Andy Crowe

Macro shots like that are easy to get shallow depth of field, in fact you usually have the problem of too little DOF. I could go out with my Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 and use its 20cm minimum focus...

And how about image quality?

/Hopefully/ we won't have to as DPR already mention in terms of DOF: "In this respect it behaves much like a 100mm F2.4 lens would on an APS-C camera, or a 150mm F3.5 lens on full frame."

If it's too much just wait 6 months and the price will come down (nt)

35mm @ f2.8 is reasonably thin DOF, in fact it's better than the 20mm at f1.7 The DPR forums unfortunately seem to have a lot of people who do nothing but complain that the latest X from company...

I don't know about the latest Olympus cameras, but Panasonic cameras are happy to open the aperture up fully (and also don't adjust the aperture / rattlesnake so much in bright...

If you really want to isolate the subject Full Frame is considerably better than both APS and 4/3", with APS being a lot closer to 4/3" than it is to FF. For real DOF control this Pentax just isn't...

@akluiber It's literally the same image projected onto the sensor so would have identical DOF, just a different angle of view due to the crop. If you adjust the working distance to get the same...

waxwaine you can put any Pentax lens on an m4/3 camera and get the same DOF, also Panasonic and Olympus have (like Pentax) done a good job developing fast primes which also helps.

HowaboutRAW it has the same live view as the K-01 has.

You only really need weather sealing for demanding situations, I've had light rain splash on my m4/3 cameras and it never did them any harm. It's nice to have but cameras without are hardly indoors...

In terms of exposure (shutter speed and ISO) f2.8 is a lot better than f5.6, if you need razor thin DOF then m4/3 is the wrong system *period*, with APS being not much better either. You'd need to...

It's both smaller, faster and wider, guess there's no pleasing some people!

It's both smaller, faster and wider, guess there's no pleasing some people! :)

Ah more digital correction sillyness. Fact is a) digital correction is built into the lens ROM so is a feature of the lens and b) these lenses with digital correction applied automatically give a...

@Ben Raven Actually the PAL version of the GH1 has the 30 min limit, however the NTSC version doesn't and you can install a hack to remove the limit in the PAL version very easily.

""How can they apply digital correction? Do you have any idea the exact specifics of the digital correction?"

I'm not sure what you're actually talking about, but M4/3 lenses have digital...

@zxaar name a single optically corrected lens /in the same class/ that can beat a Panasonic lens. Obviously you can spend 10x more on a Canon L lens that could beat a digitally corrected Panasonic...

Constant f-number lenses are always referred to as "constant aperture" lenses, is there anywhere that doesn't call a constant f-number lens "constant aperture"?

What attention, a press release and quick preview? Wake me up when they start doing lens reviews again ;)