Panasonic 14 mm 2.5 lens

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Thinking of buying this lens to use on my EM5. Have any of the forum members used this lens and what do they think of it?

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If you buy one at a good price secondhand you cannot go wrong.
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Berni29
EM1, EM-10mkII, GM1 + Pana 12-32mm, 35-100mm f2.8, 20mm f1.7, Voight 17.5mm f0.95, Oly 12-40mm, 45mm, 50mm F2 macro, (prev EM10, EM5, GH1, E30, E510, E1, E300, LX3)

Andy at the ATMTX photo blog shoots this lens all the time, especially for the HDR work he does. Give his work a look. Excellent blog as well. http://blog.atmtxphoto.com/

I have this lens..... Love it
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/130322896@N05/sets/

I have one, nice compact lens that I use for indoor family gatherings. I don't think it's quite as sharp as my Oly 25, 1.8 or even my Panny 12-32. But it's really tiny and I only paid about $120 for it used. Good utility lens.

Hi

Thinking of buying this lens to use on my EM5. Have any of the forum members used this lens and what do they think of it?

I have used mine a lot on my E-M5 and it works well. Very fast to focus. The size is of course its unique selling point.

cairdie wrote:

Hi

Thinking of buying this lens to use on my EM5. Have any of the forum members used this lens and what do they think of it?

Great little lens. Emphasis on little. IQ is decent and great relative to size.

Photozone review of lens. Done using 12mp sensor, so not current in terms of how it is with the 16mp sensor on this generation of m4/3 cameras. The review gives is a good solid rating. I have one. Hard to beat for the angle of view, size and price.

AK

http://www.photozone.de/olympus--four-thirds-lens-tests/613-pana1425

happypoppeye wrote:

cairdie wrote:

Hi

Thinking of buying this lens to use on my EM5. Have any of the forum members used this lens and what do they think of it?

Great little lens. Emphasis on little. IQ is decent and great relative to size.

Yes, it is worth having it to hold it in your hand. Hard to believe it is so small!

But . . . it has issues with flair. Needs some kind of hood.

I'm not sure what it is about it, but I didn't really like it. I owned it with my Olympus E-M10 and ended up using my 25mm f1.8 much more. So I sold it, along with the E-M10.

Later, I got a GX7 with 20mm f1.7 and liked that lens a lot more. Hardly came off the camera. Maybe it's the faster speed or the focal length, or a combination of both. Or maybe even that I like how the 20mm renders images.

If you have a local camera store that has the lens, give it a try! But it's also goes for pretty cheap used nowadays that it hardly matters.

cairdie wrote:

Hi

Thinking of buying this lens to use on my EM5. Have any of the forum members used this lens and what do they think of it?

I had it, and back in June 2015 I sold it to a friend with the G5. All to finance the 9-18mm, which I eventually sold too. But of all lenses I've sold, the one I regret the most is the 14mm. I'm getting one as soon as I can. Right now I'm saving for the 7-14mm f:2.8 Pro.

Most used lens. Astro, landscape, candids, climbing, hiking, etc

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11301335@N04/

321estrellas wrote:

I'm not sure what it is about it, but I didn't really like it. I owned it with my Olympus E-M10 and ended up using my 25mm f1.8 much more. So I sold it, along with the E-M10.

Know what you mean. I would say the rendering is a bit "brassy". On the other hand, it is very sharp and many people like that. There have been complaints about the edge to edge sharpness, but I can't fault the lens there.

To the OP: Are you sure you like/have need for the FL?

The corners need a little work in PP, but otherwise this lens is a pretty good performer. A must for any moderate wide-angle prime user.

I remember reading that this lens produces plenty of CA on Olympus bodies due to the fact that Olympus uses a weaker UV-filter on their bodies? Easy to fix on post-processing, but something to think about? Or are the filters in never Olympus-models different?