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Hiking Inca Trail in Peru: 19mm Prime or 14-42 Zoom?

Started Jan 24, 2020 | Questions thread
flektogon
flektogon Veteran Member • Posts: 6,227
Re: Hiking Inca Trail in Peru: 19mm Prime or 14-42 Zoom?

Chas J wrote:

flektogon wrote:

Nice! I am just surprised with a high CA (on the left side of the first picture). Well, even the most expensive zoom lens is not so great when (almost) fully open. The primes are usually different (better).

This is not, as such, a problem with the lense. It is a known problem with some Panasonic lenses when used on Olympus bodies. Panasonic and Olympus (as best I know) use different filtration in their bodies. It does not happen when the 12-35 is used on a Panasonic body. This problem caught me out some years ago and is the reason that I bought a GH3 for my Panny 7-14.

Oh, I've never heard about such incompatibility. So, what about using Olympus lenses on Panasonic bodies? Similar problems? However, the picture which I mentioned exhibits CA only on one (left) side. So, it is not some "systematic" incompatibility. Very, very weird and not encouraging fact. Well, I do not have personally any M43 camera/lens, but helping my grandson to "build" such a system. And I thought that he could mix any Panasonic/Olympus body and lens without limitation.

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Regards,
Peter

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