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Will there be an E-PM3?

Started Mar 22, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP sigala1 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,911
Re: Will there be an E-PM3?

ramcewan wrote:

I also had the Lumix 14mm f2.5 for several years and shot it on an E-PL2, E-PM2 and E-M1, and while there is some purple fringing in areas of high contrast I would never describe it as massive.

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Olympus hasn't really done pancakes since they released the 17mm f2.8 back in the day, you can find those for a song on ebay now, but frankly it's no where near the performance of the Lumix 14mm f2.5

Maybe I got a bad sample, but my experience is that, although it's very sharp in the center, it has a very large area of corner softness no matter what f-stop you use, and the purple fringing in outdoor photos is indeed too massive to be corrected in Adobe Camera Raw. A Tiffen Haze 2A filter (52mm with a 46-52mm step-up ring) fixes the PF problem, but at the expense of making the lens quite a bit bigger and introducing problems associated with using uncoated filters.

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