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Is Panasonic 12-35mm II parfocal?

Started Feb 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
Stejo
Stejo Senior Member • Posts: 1,461
Re: Real parfocal is important in video though

Holistic Photog wrote:

It's not important in stills to have true parfocal behavior, but if you do manual focus in video, AF to give the illusion of parfocality obviously won't help. Even if you do AF in video, there might still be a difference between true parfocality and mimicked.

The electronic compensation for native zooms is just the same whether you're doing auto or manual focus; doesn't really matter who's moving the elements around.

Both the 14-140ii and the 100-300ii that I use regularly display perfectly parfocal behavior in manual focus.

Curious if it compensates for Olympus zooms too actually. Any 12-40 users on panasonic bodies care to chime in?

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