Which Micro 4/3 lens should i buy ?

hishameid wrote:

Thank you Guy for the time you took.

The chart was done just after the holiday and was sitting in my Onedrive for use like that.

Love the small software (im a numbers guy-Engineering background-its amazing to see the graphs) that alone was as good as buying the lens.

Looking at the my OMD EM-5 pictures my highest range is between 14 mm and 50 mm.

Which already says a lot and makes me wanna get the 12-40 mm.

Get it and stop mucking about.

I have been eyeing the samyang fish eye for a couple of years, but have been so hesitant since i never used a fish eye other than the occasional Gopro scuba videos and snapshots. Which i often find so distorted and end up cropping or fixing the perspective on them.

My question is, is it worth it getting the samyang, or just wait and save and get the 7-14 mm pro lens to complete my kit ?

What started me was getting the 9mm body cap fisheye, a huge discount  to get it about half price  made me do it.

Had a lot of fun experimenting with it and so much fun that I immediately bought the 7.5mm Samyang and have used it more than I thought that I would.

It's use of course is to get a view of usually interiors where no other lens can see that wide. Or to look for curved and circular architectural features where the fisheye gets the wide view and everything is curved anyway, so it all looks normal.

Occasionally I use it for wide landscape type shots where the absence of vertical poles, trees etc at the edges leave no clue as to the fact that is it fisheye. The trick is to keep the horizon dead centre so it is straight, then crop top or bottom as required to get rid of the boring bits. Occasionally a de-fish with a tool like AnglerFish is done, but not often.

It is a lens that makes you think more and work a bit to get the result. Not used much but seems more useful than my 9-18mm lens. I could happily travel with 12-40mm for most shots, then get some with 7.5mm fisheye, then some less with 45-150mm, but that's just me, more wide than tele. The 7-14mm just does not enter my thinking.

Prime lust went away when the 12-40mm arrived, and I do shoot at up to 6400 ISO to make up for "lack of aperture". Even the rare 25,600 ISO shot just to capture something impossible.

My mode dial reveals the MySets that I have assigned to it, just mostly auto ISO range shifting.

Regards....... Guy