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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has horrific flare characteristics

Started May 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
eques Veteran Member • Posts: 4,115
Horrific flare characteristics - yes.

The 1,7/20mm is my favorite lens, but yes, it does flare. I never saw anything like in your first picture, but a lot like in the second.

After spoiling some very promising pictures by not keeping the sinking sun out of the frame, I bought a shade for the lens. It looks great, and I hope it has at least some use. Most of the time it helps to just change the perspective a little.

And it is noisy and AF is not very fast - but it is sharp and fast (F1,7) and focuses down to 0,2m and bokeh is ok and has a nice FL (a little wider would be better, but I would lose most of it's other endearing characteristics with the current MFT lens line up.)

Peter.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH Olympus 12-100mm F4.0
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