Fun with the Lumix 20mm f/1.7 (Image Thread)

[rparmar]

dancing on the leaf edge



traversing the sky

 

[mie]

+100

. . . and welcome Robert and Mie

Keith

Hi everyone. Thank you for the comments and warm welcome. I really love this lens. It has been one of my favourite on the e-p1. Some more pictures below with the lens. Captured this during my visit to London last March.

Hyde Park

Big Ben

British Museum

 

[biglouis]

If this lens had Leica on it, they'd charge you 10 times more for it. But at one tenth the price, I honestly can't see the difference between this lens and a summicron.

Shot with my GH-2, see exif for details, pretty much straight out of the camera from RAW with some white balance adjustment. No sharpening.

Detail from Eastney Beam Engine House, Portsmouth (England).

 

[DHart]

Wonderful images, Louis... they really showcase the striking clarity this awesome lens can produce!

 

[rparmar]

Nice. I love those machines and had great fun in Bristol at the industrial museum.

 

[m3photo]

Re: Lumix 20mm f/1.7 Quality

If this lens had Leica on it, they'd charge you 10 times more for it. But at one tenth the price, I honestly can't see the difference between this lens and a summicron.

Quite so.
And as I wrote above: 'Now, how many lenses have we come across that can deliver the goods wide open? Not many.', the Summicron is one of those few of course.

 

[biglouis]

Re: Lumix 20mm f/1.7 Quality

Quite so.
And as I wrote above: 'Now, how many lenses have we come across that can deliver the goods wide open? Not many.', the Summicron is one of those few of course.

Quite so. The first of your two communion pictures is pure Leica. I love that look. Clearly Panasonic got something out of the deal after all and are only too pleased to share it with us for a fraction of an 'L' badged price.

LouisB

 

[m3photo]

Re: Best Lens

Clearly Panasonic got something out of the deal after all and are only too pleased to share it with us for a fraction of an 'L' badged price.

Mike Johnston, he of The Online Photographer even goes so far as to say:
'I must say it looks like a particularly fine lens. One wonders if the Wizards of Solms* had a hand in its design.'


Quoted from: http://theonlinephotographer.typepa...er/2009/09/more-on-the-20mm-f17-lumix-g-.html

 

[m3photo]

Flower Shopping

Wot, no pix? 'Ere's one then:

G1+20mm f/1.7 - 1/1000@f/4 ISO100