Some (very) minor griping aside, if you're a Four Thirds shooter there's really nothing not to like about the Olympus Zuiko 14-35mm f/2.0 Digital ED SWD, which is exactly as it should be for a high-end piece of kit. Overall, this lens, with its excellent image quality and speed, is ideal for working photojournalists, especially � a group of photographers among whom the Olympus system has already gained a reasonably strong foothold. With its wide to moderate telephoto range, it's equally well suited to shooting portraits (though it may be a little short yet for some kinds of portraiture work) or architecture. If it's not quite visually subtle enough for indoor/social shooting, the 14-35mm certainly brings the requisite performance for this kind of work from an aperture standpoint. Beyond its size and weight, then, the primary mark against the flagship Zuiko is that all of this power will likely come at a rather considerable cost, though we'll have to wait until units begin hitting store shelves in earnest to know exactly what that cost will be.
Whatever the price tag, the Zuiko 14-35mm f/2.0 more than adequately proves that it's expensive for a reason, and given Olympus's illustrious reputation where building great zoom lenses is concerned, I'd expect nothing less than the generally world class performance this top-of-the-line lens provides.
David Rasnake
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