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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has horrific flare characteristics

Started May 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
Anders W
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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.

One can add this quote from page 288 in the GH3 manual:

"Stripes appear in high ISO sensitivity. [When the interchangeable lens (H-H020) is used]"

And findings and issues reported on forums seem to be instrumental in getting the manufacturers to acknowledge obvious problems.

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