A high quality standard zoom lens, providing a great focal length for a wide variety of stills and video users. Starting at 20mm ensures that you have a wide angle of view so that you can capture the entire scene, without compromising on image quality. Designed with the user in mind and weighing in at just 350g and 87.2m in length the 20-60mm is a lens that can live on your S-series without being a burden to carry around all day. The manual focus ring and zoom ring are different sizes to be easily identified and reduce the need to take your eye away from the viewfinder when shooting. The 20-60mm contains a number of special lens elements (2 Aspherical, 3 ED and 1 UHR elements) to ensure image quality across the frame. Details are rendered sharply and chromatic aberration and false colours are minimised. The lens optical design minimises focus breathing, allows smooth exposure changes and reduces image shifting when zooming making this is ideal lens for shooting video as well as photography. Thanks to the 9 Aperture blades and circular aperture means that the background areas of your image will be nicely out of focus to make your main subject stand out. The focusing motors within the lens are designed to provide you with silent operation so you shoot without disturbing your subject without compromising on the speed of focus. The lens has the ability to provide focusing control by being able to move the focusing elements at upto 240 frame per second, to ensure you get that first shot in focus. Thanks to the optical design of the 20-60 we are able to achieve not only an ultra-wide angle focal length but it is also able to offer a close up focusing distance of just 15cm, which means that whether shooting video or stills you can get your subject in focus regardless of how close they come to the lens, which gives you an amazing amount of creative flexibility. A Flourine coating on the front element will reduce the amount of dust that will stick to your front element, reducing the amount of cleaning that it would require. The lens is designed to work when you need it and is designed to protect the internal elements from sand and rain, giving you the confidence to shoot in some of the toughest conditions, even down to -10 degrees centigrade *Dust & Splash resistance does not guarantee that damage will not occur if the lens is subjected to direct contact with dust and water. The 20-60mm is fully compatible with the In-body image stabilisation, which can offer over 5 stops of compensation with the entire range of LUMIX S-series cameras, and is compatible with the cameras from the L-mount alliance partners.