Why isn't there more buzz about the Olympus 17mm f1.8?

Steve_ wrote:

I can't see the point of obsessing over optical differences if you're shooting at ISO3200. I shoot ISO800 as a practical maximum with the 20/1.7, as it's so short you can handhold 1/8s regularly with the OMD's awesome IBIS.

Maybe 5% of all shots I take are at ISO1600. Most are not deemed print or post-worthy. I never consider 3200. That's one of the things that makes the OMD so compelling to me - the short distance from sensor to flange, and the very short overall length of lenses like the 20, means that the whole works is mercifully short. Throw in the IBIS, and you have a serious low-light camera, small sensor be damned. It's a dark day in hades if I have to resort to 1/13th or ISO1600 to steady things out with the 20.

Here's an example of my low-light OMD/20mm results. Lighting in this venue could be charitably described as weak and mixed:

Wheels Through Time - Monochrome Madness