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Does anyone still use Panasonic 20mm f/1.7?

Started Aug 16, 2021 | Discussions thread
Chris Noble
Chris Noble Veteran Member • Posts: 5,189
Focus on what's important...

DKG wrote:

I have both versions of it and they are real workhorses for a compact setup. In my view sharper (or, at least, crisper) than the 17mm/1.8 but yes, painfully slow to focus, especially on Olympus bodies. Probably because of the latter, it doesn’t co-operate well with some Olympus bodies (those, I think, which don’t have the ability to switch on ‘focus-priority shooting’ - mainly the PEN Lite and the E-M10 lines) as the shutter seems to fire before focus is fully achieved. The workaround is to wait for focus confirmation with a half-press of the shutter release button… not ideal for fast-action where there may not be time to wait that extra fraction of a second.

... if you can figure out what that is. Sometimes I am slow to focus, but it's not the camera's fault.

It has become second-nature to me to try and find Roland Barthes' punctum , to aim the focus point at it and lock the focus with a half-press, and then to compose and trip the shutter.

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