Some night shots with the Panasonic 20mm on a Olympus E-P1...
While it does take nice pics under most circumstances, flare is a bit of a problem with this lens...
The UFOs in the sky are a nice touch in that last one. The next shot shows the seven blade apeture in all its glory...
The double star point diffraction caused by the odd number blade aperture is rather neat. I have hear of this but as most of my lenses have 6 blade aptures or 12, had never seen the effect before. At least in that last shot, the lovely septagon is easy to remove from the black sky.
While I am overall quite pleased with the lens, it does dissapoint in the slow focus speed. It may not be noticable on the Panasonic cameras, but auto focus is around 0.1 second slower than the 14-42 Olympus zoom which itself is pretty slow and it takes almost twice as long to focus as the Panasonic 45-200 zoom. Doesn't make any sense.
Manual focus (which is what I normally use) is also slow at around 0.4s on the E-P1 compared to 0.3s or just a bit less for the 14-42 Olympus zoom.
The weather has been really crook lately so I haven't given the lens a decent workout during the day. I am hoping for next weekend to be fine.
Cheers
Peter
While it does take nice pics under most circumstances, flare is a bit of a problem with this lens...
The UFOs in the sky are a nice touch in that last one. The next shot shows the seven blade apeture in all its glory...
The double star point diffraction caused by the odd number blade aperture is rather neat. I have hear of this but as most of my lenses have 6 blade aptures or 12, had never seen the effect before. At least in that last shot, the lovely septagon is easy to remove from the black sky.
While I am overall quite pleased with the lens, it does dissapoint in the slow focus speed. It may not be noticable on the Panasonic cameras, but auto focus is around 0.1 second slower than the 14-42 Olympus zoom which itself is pretty slow and it takes almost twice as long to focus as the Panasonic 45-200 zoom. Doesn't make any sense.
Manual focus (which is what I normally use) is also slow at around 0.4s on the E-P1 compared to 0.3s or just a bit less for the 14-42 Olympus zoom.
The weather has been really crook lately so I haven't given the lens a decent workout during the day. I am hoping for next weekend to be fine.
Cheers
Peter
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