Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ Noir

Good Points: Lightweight and compact. It gives better performance that the newer EZ model. Improvement Points: It would be better if it came with a lens hood as standard.

Good lens for price. Looking now for a pancake prime lease but this is a good start

This is newer version of the lens than my previous one, which stopped focusing. It is the same focal length but seems slightly smaller and lighter. The way it compresses down to make it smaller when not in use seems a bit more robust than in the old version. Optical quality very good.

Lens is a good overall walk-around lens. The lens is sharp; although, it is not as fast as I would want. The construction is mostly plastic which means it is very light. Not sure how durable it will be. Works well with the OM-D systems.

I bought it one month ago. I tested it with a few shots. It worked fine. I then put on my backpack for a long flight to a foreign country. When I used the lens again in the foreign country, I just saw a black screen on my camera body and the lens did not work at all. I could not believe it because I carefully handled the lens along the travel, and It worked before. I later figured out that some components inside the lens was not tightly screwed, so after some turbulences on the flight, the lens failed to work. Unfortunately I could not returned it cause I was away from the USA. I should buy a new one instead of this kind of used lens. You don't know if it has some inherent problems or not.