Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R

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Boasting a brand new, optimized overall design, the latest generation of the M.Zuiko Digital standard 3X zoom lens is here. The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 II R features a 35mm equivalent focal length of 28 - 84 mm. With the world's first retractable mechanism design, the 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 II R lens is extremely compact with an overall length of just 1.7 inches. Covering wide-angle to a moderate telephoto suitable to portrait shooting, this lens is suitable for a wide range of applications, including day-to-day shooting and travel photography.

With a digital-dedicated design as well as multi-coating on all lens surfaces, this Micro Four Thirds lens boasts very high imaging performance. Bearing the MSC (Movie-Still-Compatible) logo, this lens utilizes nearly silent focusing technology, that not only removes annoying lens drive noise picked up during HD movie recording, but offers increases in Auto-Focus speeds when capturing stills. However fast your subject and however far away, this lens has the capabilities to rise to challenge and deliver stunning visual results.

Olympus MSC (Movie and Still Compatible) Micro Four Thirds lenses are the perfect choice for capturing amazing still photography and HD video with your Olympus PEN. A super-fast, smooth autofocus makes sure your subject is always the star and the silent focusing motor ensures pristine sound for your biggest productions.

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R Key Features

Box Contents:

• M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R Lens
• Lens Cap LC-37B
• Lens Rear Cap LR-2
• Instruction Manual
• Warranty Card

Outstandingly Compact 3x Standard Zoom Lens

This 35mm equivalent 28 - 84 mm zoom, 2.2 inches in diameter, 1.7 inches in length, weighing only 3.9 ounces, features versatility and unparalleled portability. The Micro Four Thirds System breakthrough design allows dramatic reduction in camera size. The elimination of the mirror box paves the way for a cascade of size reductions, including cutting the size of the flange back in half (relative to the Four Thirds System) and reducing the lens mount diameter by about 6 mm, which in turn makes it possible to reduce the size of the lens itself. And all of this has been achieved without reducing the size of the sensor itself, assuring the same superior picture quality that is provided by the Four Thirds System.

Movie and Still Compatible Lens With Exceptionally Fast And Nearly Silent High-speed Imager Auto Focusing Mechanism

Olympus MSC (Movie and Still Compatible) Micro Four Thirds lenses are the perfect choice for capturing amazing still photography and HD video with your Olympus PEN. A super-fast, smooth autofocus makes sure your subject is always the star and the silent focusing motor ensures pristine sound for your biggest productions. The 14-42mm's High-speed Imager AF mechanism enables remarkably fast and nearly silent focus when recording HD video recordings with sound. MSC silent focusing technology not only removes annoying lens drive noise picked up during HD movie recording, but offers increases in Auto-Focus speeds when capturing stills.

Three Aspherical Lens Elements

While an ordinary lens element utilizes part of the spherical surface, the aspherical lens element utilizes part of a surface that is curved but not spherical. This allows a single lens element to correct effectively the aberrations that are often hard to correct with spherical lens elements.

Circular Aperture Mechanism

The circular aperture makes it possible to achieve smooth, uniform, soft background defocusing.

Digital Specific Lens™

Zuiko Digital lenses are designed to focus light straight into an imager's pixel wells, to fill every pixel consistently. It's optical technology that delivers an image filled from center to edge with rich, accurate color, high contrast and subtle gradation. Designed exclusively for digital photography, Zuiko Digital lenses provide a level of precision that's simply unattainable from a digital body using a traditional 35mm film lens.

Zuiko lenses feature a near telecentric design that ensures that the light hits the photodiodes at right angles, thus avoiding the problem of blurring at the edges of the image, or corner shading, which often occurs when using lenses originally designed for 35mm film cameras. Combined with the high resolution of Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses, this lens design exploits the full potential of the digital camera image sensors. The result is clear photos with strong colors and sharp contrasts right to the edges of the image. The telecentricity made possible by the digital-dedicated design of the Four Thirds System has been inherited by the Micro Four Thirds System, further ensuring the high picture quality performance of the system.

Smart System

M.Zuiko Digital lenses communicate image information directly to the Olympus E-System Digital SLR for a level of exposure accuracy that's beyond the capabilities of a passive lens. Two signal pins have been added to enable information exchange between the camera body and lens, and allow various extensions to be adopted in the future.

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R Specifications

Lens Mount

Micro Four Thirds System Standard

Focal Length

14-42 mm (28-84 mm 35mm equivalent)

Lens Construction

8 Elements in 7 Groups, including 3 Aspherical lens elements

AF System

High-speed Imager AF MSC (Movie-Still-Compatible)

Angle of View

75° to 29°

Closest Focusing Distance

9.8 inches (.25 m) at 14 - 19 mm of focal length
11.8 inches (0.3 m) at 20 - 42 mm of focal length

Maximum Image Magnification

0.19x (0.38x 35mm equivalent)

Minimum Field Size

2.68 x 3.58 inches (68 x 91 mm)

Maximum Aperture

f3.5 (14mm) - f5.6 (42mm)

Minimum Aperture

f22

Number of Blades

7 (Circular Aperture Diaphragm)

Filter Size

37mm

Dimensions, Diameter x Length

2.22 x 1.97 inches (56.5 x 50 mm)

Weight

3.95 oz. (112 g)

Olympus Zuiko Digital Lenses