Comments on: Panasonic/Leica Lens Conclusion (Part 9)

By: jonathanjk

jonathanjk — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:24:00 +0000

Yes, to both of those things. What the E420 won’t do is recognise the manual Aperture control ring on the lens. But I seem to remember an update of some sort, a while back, that helped that out as well.

Good Luck.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:45:29 +0000

I have a E420 and am new to the world of DSLR’s and the 4/3 format. I’d like to get this Panasonic lense for my E420 but don’t know if the autofocus feature will still work. Does it? Or do I have to use it in manual focus all the time? Also, will the E420 body electronically control aperture on the Panasonic lense and show me the aperture on the info screen, the way it does if I had my kit Olympus lense attached?

By: Daemonius

Daemonius — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:03:03 +0000

Well, I have Panasonic G1. :) I guess its “more sophisticated” body..

Image is ok up to ISO 800 .. some noticable (but removable) noise at 1600 and unusable 3200. :D GH-1 is better, but more expensive..

I´m pretty interested in this, cause its only fast lens that Panasonic/Olympus have for some reasonable price. Ofc, its possible to use others, but than its manual focus only..

By: jonathanjk

jonathanjk — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:21:52 +0000

Hi there, I don’t have this lens anymore, I went back to Canon last year.

I can say that the night shots I did take, contained very high levels of banding, in fact I hardly used my Olympus in anything above ISO 200, even in 400 it was noticeable. The banding was a big problem for me and so in the end I went back to Canon.

I still love the size and weight of the Olympus setup though, at the moment I’m using a 1Dsmk2 with the 24-70mm lens which combined is over 2 kilos in weight. Fun.

In my opinion though, as Olympus improves the 3/4rds format I can still say that lens is a winner on a more sophisticated body. I loved it while I had it.

By: Daemonius

Daemonius — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:02:58 +0000

If you have this lens still.. I would love to see some nightshots without tripod. Its doable, kinda hard, but.. try it if you can. :)

If 420 isn’t able to focus in dark.. simply use manual.

I’m impressed by quality of photos coming from E420 and those Leica 25mm lens.. never tought, that Olympus is that good.. maybe its really more about who shot, and which lenses he use.. :)

Btw. really nice review.. thank you very much. Its helpful.