| sent on March 29, 2017
Pros: Optical characteristics, overall yield, size and weight
Cons: Nothing relevant
Opinion: I have owned this lens for a couple of years now. Reappropriating the normal focal wasn't easy, but once you can get the photos, you gain it. It is apparently less versatile than the various moderate wideangles that are currently very fashionable, in closed places especially where it is not possible to take that step back forces unnecessary choices in the framing with wider optics, but it is this, in my opinion, allows more incisive photos, making the details stand out and allowing to use it also for portraying people in context. The lens is sharp already at TA, but not exaggerated, at F1.4 there is the detail, but it also returns nuanced contours to make the scene look a bit dreamy. Closing the sharpness increases, with a maximum to F2.8/F4. The colors, however little in evidence, because the automatic WB homogenizes all the lenses a little, tend a little warm compared to the Zuiko, which in my view seem on average colder and clinical. The quality of the blur is good, especially if you manage to put some distance between the subject and the background. The lampshade is much criticized because it is great. It actually compromises the compactness when it is mounted and is not tipper, but not the lightness. Lately using a larger bag I always keep it fitted. It is still good quality, thick and hard plastic, not the fine plastic of the Zuiko. It comes with the lens. I use it on the e-m10 mk1, I do not find any particular annoyances regarding this combo. In fact, the two PanaLeica shaves (in addition to the 25 I have the 45) are for me very proportionate on the e-m10 and moreover the 25 enjoys the stabilization of the body. There is also to consider that the e-m10 is a very complete small camera, but by virtue of this completeness it is not citable even if you put the 20mm, so it might as well have the 25 if you like the focal and the yield more. The yield is top for me. But really top. In the sense that it is solving, with a high microcontrast, but a general contrast between the lowest (perhaps the lowest) among all m4/3 optics. These features make it possible to be natural and less digital, as well as easier postproduction thanks to unpumped results. Therefore I can not help but recommend this lens, which for its brightness and focal, can become even unique. For me it is the best lens of the system, which somehow despite being produced in Japan preserves the Leica imprint (in addition to the front screenprinting). I will say more, it is worth having a m4/3, even an old GF1 (with which it goes very well) to have this lens. UPDATE (in reply to my friend Canti del Chaos): I thank him for trusting my judgment and I am glad that he finds in the 25 those gifts that he has well thinned and that are masked by an insignificant exterior appearance. Now I use it with the gx7 (I no longer remember what stools settings) there is no rattlesnake effect, but only the noise of the MAF, especially when it is reached with the typical bounce of the contrasting MAF. Even with the e-m10 mk1 (which I no longer have) I had no noise problems, I had also acted in this case on the menu. |
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