to work exclusively with digital cameras so every pixel is properly exposed.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
Absolutely fabulous September 7, 2008
Steven L. Nelson (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use this lens on my E-3. I'm somewhere between and intermediate and advanced amateur. The 12-60mm lens has become my primary lens. I leave it attached for walk around photography. This lens has noticeably better image quality over the kit lenses I purchased with my E-500. This lens along with the 7-14mm and the 50-200mm provides the complete focal length range I was looking for.
I would have liked a more substantial lens hood. The plastic one is satisfactory. I'm very careful with this equipment.
I'm very brand loyal to Olympus. I've shot with Olympus cameras for 35 years. My one gripe with Olympus is the organization of their web site. Its very difficult to find accessories or the lens chart but this is nothing compared to the exceptional image quality from the E-3/12-60mm lens combination.
Best general zoom in the universe? September 7, 2008
Smiley Boy
Okay, apologies, a slight exaggeration...
It is simply the best general zoom on this planet! :) Enough to make users of other brands with bigger market share give envious looks across their shoulder to see what the fuss is all about.
Olympus' expertise in optics shines through with this lens and has been commended from all corners from professionals to users to reviewers -- and rightly so. I have had this lens for over 3 months now and it is probably more popular on my E-420 than with the 25mm Pancake! If I don't need extreme portability, then this lens takes priority for good reasons.
Colour capture is stunning, detail is sharp, chromatic aberration is almost non-existent, AF speed is nippy and the 12mm to 60mm (24mm to 120mm) range is extremely useful. My favourite is using it at wide-angle but this lens is consistently great at all ranges. Macro shooting is great as well with nice bokeh at tele' end.
For negatives -- and I am nit-picking here -- there is slight complex distortion at 12mm but nothing that concerns me too much (and I shoot mostly in wide), it is a bit weighty on my E-420 to make it front heavy which might concern some people if they have a smaller body, but I quite like it like this, and, lastly, I cannot shoot with pop-up flash, but I tend to avoid using flash as much as possible as I like having natural light in my photos.
All in all, whether you are a current Olympus user or not, it is definitely recommended for all who are interested in an `all purpose lens', who are passionate about photography and value `it's the glass' philosophy that some people swear by. My photography has certainly come leaps and bounds from using `quality glass' and, in this Zuiko, it has certainly marked a standard that others still have to reach.
Happy lens hunting.
See comments for more info.
Olympus Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Digital ED SWD Lens September 3, 2008
Pamela I. Hughes (NE USA)
A bit meaty on an e4x0/5x0, but still handles well. Maybe not as sharp as the 50mm/f2 macro but is excellent for a zoom. Good focus speed and very low chromatic aberration. There is a little distortion at the zoom extremes but nothing Oly. Studio can't automatically correct. I'd buy it again!
Very good lens. I recommend it. August 30, 2008
Manish Vyas (Redmond, WA USA)
I love this lens. This will remain on my E-510, unless I need other lenses to take specific pictures. Image quality is acceptable for intermediatte level photograher like me.
Olympus Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Digital ED SWD Lens August 8, 2008
Sy Kaplan (Vermont, USA)
Amazing lens, amazing optics, amazing range. This lens stays on my Olympus E3 70-80% of the time. Fast is not even close to the experience when using it with the Olympus E3. A must have !!!
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