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Thinking of something narrower: Panasonic 42.5 F/1.7, Olympus 45mm F/1.8 or Sigma 30mm F/2.8

Started Sep 16, 2015 | Discussions thread
Jacques Cornell
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Re: Thinking of something narrower: Panasonic 42.5 F/1.7, Olympus 45mm F/1.8 or Sigma 30mm F/2.8

Hithertoo wrote:

I put my camera at 30mm with the 14-42 and I like it, at 30mm it's a little more than a stop slower than the Sigma 30mm F/2.8 which is significant. I would be using it when I wanted a slightly tighter crop and for portraits. I think having some background in portraits is nicer than an 85mm or 90mm portrait which is basically only the person.

Unless you back up.

If the Sigma was just a bit faster I'd buy it tomorrow.

Yeah, f2.8 on APS is OK, but on MFT it seems a bit slow. Still, the price is right. The only alternative I can think of is Panasonic's new 30mm f2.8 macro, but that costs $360.

Even if its negative space the 60mm frame is nice.

That's 30mm, or 60mm equivalent. Argh, my brain hurts again. 

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