Panasonic 12-32 mm/F 3 – Highly recommended compact zoom lens

Superb little lens, perfect for what i intend using it for.

I got this lens as a standard fit kit lens on the lumix gm1. Being a kit lens, i wasn’t sure what expect given my memories of how bad some of my kit lenses were in past years in the dslr arena. I’m very glad to be able to say that this is, for me, a very good lens, especially considering it is a kit lens. That said, the cost of purchasing it separately is not insignificant, and so therefore it flippin well should be a good lens for the price. It is an extremely compact lens (24×55. 5mm) with a zoom range of 24-64mm (in 35mm fx sensor format terms) which makes it a good choice for landscape photography, travel photography, street photography etc. The lens has a kind of off position which is selected when the lens is not in use. In this position the lens is at its most compact and this is its ‘transport’ position, if that is a way to put it?. To use the lens to take a photo, you just twist the zoom ring, moving the zoom ring calibration marker around from the transport position until you reach the 12mm focal length position. At this point, the lens is usable to take a picture.

Great product described perfectly well.

Excellent quality lens plus very compact.

This lens looks nothing special. It is small, plastic and feels cheap. It is, however, a truly superb lens which produces stunningly sharp images from something which is absolutely tiny (and covers the ’35mm’ range of 24-64mm). I read good reviews and bought it – and it has not disappointed. I bought it for my gx7 but ended up buying it on a gm1 as that deal was only £100 more than the lens on it’s own. This lens suits the gm1 but looks tiny on my gx7 – that said, size is not important . It produces the goods and i have nothing but praise for it. It compliments the 35-100 f4 zoom which i also have (and am equally impressed with). The build does feel cheap but the lens is designed as a small lens to go with the gm1 / gm5. It’s design is, as a result, all about being small.

A great addition to my range of micro four thirds lenses. I’ve used it with a lumix g5 and a gf2 and it’s very versatile. Image quality is great, it’s small, versatile, and it has a very wide angle (12mm in mft is 24mm in standard slr terms). No complaints at all at the price i paid (under £200 brand new).

  • Excellent all-rounder
  • This is my new favourite lens and lives on the camera now
  • perfect for what I intend using it for

Very nice standard lense,light and compact,better than the olympus.

A nice little lens, it is more or less a permanent fixture on my g6 lumix camera now. For it’s price it’s great value for money and fills a gap for a reasonably priced wide angle zoom in my kit.

This is my new favourite lens and lives on the camera now. I’m only a keen amateur, but i’m certainly happy with the results and its compact size means the panasonic g3 is no bigger than a small bridge camera. Get a 37 to 52mm filter adapter, as most of the panasonic lenses seem to have 52mm filter threads, that way you can share filters, hoods, lens caps etc between them. Update:since buying this lens i have also acquired an olympus e-pm2 body, and this lens now lives on there. The combination of the two is almost pocket-size, and performs admirably in low light (the flash never got used on my last holiday, the low-light performance was so good- even in dimly-lit pubs and restaurant).

I prefer prime lenses to zooms, but this makes for an excellent multi-purpose travel lens. It folds down to the size of a pancake prime, so is very unobtrusive on-camera. When you’re ready to shoot, you do need to extend the lens, which makes it quite a bit longer, but still smaller than a typical standard zoom. 6 aperture is about average in terms of aperture speed for a standard zoom, although the tele-end is a bit shorter than a typical 14-40 range, so at full zoom (32mm / 64mm full-frame equivalent), it’s not going to be quite as close to the action, nor quite as fast a shutter speed nor shallow a depth of field. However, the lens is also wider at the wide angle end, which i find preferable – especially for travel shots. A good range, and although slightly slow, in-body image stabilisation takes care of most issues, except for depth of field. Some might want more metal in the barrel, but i don’t – plastic is perfectly durable and better still for a travel lens as it is so lightweight. This is a great addition to a micro four thirds kit. I recently took the lens with me on holiday to cyprus and i have been very impressed with the results. The lens produces *very* sharp images and offers a range of angles that means you keep your kit to a minimum and travel light. The colour and contrast profile is also nice – lively without being cartoonish. I still love using my panasonic 20mm and 14mm primes, and would likely prefer those in lower light and night shots, but for most purposes, this is a really great micro four thirds lens.

Small and light,just what i wanted. Takes really sharp extremely wide angle shots and has the bonus of a zoom function.

Features of Panasonic 12-32 mm/F 3.5-5.6 LUMIX G VARIO MEGA OIS ASPH(H-FS12032) 12 mm Lens

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  • Weight:70 g
  • Colour:Black
  • Diameter:5.55 cm
  • Length:2.4 cm

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Weight:70 g

Colour:Black

Diameter:5.55 cm

Length:2.4 cm

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