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Entry into M43 - Panny GX85 12-32

Started Feb 4, 2017 | Discussions thread
jalywol
jalywol Forum Pro • Posts: 12,301
Re: Entry into M43 - Panny GX85 12-32
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Whether the Olympus is better than the Panasonic is debatable. The Olympus has gotten good reviews for the most part because of its price point relative to its performance.

No, actually it's gotten good reviews because its output is terrific.

I don't know for a fact that one lens is better, whatever that means, since I haven't used or seen results from both side by side.

Well, I have owned and used both, and from my own personal experience found that the Oly just had more pleasing rendering overall...a little of that Oly "magic" that they seem to be able to impart to lenses every so often. The Panasonic is a decent, capable, lens, for sure, but it's just sort of average, where the Oly has just a little extra something going for it. YMMV, for sure, but many of the folks on this board who have used both seem to prefer the Oly.

What I do know, and it may or may nor be important, is that the Panasonic has a metal mount and the Olympus a plastic one.

Neither of these lenses are built like tanks. However, mount failures on the Oly are vanishingly nonexistent, at least to users here.  I wouldn't factor that as a particularly important component in evaluation to purchase.

-J

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