Panasonic HFS014042 14-42mm Zoom lens for Panasonic GH4 and greenscreening in After EEfects

I'm going to be doing a weekly show out of a 20' long x 13' wide home studio, with greenscreen wall at far end, 2 people seated at a desk 10' feet into the room, and camera at the near end - with talent and green screen lit separately.  I'll be using Adobe Creative Suite CS6 for processing video, with After Effects for Keying out background, and Premiere as non linear editor.
I'll be using the Panasonic GH4 and have been looking for a lens that's not too expensive.
Anyone familiar with or have thoughts on this one (which goes for under $200 and has gotten good reviews even though it has a plastic mount as opposed to metal)
Amazon.com : Panasonic HFS014042 14-42mm Zoom lens for Micro third cameras : Compact System Camera Lenses : Camera & Pho…
I've seen other lenses in the $400 range, which I would consider.
I think the $1000 ones are outside of my price range for now.
Thanks for any suggestions.

You're probably going to get much more help on a forum dedicated to Panasonic GH4 users.

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