{"id":8033,"date":"2010-09-25T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2010-09-25T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T16:26:13","slug":"the-panasonic-14mm-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/09\/25\/the-panasonic-14mm-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panasonic 14mm lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

GF2 to follow?<\/i><\/p>\n

The newly announced 14mm f\/2.5 fixed focal length Panasonic lens (28mm full frame equivalent) looks like another little miracle from Japan.<\/p>\n

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The Panasonic 14mm f\/2.5 lens.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

It’s even smaller than the 20mm (40mm) f\/1.7 and but one thought comes to mind. Can a GF2 compact body with a proper viewfinder along the lines of the Fuji FX100<\/a>, be far behind?<\/p>\n

Let’s hope so, as Panny can bring its manufacturing power to this niche – what I call the Street Snapper Set – and make the whole thing for well under $1,000. The lens itself will be available in November for just $400 in the US.<\/p>\n

Here are the size comparison with the 17mm on the GF1 and a 35mm on the Leica:<\/p>\n

Panasonic GF1 – 119 x 71 x 57mm – MFT sensor
\nFuji FX100 – 127 x 75 x 54mm – APS-C sensor
\nLeica M9 – 139 x 80 x 73mm – full frame sensor plus your first born<\/p>\n

So the Panny body+lens is much the same size as the Fuji, and likely much cheaper, though you trade the smaller MFT sensor in the GF1 for the APS-C sized one in the Fuji. MFT is fine for all but wall sized enlargements, as I can testify from personal experience, so what’s not to like if Panny finally makes a GF2 with a proper integrated viewfinder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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