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+1. Not sure I like the bokeh on that 100-300 all that much. Looks a bit like the bokeh from a mirror lens. If that's the case, it's a disappointment since I've been waiting for that lens with great anticipation.Wow, the 14mm is as small as the 100-300mm is big! Interesting to see them both on the GF1. The telephoto looked great in the first two, although the bokeh looks pretty busy in the third.
I'd like to see more images, especially full frame at f2.8 and then f8. I agree, the size and focal are compelling toward a "3 primes" kit... I'd love a really fast 40 too --- like a 1.4.I like the look of the 14/2.8 shots a lot more than I thought I would. The sheer convenience of its size is quite compelling.
Well said!:thumbs:of course the thing which keeps bothering me is that the price is above what I feel comfortable with. I can buy a new EOS 28mm f2.8 for US$244 (190Euro), while this little fella is around 50% more expensive (if we come close to the 349Euro).
I just wish we didn't have to pay more for the choice to use the 4/3 camera.
thanks To be honest I was expecting to be howled down by the retired gentry who have funding to afford that and more.Well said!:thumbs:
The lens is cute, and very attractive. However not having OIS and being only 1 stop faster than the 14-45 kit + needing to change lenses (compared to the kit 14-45 which I can leave on for wide / normal / tele it seems a high price to pay for nothing significant.The lens is awesomely cute and the specs look fantastic but it is only an m4/3rds lens and the price tag is toooooooo steep.
but perhaps they are ... I see very few younger photographic student types with these cameras. Given the low prices you can get the G1 body for these days it would and should appeal to them.Pana should realize that they are not targeting Leica collectors.
I hope so,and there is already some good adaption stuff around for the NEX cameras as the manufacturers have sussed that out. I would just like to add an EVF to the NEX (you know, a NEXG1)I think, by next year, we will see a steep decline in prices due to competition from others.
Sony already have a top notch sensor in the mirrorless area. M4/3rds isn't the only one around anymore.
It depends where you are coming from. My other kit is Leica, so everything panasonic seems as cheap as chips to me...I just wish we didn't have to pay more for the choice to use the 4/3 camera.
I guess ... have you ever sussed out this guys prices for Leica compatible stuff?It depends where you are coming from. My other kit is Leica, so everything panasonic seems as cheap as chips to me...
I know that there are some who do prefer primes (myself included) I don't see that I was writing in such a way as to say "every photographer". Perhaps there are more who genuinely prefer a prime lens than I think, but its hard to believe that when I read the sorts of things people write on forums (fora?) and they barely have a grasp of what a lens is doing for them."we find people now wanting prime lenses (probably because they've read it'll make their photography better, but mostly because it is fashion I suspect)."
No, I genuinely prefer primes - don't know why but I just do - especially
Do they? !I for the life of me I can't fathom why people still compare the prices to the same focal lengths in 35mm systems, suggesting that its a 14mm lens and for that in 35mm you'd have to pay $XX.