Re: Monkey & Sheep
Delightful!
It would be interesting to read your thoughts on how the Lumix 20mm f1.7 compares with the PL 25mm f1.4... this image is a bit special!
By and large, the way I describe it is that the Lumix 20/1.7 is 95% of the Summilux 25/1.4 in performance at 40% of the price.
- The 21% difference in FoV due to focal length and concomitant change in DoF associated with that helps produce more blur in backgrounds with the 25 at the same aperture.
- Bokeh from both is very pleasing, at least most of the time. (You can always find some situation where any lens will produce nasty gobblies in blurs.)
- The 25 has less 'specular highlight blooming' when capturing point light sources at night compared to the 20.
- Both lenses benefit nicely from Panasonic's inclusion of lens correction metadata: the 20 gets a solid improvement on geometric and zero chromatic aberration correction, the 25 has little geometric to deal with but again shows zero chromatic aberration when the files are processed with Silkypix or Lightroom/Camera Raw (for the 25, only when used on the G1 body).
Beyond that, and in the premeditated absence of doing specific resolution chart exercises which become so much blah blah blah numbers and specs nonsense in conversation, I'm pleased to say that the 20 performs as like to a slightly wider version of the 25 as I'd hoped, at a much lower price and package size/weight cost. The only negative point to the 20 for me is that I like working with the Summilux' aperture ring on the G1 and L1, and wish the 20mm had an aperture ring too.