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The Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS is a standard lens for 4/3, manufactured from 2013. The focus is done by Lens AF motor (non-ultrasonic), it has image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 315 €;
37 users have given it an average vote of 9.2 out of 10.
MOUNT
This lens is available with the following mounts:
Micro 4/3: this lens is compatible with mirrorless micro-4/3.
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Pros: size and weight, image quality, versatility, price.
Cons: in the beginning you have to get used to the 'opening procedure' before you want to shoot a picture
Opinion: This lens is absolutely versatile in use. It can produce sharp immages of unexpected quality in almost every discipline, whitout having to carry a heavy load on your neck. I dumped most of the dslr-stuff I once had after a serious neckproblem. My Lumix GX9 makes a great combination with this lens. Together with its somewhat bigger brother (the 35-100mm) it can be carried in a small camerabag, with a total weight of only 612 grams!! Great choice for travellers and streetphotographers indeed. With some exercising it can even produce some bokeh allthough not being the fastest lens outthere. Take a look at the samples in one of my galleries called 'Lumix G Vario 12-32mm'. Enjoy!
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Opinion:I write about this lens because it amazed me like few others. 70 grams, 100 euros used. One thinks of putting little more than a cap in front of the car. Impeccable construction, metal bayonet, excellent rendering such as colors, resolution, definition and optical performance in general. Data that make you forget the low light and some shortcomings such as that of the manual focus ring. I took it to mount on the Pen-F with which it forms an excellent and very compact assembly, like X-100VI. But when I mounted it on the G9II that's where I was stunned. It extracts from that machine every desire for quality on a par with much more named and emblazoned lenses in the catalog. Obviously, the limits of format and brightness remain, but they can be largely overcome, the few times necessary, with appropriate processing software that certainly abounds today. I am sorry that a house so capable of producing certain delicacies has focused on FF mixing with other brands much more famous in that area.
Opinion:I find both the optics and ideally "complete" the basic set up of a 4/3 to always keep in your bag! It covers an interesting focal range useful for coping with many photographic situations, also offering a decent quality (certainly not excellent, but better than I initially expected!). Its extreme compactness is the main feature, it really takes up very little space. Personally I promote it with flying colors, I think it offers an adequate relationship between quality and price which is really low on the second-hand market. I rarely use it now, because I found in the 15mm (fixed and bright) my main reference lens: yet it is comforting to know that I have it in my bag and be able to use it when necessary, it has repeatedly offered me the opportunity to look for interesting photographic solutions (also thanks to the use of nd and cpl filters: very small too!).
Pros:Cheap, very compact (when closed), fairly wide focal range starting from 12mm, stabilized, fast AF
Cons:Plasticotto and darkness
Opinion:Lens that costs very little, has a fast AF, is quite sharp and is small and light almost like the microscopic 14mm, but it is also stabilized and obviously more versatile. On the other hand, it is decidedly dark on the telephoto side and, as I have already written in the review of the 12-60mm, I consider f/5.6 maximum aperture for a lens that does too much dark on m4/3, at least for my needs... but in this case the essential requirement was absolute portability and this pancake together with the Gx85 fully satisfied it.
Cons:The ring for the manual Focus is missed so much
Opinion:The 12-32mm was my first kit lens with the GX80, A lens that I loved and hated, very compact and light, it gave me a lot of satisfaction, I did some experiments with it even an attempt at video in the dark that came out better than expected, but personally it was too tight, I ended up mounting the 40-150 telephoto lens for a 40mm shot and then putting the 12-32 back was an immense waste of time in addition to the I risk that during the change the sensor would get dirty, but above all I couldn't stand the lack of the ring for manual focus. That said, it is an excellent lens without too many pretensions, quite sharp and well stabilized, which combined with the GX80 makes it all pocket-sized, for me compactness is very important when traveling on foot and by bike, but as I said the 12-32 was tight for me which is why I replaced it with the big brother always Panasonic 12-60 f/3.5-5.6
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