Olympus lens on Panasonic body?

[HansenTsang]

Hello,

I have a silly question and I can't seem to find the answer. Can an Olympus micro 4/3 lens like the Zuiko 12mm f2.0 auto focus on a Panasonic body such as the GH2 or GX1?

Thanks very much in advance.

 

[Ario Arioldi]

Hello,

I have a silly question and I can't seem to find the answer. Can an Olympus micro 4/3 lens like the Zuiko 12mm f2.0 auto focus on a Panasonic body such as the GH2 or GX1?

Thanks very much in advance.

Short answer: Yes
For further details on compatibility of any m4/3 or 4/3 lens on Panasonic bodies you can visit this page (it is for GX1 but there are similar pages for any Panasonic body).

Compatibilities of DMC-GX1 | Compatibility | Digital Camera | Digital AV | Consumer Products | Support | Panasonic Global

 

[Knorp]

Hello,

I have a silly question and I can't seem to find the answer. Can an Olympus micro 4/3 lens like the Zuiko 12mm f2.0 auto focus on a Panasonic body such as the GH2 or GX1?

Thanks very much in advance.

Well, my 12/2.0 seems to work fine on my G3.
The only drawback I can see is that you have no IS, because - brilliantly - both manufactures decided for different implementations.
Panasonic has IS implemented in the lenses and Olympus in the cameras ... :loco:

All the best.

 

[Ario Arioldi]

For the sake of completeness, using an Olympus lens on a Panasonic body you will loose also the automatic correction of chromatic aberration, which is available with Panasonic body/Panasonic lens combo's only ( and only with selected Raw Converters).

 

[HansenTsang]

Thank you very much for the help. I am not very concern with the IS feature. I plan to use it in aerial photography. I shoot mostly RAW and I am not sure if there is any automatic correction of chromatic aberration. I think it will work for me. Thanks again.

 

[Ario Arioldi]

With your planned body/lens combo (Panasonic body/Olympus lens) there is no automatic correction of chromatic aberration because the relevant metadata instructions are not available in the raw file so there is no SW which can elaborate them.
On the contrary the automatic correction of distortion (metadata based) is available for any combination of Olympus and Panasonic body and lens.
The automatic corrections are only applied if your raw converter is capable to use the relevant instructions.

 

[Annna T]

With your planned body/lens combo (Panasonic body/Olympus lens) there is no automatic correction of chromatic aberration because the relevant metadata instructions are not available in the raw file so there is no SW which can elaborate them.
On the contrary the automatic correction of distortion (metadata based) is available for any combination of Olympus and Panasonic body and lens.
The automatic corrections are only applied if your raw converter is capable to use the relevant instructions.

I'd add that if you are using a raw converter like LR it is easy to correct chromatic aberration in post-processing. It is even easier with LR4.1 or ACR7 than it used to be and it is very effective. So unless you are shooting jpegs and don't want to do any postprocessing, this is really not an issue.

 

[tribal-warrior]

I'd add that if you are using a raw converter like LR it is easy to correct chromatic aberration in post-processing. It is even easier with LR4.1 or ACR7 than it used to be and it is very effective. So unless you are shooting jpegs and don't want to do any postprocessing, this is really not an issue.

Well that leaves me with a dilemma. I have recently purchased an Olympus lens for my Panasonic G2 and I am currently shooting JPEGS. Is there anything that I can do within the JPEG processing workflow that will compensate for chromatic aberration?