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Olympus 25mm 1.8 or Panasonic 20mm 1.7?

Started Feb 16, 2016 | Discussions thread
Karld70 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,553
Re: Olympus 25mm 1.8 or Panasonic 20mm 1.7?

tehkei wrote:

Looking for a multipurpose, street/walking around lens. I currently just have the E-PL6 kit lens, the 9mm fisheye body cap lens and the Olympus 45mm 1.8.

I mainly shoot product photography such as toys, figures etc.. 45mm works fine for isolating the figure from the background. but not great when I go out and do tourist type shooting. the 9mm fisheye is way too soft for me and mainly used to play around with filters. Kit lens is ok but I prefer the faster primes.

I bought the 45mm first instead of a normal prime mainly because I thought I was gonna get a 25mm for 99 dollars since that will most likely not happen, now I'm scrambling to look for a normal prime to take on vacation this march.

I would pick by what focal length is better for your needs. Set you zoom at 20, (keep it fixed at that focal length) and do a day of walk around testing. Then do the same at 25. See what worked more times for you.

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