The worlds first full size image samples can be seen at ePhotozine (Click here). Particularly that flower image shows an very good optical quality with nice bokeh and center sharpness.
ePhotozine (Click here) also posted a few Panasonic Lumix G Macro 30mm f/2.8 Sample Photos
New Panasonic lens preorders:
Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 POWER O.I.S. Lens at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Panasonic MACRO 30mm f/2.8 MEGA O.I.S. Lens at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
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The size alone pics the winner! 🙂
Very nice. I wish they’d come out with a 67.5 f1.8 with power OIS next- not Leica branded! And then remake the 25mm with power OIS, and do away with the silly Leica branding. I do not enjoy having to pay a big premium for those Panny/Leica lenses.
I wonder, better than the Olympus 45 f1.8? If anything, they should work well with Panasonic bodies due to the OIS. Optically, they could exceed as well.
Looks like a good alternative to the 45/1.8. The design and rendering are almost indistinguishable. The new Panasonic is stabilized and focuses closer, so it might be a better choice.
size comparison, grand father and child
optic quality like class of f1.8 olympus if you like one choose it,
OIS or IBIS depend by company brand ,don’t worry
Let’s see a head-to-head between the Oly 45mm and the 42.5mm f1.7
Please throw iN the Nocticron for good measure!? 🙂
Here is the sharpness test for your request .
1. Leica DG Nocticron
2. M.Zuiko digital 45mm F1.8
3. Pana 42.5 F1.7
This is based on what?
brand preference ? 🙂 …Leica ..Zuiko ..Panasonic
Somebody had to say that…
It is wishful thinking based on him being an Oly fanboy, but still smart enough to know the Oly 45 can’t compete with the Nocticron.
…but Yun is a Panasonic Camera Fanbois????
The rating is based on Yun’s Fantasy Organic Daydream!
If you’re going that route, add the Voigtländer 42.5mm.
OK…a quad shoot-Out it is! Somebody …take it on!
Also the PL45 and every zoom for m4/3 that covers the 42-45 range – I want to see a lineup of like 90 photos.
Very badly done by Panasonic to announce the lens but not make it available for reviews. It’s been a month already, no?
Frankly, it seems to me that the launch of this lens (and the 30mm macro) was half-hearted at best. It’s almost as if they didn’t even care if anyone will notice. Maybe that’s why they kept quiet about them on CP+? They barely even mentioned this announcement on their website. The lenses are still not listed on the Micro 4/3 consortium website. The press release for my country was so pathetic, that Panasonic was a laughing stock for next two weeks. I’m used to press releases being full of bollocks and weird statements, but the announcement from Panasonic looked like it was translated by Google Translate or someone who barely knows the language and never had a camera or a lens in his hands.
So the lack of reviews does not surprise and fits nicely into this picture. Maybe Panasonic just doesn’t care? Or maybe that’s just utterly incompetent marketing division?
I think Panasonic may have stopped distributing new products to reviewers to avoid rumors/leaks. Seems most of the leaks come 1-3 weeks prior to product launch, when reviewers get the products to review. May be a bad move as most of the lusting/advertising is done through rumors and not conventional ads.
Is the body plastic?
Hopefully yes.
Hopefully NO.
This 42.5mm f/1.7 is cheaper than the Oly 45mm f/1.8 and includes Power OIS? For anyone that doesn’t have the 45/1.8, this might be a better buy. I’m really interested to see how it performs vs the Nocticron and the Oly 45/1.8.
About 4x more expensive than Olympus.
You get Olympus 45mm f/1.8 already for 129€ and now and then sometimes for 99€.
Where do you get prices like that ? Can’t seem to find anything lower than 240€ or so…
Used I’d imagine. Even then, haven’t seen them go for that low. More like 200 Euro.
send me two, please. I’m serious.
It sounds like it will give stiff competition to the Oly. 1.7 vs 1.8, OIS vs. not, and closer focusing. Not to mention a more classic 85mm equivalent (the 90 is just a touch long for me). If the IQ is comparable this will be a more popular choice for many people. And it might be even cheaper? Done deal.
It looks like its slightly larger than the Oly, but not enough to make much difference:
http://camerasize.com/compact/#387.93,387.458,ha,t
“more classic 85mm equivalent (the 90 is just a touch long for me).”
It’s auto-suggestion. 85mm FL on 35mm format becomes 93mm FL if you crop 3:2 frame to 4:3 aspect ratio. And 4:3 ratio is IMO better for vertical portrait shots.
So, even 45mm is a bit short on micro4/3 comparing to 85mm on FF.
HUH?
What “huh”? You can’t directly compare focal lengths on different aspect ratios. Is this new to you?
BTW, for the same reason Olympus chose 75mm to match classic 135mm FL. Crop 135mm FF 3:2 frame to 4:3 ratio and it becomes 150mm lens. Same 9 degrees vertical FOV angle as 75mm on m4/3.
Interesting. So the P20 is actually closer to a 3:2 35mm equivalent than the O17?
Please…smoke another one and explain more of your extensive knowledge to us….puuuulease!
But its vise versa…you have 4/3 senzor and you crop that to 3:2 view
…anyway i am mot sure if angle of view changes as all you lost/delete are the stripes on top and botom
Looks like it has more pleasing rendering than Olympus 45mm.
This and a gm1/5 in a concert hall/music club/child’s recital is a pretty good setup for stills and video. Can’t think of a more powerful and discrete setup for that purpose.
I use my GX7 and an adapted Voigtländer 75mm f2.5 Color Heliar for that sort of thing… luckily, no kiddie koncerts.
Yes, but with in-body image stabilisation?
Yep.
…and auto focus …and size.
Manual focus isn’t a problem at aIl. In most instances I prefer it.
It’s actually a very small rangefinder lens. It takes 43mm filters. Comes with a lens hood.
Dimensions: 56mm x 65mm – Weight: 230g
Very good optical quality is not sufficient enough , it need to achieve the standard of the
great 45mm Zuiko lens in sharpness & resolution .
But pity the 42.5mm F1.7 lens is still not there yet .
Let’s wait for reviews to confirm if my prediction is right .
I highly doubt panny would even bother if this lens didn’t meet or exceed the oly 45.
“Still not there yet”
Haha, yeah bro.
I believe this lens is same good as 45mm … but want to see some human portraits…not flower bokeh tests 🙁
its clearly aimed at Pana users as it has OIS
Instead 50cm close focus like Olympus, you get 30cm close focus distance.
You get OIS and that is that. Made for Panasonic users.
Now, where is our 7mm or 8mm prime f/2.8?
Where is our 150-400mm Pro zoom? Or where is our 300-600mm f/5.6 mega zoom?
It’s nice to have competition in the market. However, this segment is redundantly competitive. Not a bad thing for the consumers, but I hope both Panasonic and Olympus put a bit more muscle behind telephoto lenses. Panasonic cancelled the 150 f2.8. Very smart since it won’t compete well against the Olympus 40-150 f2.8, but they should not give up. They should push out something like a 80-250 f2.8-4.0 for the pro users, mirroring the 4/3 SHG 90-250 f2.8 and complement the two pro zooms they already have.
We have enough primes between 17-60 mm for m4/3 system for now.
As far as I’m aware, they didn’t cancel 150mm f2.8. What they canceled is 100-300mm pro quality zoom.
Wish there was a 100-300 pro quality zoom. Tired of the mediocre image quality of Panasonic’s current 100-300.
You can get very good results from the 100-300mm, it just takes more work to do it. I’d love to see a pro 100-300mm, or a 100-400mm!
I don’t think they’re going to have the silver one available in the US market. I waited for a long time for them to release the silver 35-100mm f/4.0-5.6 for my GM1(Orange), but I got tired of waiting and ordered it on eBay (delivered from Japan)…. They should have the silver version available here if they continue to sell all the colors they currently have for GM1/GM5/GF7/GX7 in the US.
Its lovely. Here’s how big it is in the hand.