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.

Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm f/2 vs 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO – Apples vs Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm f/2 vs 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO – Apples vs

That said, I do feel like maybe one stop isn't enough to warrant carrying a 12mm f2 vs the f2.8 wide end of your 12-60.I am leaning towards the PL 12mm f1.4 for several reasons. It is, of course, faster than the Olympus and I like to shoot available light. I like the look from the PanLeica lenses (I have the 15, 8-18, 12-60, and 50-200). I plan to use it with the G9 so I would get the advantages of dual-IS. It is a bit bigger and heavier than the Olympus, but I don't think this will make a huge difference. There isnt much more I can say. If you want a fast wide angle prime lens and if you like it to be small, lightweight and beautifully made, this is it! Unlike sharpness or color accuracy, bokeh is a very subjective lens characteristic and I honestly think this one is a tossup. The Olympus has the benefit of having a maximum aperture of f/2 while the Panasonic maxes out at f/2.5. Not a huge difference (see below), especially with a wide angle lens and a sensor of this size, but a difference nonetheless. If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose one, I think I would actually the give honors to the Panasonic if both were being shot at f/2.5. Take a look at the images below. I find trees on the left and the out of focus green area to be more pleasing from the Panasonic. Again, there is no right or wrong answer here, it’s all personal preference. Panasonic GF-1 with Olympus 12mm. Shot at ISO 200, f/2, 1/400. Panasonic GF-1 with Olympus 12mm. Shot at ISO 200, f/2.5, 1/400. Panasonic GF-1 with Panasonic 14mm. Shot at ISO 200, f/2.5, 1/400. Kowa Prominar 8.5mm f2.8: I saw this lens at the Photography Show in Birmingham 5 years ago but never got the chance to test a full production sample. The 17mm equivalent field of view is interesting but now that the smaller Laowa 9mm is out, I see little reason to get this one, especially considering the high price. Always shoot at fixed white balance, either “sunny” or “cloudy”. I find ISO 3200 too noisy and wouldn’t go higher than 1600 but YMMW.

Olympus 12mm f2 vs Micro Four Thirds Lens Comparison: Olympus 12mm f2 vs

Lenses – The lens has dust inside that may affect images. The rubber zoom/focus ring is coming away from the barrel of the lens. The premium status of this lens doesn't stop at the build quality and features. Sharpness in the centre of the frame at maximum aperture is outstanding and good towards the edges of the frame. Peak quality across the frame is achieved at f/4 where the clarity in the centre is still outstanding and approaching excellent towards the edges. Stopping the lens down further reduces sharpness due to diffraction, but sharpness is still very good across the frame down to f/11. You can upload: image, audio, video, document, spreadsheet, interactive, text, archive, code, other.Sharpness is really good at the centre. On the APS-C sample we tested, the corners were softer but this will be less noticeable on the Micro Four Thirds cameras because the extreme edges of the lens won’t be used. Same goes for vignetting. There is a bit of chromatic aberration and flare if you shoot into direct sunlight, but distortion is contained. Here too there’s not much to notice. A barrel-shaped distortion of half a percent is so low that in practice you will practically never see it. When you open a RAW file in Lightroom or Photoshop, you might come to the conclusion that there’s no software correction of distortion done, because the RAW file opened in Photoshop or Lightroom shows so little distortion. That’s because they’re corrected for distortion. If you avoid the automatic correction, then you see a barrel-shaped distortion of 5..5%. That’s also the explanation of why we give a bit higher score to the sharpness of RAW files: if you avoid the correction of distortion, then the corners are even sharper. Due to where I live (Ireland) this enables me to capture a Milky Way shot without getting star trails. I believe if you are in the southern hemisphere you may need to use a shorter shutter speed so that your stars are sharp (remember the stars are moving; well the earth is as it rotates which means too long a shutter speed will cause motion blur in the sky). I recently bought a 12mm F2 as well (used on Panasonic GH2), and it seems to me that the distortion is not as well corrected as it is with the 7-14mm F4 Panasonic (when also shooting at 12mm). The Lumix 14mm is the only lens on this list that gives you an equivalent field of view of 28mm, which is often a favourite amongst landscape, street or reportage photographers. It is the only 28mm equivalent you can find in the Panasonic/Olympus catalogues.

Olympus M.Zuiko Lens 12mm f2.0 Review | PCMag

The lens is indeed very sharp, especially from f/2.8, and reach is maximum between f/5.6 and f/8. Then the sharpness starts to decrease and becomes slightly soft at f/22, the minimum aperture. DMC-GH3 at 1/10 , f/ 22 , ISO 200 Now take this advice for what its worth, this is my technique and one that has enabled me to get (in my opinion) quite nice images with a sensor that is half the size of the full frame cameras that are generally associated with astrophotography. It is perfectly acceptable to capture the image all in one frame, its just that on a M43 sensor there may be a lot more noise than you would normally see. Olympus E-M1 MK II . Olympus M.12-100mmF4.0 @12mm . f/11 . 15″ . ISO 64 – Milky Way over Dunmore Head in Dingle, Co KerryAs for their respective maximum apertures of f/1.4 (Leica) and f/2 (Olympus), they look more or less identical. Even at these values, sharpness remains surprisingly good. Comparing a set of images taken a long focus distance, we noticed that the Leica was consistently sharper – albeit by a very small degree – than the Olympus at the centre at all values they share from f/2 and f/5.6. Though both lenses peak between f/2.8 and f/4, the performance at f/2 and f/5.6 isn’t much worse. f/2.8 at 12mm is a bit too slow. But the lens is excellent at 12mm, with well corrected coma, manageable vignetting and very low chromatic aberration. If you have a really dark sky you should be able to get something usable. But post-processing is as important as the lens. A 12mm focal length sounds as if it should provide an expansive field of view but the MFT chip’s 22mm diagonal gives the 12mm an equivalent focal length to that of an old-fashioned 24mm prime, which is fairly ordinary as wideangle lenses go. The blue column represents readings from the centre of the picture frame at the various apertures and the green is from the edges. Averaging them out gives the red weighted column.

The Best Micro Four Thirds Wide-Angle Lenses for landscapes

Generally I will shoot my foreground at an ISO no higher than 200 and for 1-2 minutes depending on the composition. I then wait, this is time consuming for sure and requires you to be at your location around sunset to enable you to find a composition, set up your shot, capture your foreground and then wait to capture the night sky. Windows of the buildings shine most beautifully throughout the year and that is where I come to shoot. 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. We’ve used both lenses on numerous Micro Four Thirds cameras and we’ve found their autofocus motors to be fast and virtually silent, particularly in S-AF mode. However the performance is a little less reliable on Panasonic cameras whose Depth from Defocus AF system is only compatible with select Lumix lenses. The lenses still work well in good light conditions but they can behave in more erratic manner in low light or with fast moving subjects. Actually one of the most popular sensors for Astrophotography is the similar one in the Olympus Em1mk1, the Panasonic MN34230. Its inside the ATIK Horizon, Horizon 2, ZWO 1600MM, the QHY 163 camera.

Laowa 4mm f2.8 Fisheye: recently announced, it offers a circular perspective with a 210˚ angle of view. Not yet tested, and I admit I’m not keen on circular fisheyes (but that’s just me). It’s cheap though. Mathieu Gasquet is the co-owner and editor of Mirrorless Comparison, as well as the man behind all the camera tests. WYSIWYG score:This table shows the performance of this lens if you save the files in the camera as jpg, whereby you have all available in-camera lens corrections applied. This score gives you for this lens/test camera combination: “What you see is what you get”. Look-up shot from the entrance to Sogetsuryu school of flower arrangement located in Akasaka, Tokyo.