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Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?

Started Jul 5, 2021 | Discussions
Acadie4Me Forum Member • Posts: 72
Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?

Forgive me if someone has covered this topic already.  I would like to hear from anyone who has used the 12-45 on the E-P5 camera. Did it function well? Obviously, the E-P5 firmware stopped being updated long before the 12-45 came along.

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Isola Verde
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Re: Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?
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Acadie4Me wrote:

Forgive me if someone has covered this topic already. I would like to hear from anyone who has used the 12-45 on the E-P5 camera. Did it function well? Obviously, the E-P5 firmware stopped being updated long before the 12-45 came along.

I've only had the lens for a few days, and hadn't paired it with the P5 till now - but the two together seem to produce decent results.

Especially good for me, they don't seem to produce any noticeable amount of purple fringing (nor other types of chromatic aberration) - which has plagued my use of P5 with several other lenses!

Hardly a work of art, but the setting of the hastily-snapped picture below is typical of those that often call for some tidying-up work....

[And yes, I'd spotted that big blob of dirt in the gap between the clouds!]

Peter

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Guy Parsons
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Re: Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?

Acadie4Me wrote:

Forgive me if someone has covered this topic already. I would like to hear from anyone who has used the 12-45 on the E-P5 camera. Did it function well? Obviously, the E-P5 firmware stopped being updated long before the 12-45 came along.

The camera firmware does not need updating when a new lens comes along as the necessary corrections are stored in the lens firmware and transferred to the camera body when mounted.

Guy Parsons
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Re: Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?
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Guy Parsons wrote:

Acadie4Me wrote:

Forgive me if someone has covered this topic already. I would like to hear from anyone who has used the 12-45 on the E-P5 camera. Did it function well? Obviously, the E-P5 firmware stopped being updated long before the 12-45 came along.

The camera firmware does not need updating when a new lens comes along as the necessary corrections are stored in the lens firmware and transferred to the camera body when mounted.

Just a following thought, even better results come from the raw file used with DxO Photolab as they lab test body plus lens combinations and auto download the appropriate profiles when the program meets a fresh body plus lens combination. That bypasses any need for the camera body to do any corrections to get a jpeg.

OP Acadie4Me Forum Member • Posts: 72
Re: Have you used the 12-45 on the E-P5?

Thank you all!

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