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The cam is packaged with the 18-55 mounted - I guess the bayonet must be very strong. And there's only one lens hood; it fits both lenses, though. And there's only one reap cap, coming with the 16mm. I guess every p counts
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And you can't put lens hood in storage position with 16mm mounted - the lens release button gets in the way of the greater hood's petal and the flash cannot completely fold down, if mounted.
Okay, now a bit of 'impressions' of the lens quality. The 'horrible' 16mm has got some very complex distortion profile - it's geometry is 'coca-cola', we know that already; but the lateral CA also does a 'coca-cola' if the focus plane is about 5-7m away; and then when focusing above some 20-30m away, the CA is again simple and easily corrigible, as it also is at about 1m. At the focus distances of 5-7m the CA in the corners is purple/green while being red/cyan at 15-20% off the corner - not easily correctable without building a very complex lens profile dependent of the focus distance.
The good news is that if the corners/edges are cropped away till 15% off the edge, the rest of the image is very nice. But it means a 7Mp crop of 4/3 crop factor, that's about 21mm on APS.
The 18-55 seems much better, but the corners still show some very strange bokeh - it appears like having a sharp edge into corner, while having a very smooth long defocussed tail out off the corner.
The UI is OK even after four pints, quite unlike some Lx3's. Image quality about the same as a550. It doesn't overexpose, it's simply that '0' contrast is too high and needs a '-3' dialled in along with saturation '+1', the 'landscape' style seem to be the best (least bad) just as with the a550. LCD default brightness is lower than that of a550 - that's unfortunate, but expectable due to smaller battery; it can be adjusted at the cost of battery consumption, though - it's basically the same screen as with a550.
What I noticed right away is that it's very easy to get no blur at 1/13s hand-holding with both hands at the waist level using the 16mm non-stabilised 'cap' - weight/balance help quite a lot...
That's it for now...