510 kit lenses?

[stikxs]

I've been trying to decide on a camera and would like to know what you all think of the 2 kit lenses that come with the 510?

[Greg McCary]

I think it is a great combo. The two lenses do a great job. With both lenes you won't be shopping for a lens for awhile after you get it. I have been very pleased with mine. If you just get the one lens just you will soon be shopping for a zoom later on. So I say get the combo. Let us know what you decide and we are here if you have any questions. Thanks.

[Tyson L. Sparks]

I think you should go with the 2 kit lens package. I bought my 500 with the 14-45 ordered the zoom lens the day it made it to my door. I us the 40-150 more so than the 14-45.

[Sushigaijin]

The kit lenses are a great deal, you will not find a better one for the price. However:

I am replacing my 14-45 f/3.5:5.6 with the 14-54 f/2.8:3.5. The extra speed is important to me, as is the wider maximum aperture. The extra 9mm is not even a consideration and by all accounts the 14-54 is sharper. I am actually going to sell the kit lens to close the price gap a bit, since the 14-54 is over $400.

I have also considered replacing the 40-150 with the sigma 55-200. I haven't crunched all the numbers on it, but the extra 100mm equivelent seems handy for birding and the reviews on amazon seem mostly positive. It is still an entry level zoom, and won't set you back as much as the really nice zuiko zooms, or the sigma 50-500. At $140 it is pennies more than the kit lens. Olympus really should have put a 200mm zoom in the kit, I'm sure they didn't only because they have a really nice 50-200 for the low low price of $800 and it would be a hard sell if someone already had an OK 50-200.

At the time of writing, amazon.com has the e510 with kit lenses at about $700 new, and the body only at $500 new. That leaves a $350 difference between the olympus kit and the "upgrade" kit, which right now seems like it might have been worth the extra money. While the kit lenses do give me good range, I've been so enamored with my zuiko 50mm f/2 macro lens' build and image quality that I have been spoiled to the kit lenses.

[KyRain]

I agree the two lens kit is a bargain