Panasonic Lumix 25mm F1.7 | H-H025E-K Prime Lens, Black - Micro 4/3 Mount Compatible Panasonic & Olympus

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All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998–2024 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved. Camera technical details can get complicated quickly, but we all need a place to start before diving into the deep end. The lens ships with the H-H025 hood, a round hood with matte black ridges in the interior to cut down on veiling flare. We've assembled a few of our favorite articles, tutorials, explainers, and guides to help beginners get started with photography and level up to advanced concepts.

This is not the case, for the lens is a half the distance to the sensor surface and captures twice as much light. can focus pretty close, and quickly enough to catch this hovering bee – I’ve never caught the wings vibrating like that before. The Mitakon 25mm performs well, but it is a manual focus lens and that point may not be for everyone. is about as bright as you're gonna get for a lightweight prime on M4/3 (with the exception of the PL25/1. We tested it with a Panasonic G9 and found the touchscreen makes it painless to move focus smoothly and silently, with just the tap of a finger.If you shoot videos, you’ll find that the stepping motor delivers fast, smooth, and near-silent autofocus operation. First impressions on taking it out of the box were of a very light, very plasticky lens with a very plain finish. That is covered in the text as well, so hopefully the whole will give an impression of the lens and how it behaves. Lenses are actually the greatest strength of m43: a lot of small and excellent primes or zooms you can't find in larger formats. Together with the 25mm focal distance (35mm camera equivalent: 50mm), which is nearly the same viewing angle and sense of perspective as the human eye, this lens is ideal for both portraits and scenery as you would like for them to be seen – with a clear subject and outstanding colour rendering.

If you have an Olympus or Panasonic MFT camera, and especially if it’s one of the compact models, like an Olympus E-P7, for example, this would be a terrific little prime lens to carry around with you for when you need better low light capability or shallower depth of field than you can get from the kit lens. Aspherical (ASPH) lenses reduce size and weight, effectively preventing spherical and distortion aberration. The UHR lens achieves uniformed description from the center to the edges, and aspherical lenses suppress spherical aberration and distortion. Analysis of the camera’s raw files reveals that Panasonic has adopted its usual approach of leaving a little more barrel distortion than would be usual if this were a DSLR lens, and correcting it in software. It does mean that other reviews that give MTF 50 values can be compared across the web, so we can see in theory how review samples might vary.

Round the back of the lens is a proper metal lens mount, and there’s a big focus ring with a light but very smooth movement. This lens doesn’t have the best stabilisation in the World either so only use it when you’re behind the camera (or if it’s on a tripod of course). I am by no means a professional photographer but I liked the results I got with this lens and my Panasonic G85. Handling/Size/Weight​ The field of view (FOV) on this lens is similar to a 50mm on a 135 size sensor camera.

But what I really like about it, is the bokeh, which I found surprising as I never really cared about this aspect. We could fix this whole equivalence debate by either getting rid of f/numbers and just using aperture diameters or by getting rid of exposure-based ISO and just using a more absolute measure of sensitivity. However, the type of purplish, four petal cross flare as seen on your photo with candles, might actually not be the lens’ fault. Anyway, I don't think a lens with unavoidable internal reflection artifacts when the sun is in the frame qualifies for a gold ranking. comes with a nice plastic lens hood that snaps solidly in place once the decorative ring is removed from the hood bayonet mount.The performance is for a prime lens also very ordinary, beaten by even zoom lenses like the popular 12-35mm and the 12-40mm.