My second lens... what to choose?

Rodrigo Cura wrote:

Hello everyone,

03 years ago I bought my Panasonic G7 with the standard Lumix G Vario 14-140mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Power IOS lens. I am not a professional, but I am excited to use it for personal use such as leisure, travel and family portraits in birthdays and special occasions. After using it for a while, there are some aspects that bother me like the inability to take a selfie with my wife while traveling, the low light resolution, the inability to take pictures in small rooms that cover the whole scene (because this is not a wide angle). Other than that, we will soon be 03 with the arrival of a little princess in our family! Of course we will also be willing to take the best pictures of her (closes... maybe 50cm away?) and record videos as well. What lenses would you recommend?

Thanks! Really appreciate it!

It sounds like you need a wide angle zoom, available choices are.

Panasonic 7-14mm f4

Olympus 7-14mm f2.8

Panasonic 8-18mm f2.8-f4

Olympus 9-18 f4-5.6 and the cheapest amongst these lenses.

Any of these lenses will compliment what you already have, not replace them, they will cover the whole scene in rooms, low light will be better on the fixed aperture lenses, there are primes that will give you better low light resolution, but will not allow you to shoot a a scene in a room.

Check out a few video reviews to get a feel of what these lenses can do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdxJD0uc620

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBqVfFFN0HI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0yIhjnE5A&t=25s