Designed for APS-C cameras, the Sigma 16mm is another lens that gives you a less common angle of view, but it comes at an attractive price and delivers excellent optical performance, reaching optimal results at f2. The corners are slightly softer but once again this will be a minor issue on Micro Four Thirds. If you want an inexpensive 24mm equivalent lens, then look no further than the 7artisans 12mm f2.8. You may think that cheap equals poor quality but this is not the case!

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It helps that there is a depth-of-field scale engraved alongside the focusing collar but the absence of an externally-visible aperture setting means the camera cannot be used to its full potential in this respect. The manual focusing mechanism is silky smooth and feels just like a classic metal-bodied rangefinder lens. Sell the kit you’re not using to MPB. Trade in for the kit you need to create. Buy used, spend less and get more. Buy. Sell. Trade. Create. Forgoing the plastics that make up the majority of the Panasonic, Olympus opted for and all metal construction for the 12mm. Because of the all metal construction, the Olympus 12mm feels wonderful in your hand but the weight may bother some users. The difference in weight is especially noticeable when switching between these lenses. The Olympus’ weight and length actually makes my GF-1 heavy and slightly off balance when in use. Replace the Olympus 12mm with the Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 and you would think the GF-1 just lost a few pounds. Olympus 12mm f/2. Shown with focus ring set to manual focus mode.One of the Japanese new year preparations is extensive cleaning which is done at work as well as home before new year’s holiday, because it is important for Japanese people to welcome a new year with clean state. Falloff of illumination towards the corners of the frame is well controlled, especially for a wide angle lens with a fast aperture. At f/2 the corners are only 1.1 stops darker than the image centre and visually uniform illumination is achieved by f/4.

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What does one say when they see this lens? I often see and here various platitudes from people who have either never owned or never shot with this lens, most of them negative, trivialised, biased and in many cases completely nonrepresentational to any sort of reality about this lens. The lens gets down trodden based on something they read once in a web review of the lens and never seems to get a second look in. The Olympus 12mm F/2 is one of the most harshly critiqued and criticized lenses but is also the most misunderstood and underrated lenses in the Micro Four Thirds lineup. If one lens receives more negative comments in the Micro Four Thirds lens lineup its this one and for the majority of cases the disparagement is entirely misdirected. I’m using my little lenses on the E-PL3. It delivers so much photographic fun and performance I don’t even mind about the IBIS being useless! It sounds as though you’re have lots of small camera fun too. MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth. Is the distortion effect corrected as it is for the 7-14mm? Is it because it is an Olympus lens on a Panasonic camera and somehow does not benefit from the correction?Both lenses come with a clip-on lens cap but the Leica cap, due to its centre-pinch design, is easier to attach and remove than the Olympus cap, whose pinch mechanism is on the sides. Moderate is not a technical term, but I wanted to separate the least wide lenses from the wide-angle category because they can be used for different purposes. Both operate with precision especially when combined with the manual assists (magnification, focus peaking) of Micro Four Thirds cameras. While not offering as wide a field of view (28mm equivalent instead of 24mm), the Panasonic 14mm ƒ/2.5 is less than half the size, weight and price of the Olympus 12mm. However, its performance is almost equivalent - for sharpness, it's a hair softer in the corners wide open, but that's about it. However there is somewhat higher chromatic aberration and slightly more corner shading. Distortion appears the same. The only other difference is that the Olympus offers a slightly wider maximum aperture - ƒ/2, instead of ƒ/2.5.