The lens was brand new, straight out of the kit packaging.
Andrew Fildes
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On 10/02/2006, at 3:06 AM, Jeff Keller wrote:
>
> I agree ... Andrew you were given a very poor lens.
>
> The barrel distortion at the wide end of the 14-45 bothers me so
> I've used
> the 14-54 much more, but the quality of the 14-45 is otherwise very
> good.
> I'm surprised your image looks so muddy. Normally I would think
> that would
> be caused by flare but I don't see how abusive handeling would
> cause a lens
> to have more flare unless the glass looked like it had been cleaned
> with
> sandpaper.
>
> -jeff
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: swisspace <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> looks like you have a bad example, I have had two and they have both
> been okay, in fact I thought it was the 14-54 which was more prone to
> quality issues. It's just a good job we have our old om zuiko's ;-)
>
>
>
>> The kit lens is not only soft but looks muddy as well.
>> AndrewF
>>
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