Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5XR Live MOS Micro 4/3 Compact Sytem Camera with 3-Inch Touch Screen and 14-42 Power Zoom Lens (Red)

you panasonic has today announced two new lenses for its G system of cameras that's the 14 to 42 millimeter Lumix G X lens and the 45 to 175 millimeters Lumix G X lens as well now you might ask yourself well aren't there already lenses with those focal lengths in the G Series arsenal of lenses well that's true but typically panasonic makes its lenses with Leica these ones however have been built entirely in-house and Panasonic's say that there are premium lenses and they've been given the X name so these are the Lumix G X lenses so first up we'll have a quick look at the 14 to 42 millimeter lens now at first glance this might look like a 20 mil pancake lens and that's because it's a collapsible lens so we can see if we switch it on here that it pops out at the front there's also zoom control on the lens barrel and focus control - and that zoom control is particularly handy when you're s