Versatile Telephoto Zoom. The Panasonic Leica 35-100mm f/2.8 DG Vario-Elmarit Power OIS is a 70-200mm equivalent portrait-to-telephoto zoom that’s great for a range of applications, including sports photography, action photography, and, naturally, portraiture.

Bright f/2.8 Aperture. The bright f/2.8 constant maximum aperture gives you consistent illumination throughout the lens’s zoom range, and the rounded seven-blade diaphragm contributes to smooth, pleasing bokeh when you’re working with selective-focus and shallow depth-of-field techniques.

High-Quality Optics. As you’d expect from Leica, the 100-400mm features superlative optics. Its thirteen-group/eighteen-element optical design includes two extra-low dispersion elements and one ultra extra-low dispersion element that help minimize fringing and chromatic aberrations while improving sharpness, clarity, and color accuracy. A Nano Surface coating on the lens elements helps to further suppress ghosting and flare.

Focus, Focus, Focus. This lens’s autofocus system is based around a linear motor and provides fast, precise, and nearly silent performance that’s great for video and stills alike. You also get full-time manual-focus override for even greater precision. The 2.8-foot minimum focusing distance and 0.1x-equivalent maximum magnification make this lens great for getting in close.

POWER Optical Image Stabilization. The in-lens stabilizer helps to minimize camera shake when shooting hand-held. The POWER O.I.S. system works in tandem with select cameras’ Dual-I.S. function to further eliminate camera shake using sensor-shift and lens-shift stabilization methods.

Durable, Weatherproof Build. The weather-sealed design is freezeproof, splash-proof, and dust-proof, so you can keep working even in inclement shooting conditions.