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Panasonic body, Olympus 4/3 lenses best options? G85 any good?

Started Mar 3, 2018 | Discussions thread
dougjgreen1 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,068
Re: Panasonic body, Olympus 4/3 lenses best options? G85 any good?

Unfortunately, None of the Panasonic bodies work well with the 4/3 lenses that don't support CDAF focusing.    However all of them work OK with the limited set of 4/3 lenses which DO support CDAF focusing:   That list includes:

9-18mm

14-54mm version ii

14-42mm kit lens

40-150 kit lens (2nd, smaller, slower version only)

70-300mm  (requires the latest firmware for CDAF support)

Personally,  I believe that, excluding the kit lenses, the other 3 lenses are eminently usable on any Micro 4/3 body, although the lenses tend to be out of physical balance with the smaller bodies, they would be fine on a G or GH series body, and possibly also the GX8.

The G85 would work fine with any of the 4/3 lenses I listed above.  But it will not focus very well with any OTHER 4/3 lenses that require PDAF support.  Only Olympus EM1s support PDAF.

In particular, this eliminates all of the SHG lenses.  If you want to use the SHG lenses, you really need an EM1.

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