DSLR / M4/3 Lenses
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- Atkinson
The 20mm Panasonic pancake m4/3 lens is possibly the nicest I've used, for sharpness / clarity and colour.
Can anyone suggest a similar lens of similar quality for DSLR? And any other 'must have' affordable lenses for either DSLR or Micro Four Thirds?
- dibec0
Canon 50mm f/1.4 is really awesome for a dslr. very affordable as well.
- Atkinson0
yeah I've been recommended that one, never used it but looks great. Doesn't 50mm = 80mm which is a bit narrower than I'm after. Would like 40mm eqiv or close too.
- bigtrick0
sigma 20mm f1.8 is nice. i have this. kinda huge tho.
- Atkinson0
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- Hombre_Lobo_20
Still trying to find a nice one eh Atkinson? glad to see your search is progressing though.
Must have for m43 mount other than 20mm...hmm. If youre into macro the Lumix £600 macro is incredibly sharp, does 1:1 out the box, gets excellent reviews. but its pretty dam expensive!
- Hombre_Lobo_20
Remember a standard DSLR equivalent lens will be a 25mm for the same field of vision.
(this is assuming you will be using common DSLR's like t2i/550D with a 1.6 sensor crop factor - 25 x 1.6 = 40mm)
(lumix pancake 20mm - 2 x crop factor, 2 x 20mm = 40mm)
- Atkinson0
Yeah just hunting for information as ever really. I am liking the GF1 though, the 14-45 is nice too. How's the GH1? Some nice GH2 shots on flickr appearing in the group pool.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/147…
- vaxorcist0
Pentax and Nikon both had 45mm F2.8 pancake lenses, but manual focus.. should work on DSLR's. They were both Tessars if I remember right, an old but nice classic lens design with 4 elements, very, very sharp in center at F5.6-11, slightly softer at edges, but with a certain nice quality....
The nikon 45mm also came in a "GN" variant which could vary the apertyue by focus distance so that you could automatically do guide number/distance = aperture calculation .... kid of what point and shoot AF cameras do automatically
- Hombre_Lobo_20
@Atkinson
I had a GH1 for a bit after getting my GF1. It's video was great, but stills were no better than the GF1. It had better high iso shots but the images at lower iso weren't as sharp as the GF1, only notice when pixel peeping though. So I sold it.
The GH2 looks to be great. The extra tele conversion (zoom in further than the lens focal length while shooting video - without quality loss) looks amazing. I'm just hoping it's high iso and detail is as good as the 550d and pentax k-x types.
- Atkinson0
nice, out of budget unfortunately. And no AF?
- bigtrick0
i don't think it's even shipping yet - i haven't seen it for sale anywhere even though it was supposed to be on shelves by october
