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Panasonic Lumix G 20mm/F1.7 Pancake Lens

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Main reason being was weight, it was just to heavy sometimes lugging it all about even with just the body & one lens. I don't know but to be frank I think the problems of AF with the 20mm f.17 on Oly bodies is overblown. I believe its down to expectations management.Apochromatic lenses have special lens elements (aspheric, extra-low dispersion etc) to minimize the problem, hence they usually cost more. Another crucial advantage to the Olympus E-P2 for us London based street shooters, is that it’ll likely attract less attention from the cops who have taken to hassling us. The only external control is the manual focus ring, which is a comparatively generous 10mm wide, and extremely smooth and well-damped. There's no space for a distance scale, so you can't use hyperfocal focusing methods.

One minor criticism though: many people do street photography and fun shots at night as well. You have no night shots here; meanwhile I’ve seen lots of great night shots that you’ve taken with other cameras. I really want to see what this lens can do in low light. Ergonomics Winner: My personal preference is the Panasonic due to it’s weight and size, but I would have to call a draw on this one. Autofocus My copy suffered from severe focus shifting, meaning the sharpness actually decreased when stopping down from F1.7 to F2.8. And I was not the only one experiencing this, there is at least one YouTube video explaining the issue. My LUMIX GF1 (white ivory, with the pancake lens) arrived just 10 days ago, and I am absolutely happy with it. I agree in full with your comments regarding the pancake lens. It is certainly in the forefront of glass in kits. It is maybe a bit unfair to compare with LEITZ lenses, but it fares very well indeed also in comparison with them, given that their lenses (and cameras) play in a different league /price range. Good review and makes me interested in Pana 20mm. I currently use E-PL3, do you think it will give similar result to your E-P2? I am afraid that even if I add up the Pana 20mm f1.7 but the result is not as good.When compared with against rivals with similar focal lengths, the new lens ranks third, surprisingly, behind the original model and the Olympus M. Zuiko 17mm f1.8 although it outperforms the latter lens in overall image sharpness. Shooting assist functions including Luminance Spot Meter, Zebra Pattern can be used during RAW output.

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