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Olympus 25mm 1.8 or Panasonic 20mm 1.7?

Started Feb 16, 2016 | Discussions thread
Chippy99 Senior Member • Posts: 2,182
Re: Olympus 25mm 1.8 or Panasonic 20mm 1.7?
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As others have said, go with the focal length you prefer.

I have the 25mm Oly and it is superb - I really cannot fault it. Optically it is outstanding. Mechanically it's plastic but still well put together with metal mount and nice smooth focus action. It focuses instantly and accurately. There is nothing to not like about it.

But... it is imho a tiny bit long for a general purpose walkabout lens. It's decent for portraits though.

The 20mm would be a better general purpose lens imho, and cropping the images to 25mm equivalent FOV is not much of a crop.

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