Panasonic 14mm, Olympus 17mm, Sigma 19mm, Olympus 9-18mm, Which would you recommend?

Paulmorgan wrote:

sigala1 wrote:

adamandbean wrote:

Hello,

As I have decided to stay with micro four-thirds, I have decided to buy a lens or two. I currently only have the Olympus 25mm 1.8

I am looking to buy myself a Christmas present from the above lenses either new or used. In Japan here there are plenty of used lenses for reasonable prices.

I want something short in focal length to compliment the 25mm. I do not need a long reaching zoom lens at this stage. A general walk around lens for street shots and travel is my preference.

Weight is also a factor; this why I sold the d7000. I do not want something heavy. I had considered the 12-40 pro instead of buying the 25mm but the total weight would have been 780 grams which for me is too much.

Thanks for your advice in advance,

Adam

I own three of those lenses: the 14mm, the 17mm f/1.8, and the 9-18.

Of those I do NOT recommend the 14mm because it sucks. Massive purple fringing.

The 17mm is good if you want a 17mm prime lens, and the 9-18mm is good if you want a UWA zoom. The 9-18 has better image quality than the kit lens at overlapping focal lengths.

Since you stated walking around and travel (you don't need fast apertures generally for that type of photography), and are not sure what focal length you want, I'd recommend the 9-18 for you. Although the 17mm is a very nice and underrated lens.

Of those I do NOT recommend the 14mm because it sucks. Massive purple fringing.

Really

And its not to bad on an EM5 either.

I use the Pany 14, sigma 19, Olympus 45 and sigma 60.

Any of the near standard lengh lenses would be good, ranging from 17mm to 25mmn, none are bad.

If you want something wide I would only add a 12mm if you really truly needed the extra few mm, speed and image quality is pretty much the same as the 14mm, unless you really want to argue over a 1/2 stop

I see a dark line on the right side of the shoe where Lightroom desaturated the purple fringe.