DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Panasonic 7-14 F4 vs Olympus 7-14 Pro F2.8

Started Sep 24, 2015 | Questions thread
Egregius V
Egregius V Contributing Member • Posts: 538
Re: No need to stop down.

Having just played with the PRO lens a bit indoors and outside. I, too, have generally found no need to stop down (and would have returned the lens if that was not the case). It stands to reason that, when there's a lot of depth to the image, getting everything in focus at f/2.8 will take a little extra work beyond point and shoot. With this lens, I've found it particularly easy to just manually tune the focus before pressing the shutter.

So far, as with the 9-18mm lens (which I love and have used a lot), I haven't found field curvature to be a concern at all. That seems to be much more of an issue in a testing lab than in real life (where one does not treat every lens identically).

-- hide signature --
 Egregius V's gear list:Egregius V's gear list
Olympus E-M5 II Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Olympus E-M1 II Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 9-18mm F4.0-5.6 Panasonic Leica Summilux DG 25mm F1.4 +17 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow