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EPM2 with kit lens, please help

Started Apr 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
Lumixdude Senior Member • Posts: 2,782
Re: EPM2 with kit lens, please help

I've thought about it and really the only advantage the LX7 has in my kit is for long exposures where you want to capture absolutely everything. At F/1.4 if you do long exposure calculations it will resolve a long exposure about twice as quickly as my 12mm lens at F/2 meaning I could resolve an image with less of an effect from star trails. There is no wide angle lens for Micro Four Thirds that is quite as fast.

This is one instance where the amount of light being let in is really irrelevant and where pure lens speed counts to have your image output as quickly as possible and on a 30 second exposure it lets in a ridiculous amount of light while capturing the whole frame to infinity at F/1.4

If you consider that an advantage then keep your LX7, because a large sensor camera simply cannot do this.

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