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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has horrific flare characteristics

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

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Henry Richardson
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Olympus gives the answer, keep your iso lower...the example above:

1) Is cropped 800x600

2) Is Not from E-M5 (I thought banding ONLY happened with E-M5)??

3) Is iso 6400...suggest 3200

4) Not a good shot or sharp or anything

Not all my shots are keepers, but I have a lot that I like from the E-M5 and Pany 20/1.7

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