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Olympus 25mm 1.8 or Panasonic 20mm 1.7?

Started Feb 16, 2016 | Discussions thread
tkbslc Forum Pro • Posts: 17,527
Re: It's "slower" but not "slow"...

inlawbiker wrote:

tehkei wrote:

Trust me if i could afford the 15mm I would get it. But I would feel a bit silly having a lens costing twice as much as my little EPL6. lol

It's not silly considering, you can still use a great lens on a beat-up E-PL1 and get great photos. Keeping the lenses and cycling through the bodies is a sound strategy, always buying a generation or two old.

Anyhow I think the 20mm appears to focus more slowly than others because you can hear the motor, whereas the other lenses are virtually silent. I think it exaggerates the slowness feel.

For me, I would say if you photographing children from a relatively close distance, it is way too slow.  To top it off, the lens does not support continuous AF.  Panasonic cameras don't even let you choose C-AF with the lens.  I think Olympus lets you choose it, but the results are disastrous.

If you are shooting adults that can hold still for 1 second at a time, or just general touristy stuff, then the AF is fine.

Since I have children, I found the 20mm resulted in a lot of misses and the 15/25mm very few. So I don't think that's AF motor noise talking.   I also enjoy the silent AF of those lenses for video AF.

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