The Dutch friends from Pixelmania posted the second and larger part of their 25mm MFT lens comparison. And I couldn’t agree more with their conclusion:
All three deliver crisp images, have little distortion, and so on. Yes, the Voigtländer is slightly stronger, the cheaper Olympus, Panasonic sharper in the center, and so on and so forth. The big winner is in our opinion the MFT camera user can choose from three great 25mm lenses.
Steve Huff also posted the full Olympus lens review and writes:
I prefer the Olympus as I am not losing much at all over the Panasonic but I am gaining the small size, the nice price and the overall look that matches my other Olympus primes AS WELL as almost no CA issues. I could live with EITHER lens long-term.
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So Oly won the bet. It is going to sell the lens, despite the two others.
It looks relly great on the E-M10.
BTW I find funny that nobody protests anymore for the place and size of the two buttons: Fn and Display.
Place and size of the two buttons Fn and Display is a total disaster. This might be the end of Olympus!
Those buttons look more pushable to me than my E-M5 buttons, but, ya, I’d put the play on the left and the Fn on the right. Perhaps we’ve moved beyond such petty complaining? Seems unlikely!
Yep, I’m going to return my E-M1 AND all the images I’ve taken with it. Can’t live with those buttons anymore. Bloody crooks at Olympus, what were they thinking?
If you have any prints don’t forget to re-pot the ink. Then return the contaminated paper.
We all protest for the crappy quality of your photos. They are crap and any compact could take them.
That’s somewhat cowardly, and of course, there’s your signature gratuitous ugliness.
Haven’t seen your photos yet, though you WERE challenged to show them.
Typical . . . a BIG MOUTH with nothing to back it.
The reason you can’t post twice under the same user name is that you don’t really have anything to say. If you posted twice under the same user name your obtuse ignorance would be obvious to all.
OM-D E-M10 cheaper at Amazon Spain (€577.67) than Amazon Germany (€599)
Voigtlander looks horrible in these samples. Both Oly and Pana are sharp, Voigtlander looks like they used a blur filter. WTF? Doesn’t anybody notice this? something is wrong here. Voigtlander should not be this blurry at 1.8
Yeah, noticed it right away. I think it’s overexposed a little bit(and then afterwards adjusted to normal levels), and this does not look nice on the white colors. At lower apertures it could be just out of focus, but at higher apertures it does not improve so that’s not the only problem.
It looks very sharp in the candle photo’s though.
about the CA
I noticed that the picture for Panasonic lens was brighter (over exposure), so I checked those two exif file. Both pictures used F1.8 and ISO 200, but the speed shutter were different, S1/60 and S1/80 for Panny and Oly, respectively)
Another point is he used olympus body to test these 2 lenses. I don’t know he used RAW files and 2rd party software to convert the pictures or not.
In my opinion, olympus may be better in CA but may not be this much.
Robin Wong tested both lenses and came to the conclusion that the Olympus lens is either brighter than f1.8 or the Panasonic one beeing not as bright as f1.4. That is why shutter speed is different at the same aperture. Robin Wong thinks that the Panasonic one is not as the bright as f1.4 which dimishes the advantage of 2/3 aperture stops even further.
I don’t care whether he used different shutter speed or not, if the light or brightness were the same. But look at those two pictures, the one from the panasonic lens was really “over exposure”. It means you can’t compare the CA of these 2 pics.
Robin Wong is a paid representative of Olympus, of Course he would say the Olympus lens is brighter!
And you are a paid Pansonic representative, or do you do this endless Olympus bashing and Panasonic pimping for free?
It was only better in Steve’s test, because he used a Olympus body. If he would’ve tested the P/L 25mm on a GX7, the results would be Greatly different, because Panasonic bodies take out CA.
The P/L is the clear winner, look at his other post with the picture comparisons.. The only reasons to get the Olympus is Smaller size, price and if you have a Olympus body. Other than that, the P/L 25mm wins in image quality.
For me the differences between Pana and Oly are minimal. I hardly see a difference, so that it’s indeed reasonable to stay with Panasonic in case you own Panasonic cameras already (to get in camera corrections) and vice versa.
For me, however, the minimum focus distance of the Oly is the decisive factor. I don’t care whether Wong is Oly representative or not, but the increased magnification and small DOF obtainable (as illustrated in his post) makes it interesting for close-up flower shots, too. Here I use the Voigtländer, but it’s really usable only beyond f2.0, so I will buy the Oly.
Who the fuck is Steve Huff?
Who the fuck is “Rumors”?