Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F3.5–4.5 lens (old style ) for use with E serie.

• 40-150 millimeters f3.5-4.5 zoom lens for digital cameras (equivalent to 80-300 millimeters in 35 millimeters photography)
• Compatible with Olympus E serie camera’s
• Designed to perfectly match the imager so light strikes the sensor directly, ensuring rich, accurate colors
• Achieve effects like background blurring and perspective compression
• Reinforced by a new multi-coating process and new, reliable metal lens mount

The Zuiko 40-150mm lens is designed for the Olympus E-series cameras .The Four Thirds sensor in the E-series gives a 2x focal factor, so this lens is an 80-300mm zoom in 35mm speak. This lens is also available in a kit, along with the E-500 body and the ‘standard’ 14-45mm zoom. It’s a brilliant lens. Many telephoto zooms are disappointingly soft, prone to chromatic aberration and awkward to operate. This is none of these things. Shots have a contrast and clarity that’s extremely unusual at this price. Every shot we took was as crisp as a ‘standard’ zoom. The E-500’s AF system was fast and accurate, even with these long focal lengths – aided no doubt by the lens’ wider- than-usual aperture range (f3.5-4.5). The image in the viewfinder is bright and clear, even at the longest focal lengths. Build quality is excellent, even though there’s a good deal of plastic. The lens mount is metal and the filter size (58mm).