Panny 30mm macro practical on GM1?

TheClueless wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

LMNCT wrote:

Hi. I use the GM5 with 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35-100 and 42.5. I have also mounted the 45-175 and it balances just fine. The largest lens that I have mounted on the GM5 is the 100-300 and that lens also worked fine, but it did look a bit strange. The 30 is not too large on the GM5 and it delivers excellent close up shots.

I think there is a lot of preconception of what is cool to use on a small camera body. In fact the GM series bodies are just smaller bodied proper cameras and as such are perfectly capable of working with pretty well any M4/3 lens and most of the many other lenses that can be adpated to it.

Yet because it might not be thought to look cool does not mean that there is any problem in wearing socks with sandals - the socks can keep sandal wearing feet warm on colder days.

I have been using much larger lenses than the quite diminuative 30/2.8 macro for nearly two years now. This includes the 35-100mm f2.8 and the 42.5mm f1.2 Nocticron. I don't care if those that see me doing so think I am an insanely not-cool escapee from a mad-house. The combinations work extremely well and lens size coolness is not a necessity of life.

It's not cool, it's just one other way of getting around an exceptionally poorly handling (due to the compromiss for the size) camera... while entirely eliminating it's purported advantage at the same time. Still, gives you options.

Yes anti-cool I think like the little Nash Rambler of the song .... nobody sane would fit an engine that big in such a relatively small body.  "I'll show you that a "Cad-a-lack" is not a car to scorn ....", etc.