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yo what's up guys today we are going to be taking a look at a soon Micro Four Thirds lens from Panasonic the 45 to 150 f/4 2f 5.6 the lens is surprisingly small for its zoom range and build quality is decent it has a metal mount and base but the rest is made out of plastic when zooming the lens gets really long which can be annoying to some people as usual it has a zoom ring and a focus ring both are decently smooth but you're not going to do any pull focusing with this lens because it doesn't have a mechanical focus because when you turn the ring you don't move the optics you only send a signal to the camera that then moves the optics to focus and that's why there's no stop in the focusing ring the lens can only focus at a minimum distance of 0.9 meters or 3 feet it has inbuilt optic image stabilization but there's no way to physically turn it off so with that aside how does it perform I tested it on my Panasonic g7 camera and here are the results it's sharp all the way but there's not that much light to work with so shooting in low light is not a good idea the bow key looks nice and the lens gets really sharp I also love the optic image stabilization because it makes it easier to shoot handheld chromatic aberration is there but it isn't anything that I think would bother you the lens is sturdy but you can definitely feel and hear the optics moving around when shaking the lens but still it's 250 bucks which is an amazing price for such a good lens alright so if you're not familiar with the micro 4/3 system here are some things to know before getting in the sensor is 2 times smaller than a normal full-frame sensor and what that means is there will be a crop factor of 2x so when buying a lens the equivalent focal range on a full-frame is 2 times bigger than on a Micro Four Thirds camera so let's play with this the lens here is 45 to 150 so if you had a full-frame camera that's the same as a 90 to 300 lens and if you had an aps-c camera before the crop factor will be 1.5 X instead so that's a little bit better so yeah these are some things to keep in mind when buying a Micro Four Thirds camera or a microphone or lens all right now let's roll the pictures that I have taken with this lens so you can get an idea of what it can do and as I said before this is taken with the Panasonic g7 body