Most high quality wide angle lenses will minimize barrel and mustache distortion, but you can’t escape physics in regard to physical proximity, and by this I mean subject distance, when captured around the edges or in corners of your frame. But today, I want to emplore and encourage you to take a serious look at the wonderful Olympus 7-14mm f/2.

This review has absolutely made my mind up that an ultra wide lens would not be a good fit for me and I shall go down the wide angle lens route, probably a 28mm prime. From Olympus (now OM-Systems) the latest OM System OM-5 and OM System OM-1 cameras are remarkable options to consider. MPB Europe Ltd acts as a broker and offers credit solely from PayPal Credit, a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH.A minor distortion correction in Adobe Lightroom corrected this even further and left no after-effects or extra-wide or oddly-tall family members on the outside edges of the frame. As part of the Olympus Pro series, the 7-14mm is weather sealed and made with a metal body, and its optical construction gets quite complex: 10 of the 14 elements are aspherical or low dispersion glass. Measuring 79mm in length, 106mm in diameter and weighing 534g, it’s significantly larger and heavier than the Lumix G 7-14mm, which measures 70x83mm and weighs 300g; yep that’s almost half the weight. His leading leg is probably a mere couple of feet from the camera, but even the small difference between it and his trailing leg shows how much a difference a foot or two can make (I can confirm that both of his legs are relatively equal in length). I’ve pictured them side-by-side below and it’s clear how much heftier the Olympus lens is, thanks to its brighter focal ratio and weather-sealing.

I admit that most of the time I was more inspired to shoot at 7mm more than any other focal length and I think this very wide value is one of the main reasons to consider it.Of course, the MFT standard is also used by Panasonic Lumix G cameras so lenses from the two brands can be used interchangeably.