20mm on OMD concerns

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Henry Richardson
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Olympus acknowledges E-M5 / 20mm banding and is working on fix
In reply to BonoBox, 4 months ago

BonoBox wrote:

i'm seriously planning to buy the Panasonic 20mm for all round lens on OMD to increase the portability that unfortunately is highly reduce by the kit lens.

i have the following concerns:

- i remember that several people experienced visible and quite annoying banding issue. is still an issue or the firmware updates solved this problem?

Yes, Olympus acknowledged this problem and said they are working on a fix, but that was 7 months ago:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/6/12/Olympus-acknowledges-OM-D-E-M5-banding-with-panasonic-20mm-f1-7-lens

I haven't heard anything from them since then.  I think they are hoping we forgot about it.

I have had several low light shots with this lens/body combo that have pretty bad banding.

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