Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-100mm F4 IS Pro

Field review: The Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm F4 IS Pro goes to Oz

The Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm F4 Pro IS is a solid option for travel and generalist photographers using the Micro Four Thirds system. It doesn't grant you the blurriest backgrounds nor the most compact dimensions available among other Olympus lenses, but it's well-built, offers excellent stabilization and gives a great zoom range to match almost any situation you find yourself in.

Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO Lens - BRAND NEW review

Amazing lens! better than I could imagine. The sharpness is truly outstanding and the range 12-100 mm covers so well most uses that I hardly need any other lens. The lens optical stabiliser works also really well even though I cannot add the in-body stabiliser as I am using it with a panasonic body.

Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO Review

The Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO delivers top-notch optical performance at all but its widest angle, making it one of the best long zoom lenses we've tested. Usually a zoom lens with a big coverage range goes hand in hand with a bunch of caveats and compromises. Olympus aims to change that notion with the M.Zuiko ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO, a premium $1,300 lens that starts at a very wide angle and zooms to snap telephoto images. It's not optically perfect—there are some drawbacks when you shoot at 12mm—but it makes a lot fewer compromises than other lenses that cover a similar range. Micro Four Thirds owners shopping for a long zoom for travel and to minimize lens changes should take a really close look at the 12-100mm PRO, an Editors' Choice. Design The 12-100mm ($1,299.00 at Amazon) measures 4.6 by 3.1 inches (HD), weighs 1.2 pounds, and supports 72mm front filters. It's a big lens—it about doubles in height when zoomed to 100mm—so it's not a great fit if you own a small camera. I used the lens with one of the larger Micro Four Thirds bodies, the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, and found that it balanced quite well. I imagine it would also ...