The most requested of all Micro Four Thirds lenses has seen a price drop at Vanns (now $329 Click here) and Amazon ($336 Click here). That price drop made jump the lens on first position at the Amazon mirrorless ranking sales (Click here).
The new X-lenses: The white 45-175mm X lens is in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).The black version is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here) only. The Black 14-42mm X lens is “temporarely out of Stock” at Amazon (Click here). The white 14-42mm X lens is in Stock via Japanese third party resellers on Amazon (Click here). But you have to pay an extra $150 for it.
Hot deal reminder: The Olympus E-P2 body is in Stock for $299 only at Amazon (Click here). That’s definitely one of the best deals I have ever seen.
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The 20mm as well as the Leica 45mm should be updated to make them suitable for movie recording and fast focusing.
I wonder whether the price is dropping in anticipation of such a redesign, or due to demand for the 25mm f1.4. Personally, I can’t decide whether to get the 25, or wait a bit to see how far the 20mm price drops.
Is it good time to buy this 20mm lens? Im considering to make order from amazon today or tomorrow.
Tomas.Havinh had the 25mm,for a few months now.It is one of the nicest lense’s I have ever used.
Sounds like Panasonic is doing a little bit better distributing the X lenses than they did with the 25mm. That’s good news!
At $329, that is about as low as it will get. It is still among the best MFT lenses on the market, so it’s not like it is obsolete.
25 mm Leica – buy
20 mm Pana – buy
12 mm Oly – buy
7-14 mm Pana – buy
IMHO – no other MFT currently deserve a “buy” rating, if you want high image quality the 4 above lenses are it. I also use the 50 mm f2/0 FT with adapter, and it is superb. Leica 45 mm MFT macro not worth money, image quality is inferior to 50 mm (although Leica has better magnification without macro extender).
25/0.95 CV Nokton is the best MFT lens. Period.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miklosrabi/5571426999/in/photostream/
You forgot oly 45/f1.8 —-Buy!
You’re right that is good as well! BUY
If you want to get funky,
Noktor 12mm – BUY
MF-2 Adaptor for Olympus OM lenses opens a new world of FAST telephoto (135mm F/2.8 ) and unquantifiably beatutiful portraits (50mm F/1.4 @F2) -BUY BUY BUY
The telephotos are better on the olympus bodies with IBIS.
Thanks Admin! After sitting on the fence for some time I went ahead and ordered from Vans. I’m looking forward to the 20 1.7 being my walk-around lens on my E-PM1!