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Panny 20mm 1.7 hunts while Oly 17mm 1.8 does not???

Started Jun 5, 2020 | Discussions thread
JakeJY Veteran Member • Posts: 5,442
Re: Panny 20mm 1.7 hunts while Oly 17mm 1.8 does not???

mount evans wrote:

When Olympus users complain about the Panny 20mm hunting for focus or producing images with horizontal bands, we're told the solution is to get a Panasonic body. Interesting to hear that the lens doesn't work well on those either.

For stills, I expect it would better on some Panasonic bodies because DFD would allow it to do less focus movements (thus addressing the slow focus mechanism). I didn't follow the banding problems, but from what I found it was true that Olympus bodies are more susceptible for to it when used with this lens.

For video, this lens is just not good for it in general if you want it to continuously autofocus due to the fact you can see the focus movements during recording.

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