This first shot was taken with the E-3 and the 12-60mm lens zoomed-out to its widest equivalent of 24mm. If you’re familiar with our Gallery shots, you’ll see this has captured a noticeably larger area than those with 28mm coverage. Impressively, the lens also remains sharp right up to the corners. A great start for the 12-60mm in this Gallery.

Landscape: 4.12MB, Program, 1/250, f6.3, ISO 100, 12-60mm at 39mm (equivalent to 78mm)

						Another shot taken under bright conditions with the E-3 and 12-60mm, this time roughly halfway through its optical range. As you’ll see throughout this Gallery, the 12-60mm performs very well across its entire focal range. At an equivalent of 78mm here, it’s delivering a very detailed image that’s well-corrected up to the corners.

Landscape: 4.66MB, Program, 1/400, f7.1, ISO 200, 12-60mm at 60mm (equivalent to 120mm)

The E-3’s sensitivity was increased to 200 ISO and its focusing set to continuous to track the approaching boat.

As the crops show, the 12-60mm is still delivering very sharp, detailed and well-corrected results when zoomed-in, so as we’ve seen so far, it’s a decent performer at any focal length.

The open aperture has resulted in a small depth of field with the background nicely blurred – perhaps not quite as much as you’d like at a 120mm equivalent, but still a pleasing result.

The crops once again show the lens performing very well even with its aperture wide open.

In Program mode with a flash sync, the E-3 selected an aperture of f10 which has unsurprisingly resulted in a reasonably large depth of field, but as you can see above, it’s possible to better blur the background with the aperture at f4 if desired.

Once again, there’s no complaints when examined at 100%.

Here’s an example taken as close as the lens would focus, and it’s better than many macro capabilities on general-purpose lenses. The crops are also very sharp and detailed.

So another string to the 12-60mm’s already capable bow.

This is a standard Gallery composition for Camera Labs, but like our first shot at the top of the page, shooting at an equivalent of 24mm has allowed us to squeeze more in than the usual 28mm lenses.

Overall, this Gallery illustrates the broad flexibility of the 12-60mm lens. It zooms wider and longer than most kit lenses, delivers respectable macro capabilities and excellent quality across its range.