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Pros & Cons
Pros
The lens is made of metal and feels durable. The colors/contrast are fantastic. It is both cheapest and my favorite lens. For such an inexpensive lens, the value is incredible.
The lens fits the panasonic g7. It is a c mount lens that comes with an adapter for micro four thirds.
The focus ring is extremely smooth and so is the aperture ring. The focusing ring is not to smooth to rotate but you can get use to it.
At the fastest aperture, you get a crazy swirl effect except the center. This is best used for portraits and close shots. The center of the frame is good and can be used to interesting effect.
There's some vignetting but it's manageable, especially wide open. It has some nice swirly bokeh and slight but noticeable vigneta. Gives all the bokek lovers that creamy soft bokeh and its a really small travel lens.
Cons
Optics appear to be single coated, and lens suffers from veiling glare – a washed-out, low-contrast look caused by out of frame lighting shining across the lens elements. The focal plane is not flat, but curves outward toward the edges. The lens goes ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
It is manual focus only but it looks nice and the photo and video quality is pretty good too
The build quality is very good with smooth click less f stops and focus
The build quality isnt the best but considering the price and the image quality that isnt a big deal
It is an entirely manual lens so it is interesting playing with the camera settings to figure out what iso shutter speed etc to... Read More
Price
For the price its definitely worth getting
First of all i would like to emphasize this review is based on the product cost
Competitiveness
Using it with my gx85 and its a fun lens
Btw im using a panasonic gx85 camera
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- This product had a total of 325 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 3 2023.
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I dont normally write reviews but here it is
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I am a pro photography so i think im a good judge of photo gear
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I only shoot raw and do post production work in ps
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The lens seems to be all metal
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If that is important to you dont buy this lens
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My guess is there is a gap when the lens is screwed into the adapter that throws off the infinity focus
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The results i got see attached photos illustrate the typical capabilities and shortcomings of the lens
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On the negative side it has most of the qualities you’d associate with a budget lens namely some outer distortion and blurring around the peripherals
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