Compact, lightweight "Designed for Digital" standard zoom lens providing the equivalent of a 28-90mm focal length on a 35mm film camera - the focal distances most commonly used in normal photography, from wide-angle to short-tele-angle.
It offers superb cost performance, and because it was designed specifically for use with digital cameras, it also provides excellent image quality. It is ideal not only for first-time SLR digital camera users, but also for advanced users in need of a lens for day-to-day use.
Ultra-High-Refraction Glass and Dual Aspherical Lens Elements
In the optical system, Olympus has used glass with a refraction index in excess of 1.9 to provide excellent correction of spherical aberration. The combination of an ultra-high-refraction glass lens element with a low-dispersion glass lens element ensures excellent image quality with superior resolution and contrast by effectively eliminating chromatic aberration in the medium-angle range. The use of dual aspherical lens elements significantly reduces distortion, spherical aberration and coma aberration.
Multi-Coating to Reduce Ghosting and Flaring
Ghosting and flaring have been minimized through the use of a special multi-coating process.
Specifications:
| Construction | 12 Elements in 10 Groups including 2 Aspherical Lens Elements |
| Angle of view | 75? to 27? |
| F stop range | f3.5 Wide - f5.6 Telephoto
Minimum Aperture: f22 |
| Closest Focusing Distance | 14.96 inches/0.38m |
| Maximum Magnification | 0.16x |
| Filter Size | 58mm |
| Dimensions (Length x Diameter) | 2.8" D x 3.41" L (71 x 86.5mm) |
| Weight | 9.98 oz (285g) |
