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Low light lens for my Lumix G7 or buy new camera

Started Aug 8, 2020 | Discussions thread
Optimist_Eyes Forum Member • Posts: 86
Re: Low light lens for my Lumix G7 or buy new camera

You are lucky that you already have your 14-150 and can use it to trial out the various focal lengths. I do think that 45 is a little long for indoor use, so would rule it out. But you can try your existing lens at 20, 25, 30 and 45mm indoors to see how tight it would be for you.

One thing to consider is that the newborn will not stay a newborn for long! Soon the little bundle of joy will be scooting, then crawling, then careening at fast speeds throughout the house. For that reason the autofocus speed of your lens comes into consideration. I love my Panasonic 20 f/1.7, but the focus speed is not great. Therefore I would rule it out.

Of the remainder of the lenses you listed, I do not know their focus speeds. But you can check out reviews online. Some helpful sites are cameralabs.com, Lenstip.com, opticallimits.com, lensrentals.com (look in their blog - the micro four thirds review are far back), 43rumors.com sometimes has some reviews, photographylife.com, and sansmirror.com are all pretty decent. Rob Trek has a good youtube site also.

Good luck!

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