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Panasonic 14mm 2.5, how about it.

Started Jan 14, 2015 | Discussions thread
MayaTlab0 Senior Member • Posts: 2,985
Re: Panasonic 14mm 2.5, how about it.

Jere Landis wrote:

I just bought the 14mm 2.5, had been thinking about it for a long while. How many of you out there have and enjoy that lens. Tell me about you experiences with it and how well you like, also what type of photography you use it for.

It's small, 28mm is a focal length I like to use, it takes 46mm filters like most other m43 primes below 45mm, and as far as I'm concerned that's where the positives end.

Here in France, it's quite expensive (more than €300) for what it is. On the EM1 focus isn't particularly fast and I've had consistency issues (doesn't focus in the same spot all the time, unlike other lenses I've used, but similar to the Pana 25mm on my EM1), it's very sharp... in the very very centre, but the sharpness quickly degrades when moving towards the corners and closing the aperture doesn't help much. Let's say that the softness is easily noticed on an A3 print. Chromatic aberrations are high, and of the sort that isn't that well corrected. And it's worse with flare than all the other m43 lenses I've had.

But it's small, and it's a 28.

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