12-35/2.8 Panasonic: Flare/Ghosting?

[jhinkey]

Us landscape guys point our cameras+lenses at the sun all the time . . . .:-D

 

[Steve_]

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[jhinkey]

Well my GH-2 and 12-35/2.8 showed up today and just pointing the lens at my recessed lighting shows that it will produce a ghost and it does have some flare around the light, but it's really an extreme test. The sun likely won't shine here in Seattle for quite some time so I'll have to wait to have the sun in the frame.

These two do make a nice combo together - it's so small compared to my D800 . . .

AND the menu system immediately makes sense to me, unlike the OM-D . . .


John

 

[Anders W]

Steve_ wrote:

'Is it still worth it?' for OMD owners is a valid question. These days we are spoiled by extraordinary performance with regard to flare and ghosts, with lenses like the Oly 45 being astounding good in the very face of the sun. But primes have a big advantage here, and zooms, especially those with large and enough elements to start at 12/2.8 on m43, do have less a resistance inherently. You are back to the 60's with the 12-35 on the OMD, ghost and flare-wise. If you work around it the lens is optical dynamite:

Although I agree with most of what you say, I'd like to point out that the tendency for certain types of flare to go purple on the E-M5, and therefore become visible although they would otherwise have passed more or less unoticed, is there with any lens, including the Oly 45/1.8. It's more a camera problem than a lens problem. How much flare of the problematic kind you actually get will vary from one lens to another but the problem is not limited to certain lenses. Here's a comparison of the Oly 45/1.8 on the E-M5 versus the G1:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/42529629

 

[sgoldswo]

Well, you do get purple flare with the 7-14 on the GH3, but personally I do think the ghosting thing is overdone. On my G5 the 7-14 would ghost but in white. I've seen purple ghosting on the Gh3 and the E-M5 with the 12-35 but its not in the same league as the issues with the 7-14.