Panasonic's new entry-level, compact kit lens: 18-40mm F4.5-6.3 Sample Gallery

Yesterday, Panasonic fully unveiled the S 18-40mm F4.5-6.3, a compact lens that's the new kit option for the company's creator-focused S9 camera. We were able to put it to the test and shoot a sample gallery with it, which should give anyone considering it a good idea of how it performs.

One note on processing: our standard procedure for lens galleries is to export the JPEGs using Capture One, as it gives us more control over how lens corrections are applied than Adobe Camera Raw. However, we shot this gallery with the Panasonic S9, which currently isn't supported in Capture One, so we reverted to processing these images using ACR. We've worked to use settings similar to our standard C1 recipe while also using the lens' built-in distortion correction profile. No correction for vignetting was applied.

Click here to see the S 18-40mm F4.5-6.3 gallery

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