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Two questions on Pana 42,5 f1.7 and Pana 30mm f2.8

Started Oct 27, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP opogan New Member • Posts: 15
Re: Two questions on Pana 42,5 f1.7 and Pana 30mm f2.8

Impulses wrote:

OIS works in video. It can be turned off on Olympus bodies in favor of IBIS but not on Panasonic bodies (the GX7's IBIS is probably no better anyway and the GX8's works in conjunction with OIS). No clue about the 30mm's AF, good question tho.

The 42.5 has a pretty nice minimum focus distance btw, not macro by any means but good enough for decent close-ups. I replaced my Oly 45 with it in part due to this, haven't tried it with my extension tubes yet but it should be interesting.

I use Pana bodies and I thing this is not very good if I cannot turn IBIS off.

I heard about close distance for 42,5 and also seen some weird "doubled" bokeh on open aperture - did you noticed such on your copy?

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