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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has horrific flare characteristics

Started May 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
s_grins
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Re: Olympus acknowledges E-M5 / 20mm banding and is working on fix
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Henry Richardson wrote:

s_grins wrote:

Henry Richardson wrote:

I like, or would like, this lens a lot too if it didn't cause banding with my E-M5 (also on several other m4/3 bodies). Did all those reviews mention that? If not then I suppose one must take *everyone's* review with a bit of salt since all reviews miss some things or choose not to mention them.

I trust professional reviews, and I'm very critical to all these "findings" and "apparent issues" here, on the forum.

Banding of 1.7/20 is a .. well... myth, non-existing issue. Sure, you have all your rights to think differently, but. please, use your own experience.

Olympus acknowledges E-M5 / 20mm banding and is working on fix

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/06/12/Olympus-acknowledges-OM-D-E-M5-banding-with-panasonic-20mm-f1-7-lens

'After checking every possible combination of a body and a lens, we found the phenomena only with this combination (OM-D, E-M5 coupled with the Panasonic 20mm pancake lens). We are continuing to study how we can eliminate this and we recommend for our customers using E-M5 with Panasonic 20mm pancake lens to keep a low ISO to avoid this problem for the time being.'

Believe some anonymous poster who goes by s_grins or believe the engineers at Olympus. Hmm, simple.

1. Based on my personal experience 1.7/20 has nothing to do with banding

2. What is your personal experience? What camera do you use? what lenses do you use? What samples of your photos show banding?

3. Stop BS

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