For product: This is a manufactured from high quality plastic part with precise sizes and perfect fitting accuracy. The aperture can be drawn when not in use to the back over the lens. The sliding mechanism is running smoothly and easily. Convincing functionality and patentable idea.
The product itself would therefore deserve 5 stars. That it is not supplied as standard, which leads to a depreciation of 2 stars.
The excessive price list deserves another point deduction.
The article is made by the way in China, where often only starvation wages are paid in the factories. But that's when the cameras and lenses unfortunately otherwise.
The Standard Zoom comes even from Vietnam because the cost Japanese oppressors even Chinea is already too expensive.
We Europeans will then, as offered as a high-tech, product and the iPhone from Apple, one among armseeligen ratios produced cheaply mass-produced. Beautiful new world!
I myself have purchased the lens and the lens hood in the low package price. Insist the merchants that do not buy the lens without the right sun visor, ideally the original sun visor. Even Amazon would be well advised to be packed sun visor as a package price to all buyers of a lens with a small fee. Perhaps the marketing folks at Olympus savvy sometimes what chagrin get its consumers so.
Incidentally objective test are apparently often carried out without sun visor when not integral accessories.
The fully justified then leads to poor results at checkpoint scattered light / false light.
