Olympus 17/1.8 review

Jorginho wrote:

That is my point with the review. I like it a lot, it is professional from the point of presentation and indeed writing style. To me it is not just an amateur who wants to write something down (like I would be), I think I would hire him for writing and making reviews. A joy to read.

But his conclusions are lacking in my view if we take the reality into account from a buyer/user POV. That is also because of the methodology, which is hampering this review. Most of all the omission of autocorrection with the 20 mm 1.7 on the Panny body is a big one for me, as it is mentioned quite some times in his review. Another one is that AF speed, at least my copy, is actually pretty fast on the Oly at daytime with the occasional hunting, in lower light it gets worse.That is subjective too of course, but for the use of a 20 mm 1.7 (parties, stret shooting) it would be okey for everybody I am convinced.

On a Panny body, it focusses much faster consistently. In my view, there is no problem with its AF speed at all here. Besides, the 45 mm f1.8 Oly does show some of the same behaviour on a Pany body: it is not as fast as on the EPL5. This might be the case with the 17 f1.8 too, we don't know.

I understand you cannot demand this from him, to have all sorts of bodies and lenses and compare. But I think he should take the info, which he gets here right now, into consideration and add it to his review. I have had discussions with other, professional reviewers also on this forum and they changed what they agreed on. If not, of course there should be no change. Just some disagreement