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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
Fredrik Glckner Veteran Member • Posts: 3,894
Re: Thinking of something narrower: Panasonic 42.5 F/1.7, Olympus 45mm F/1.8 or Sigma 30mm F/2.8
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brentbrent wrote:

I haven't owned the Sigma 30, but it seems not to be as highly regarded as the Sigma 60, and f/2.8 is not as useful indoors.

I have all the Sigma lenses, and I would rank them like this:

Sigma 30mm: Excellent!

Sigma 60mm: Somewhat soft wide open

Sigma 19mm: Not very sharp

This is the same ranking that Dpreview arrives at in their test of the three Sigma prime lenses.

The Olympus 45mm f/1.8 is cute and cheap, but not very well performing unless you stop it down to around f/2.5. Of course, if you don't pixel peep, you may be happy with the result wide open.

I haven't tried the Panasonic 42.5mm lens, but I would guess it fares well.

http://m43photo.blogspot.com

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