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sagarmatha
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I have the option of buying a little used PL 45 for a good price. Today I was able to see and use a GH2+14-140 for the first time in a shop. What an EVF!
Thom Hogan doesn't value the PL 45 very high: "The problem is focus. It's a slow-to-focus lens in my experience, and a tempremental one when used with continuous autofocus. Manual focus on the current crop of m4/3 bodies doesn't exactly excite me, and for macro work, getting precise manual focus is also high on the list of desired traits. Generally, I felt I was often fighting to get the focus point I desired with this lens, and that struggle increased the closer the focus point. So the question becomes one of price versus expected performance, and I think this current iteration fails. Perhaps with the GH2's faster autofocus I may change my opinion here, but for the current crop of m4/3 bodies I just felt this lens underdelivered on its promise."
So my question to you is: does this lens work better with a GH2 compared to e.g. G1/GH1?
Thom Hogan doesn't value the PL 45 very high: "The problem is focus. It's a slow-to-focus lens in my experience, and a tempremental one when used with continuous autofocus. Manual focus on the current crop of m4/3 bodies doesn't exactly excite me, and for macro work, getting precise manual focus is also high on the list of desired traits. Generally, I felt I was often fighting to get the focus point I desired with this lens, and that struggle increased the closer the focus point. So the question becomes one of price versus expected performance, and I think this current iteration fails. Perhaps with the GH2's faster autofocus I may change my opinion here, but for the current crop of m4/3 bodies I just felt this lens underdelivered on its promise."
So my question to you is: does this lens work better with a GH2 compared to e.g. G1/GH1?