Panasonic Lumix G 25 mm f/1.7 ASPH. review - Introduction

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Panasonic Lumix G 25 mm f/1.7 ASPH.

11 March 2016

Arkadiusz Olech

1. Introduction

Every new photographic system launched on the marked strives for offering decently fast lenses with an angle of view of a classical full frame 50 mm device. The Mircro 4/3 is no exception to that rule. What’s interesting, Panasonic have been far more active in this category than Olympus. Already in 2009 they released the Panasonic G 20 mm f/1.7 ASPH pancake which could be used as a bit wider ‘standard’ lens without any problems. In 2011 due to the cooperation with the Leica company their offer was enlarged by the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25 mm f/1.4 ASPH. Olympus entered that focal lengths segment only in 2014, by presenting the M.Zuiko Digital 25 mm f/1.8 model.

The line-up has been growing with an addition of manual instruments such as the Voigtlander, the Mitakon or the SLR Magic; still in order to be truly competitive, the Mirco 4/3 system needed a really cheap standard lens. After all there are no problems whatsoever when it comes to buying a 1.8/50 lens designed for full frame reflex cameras and it might cost less than 1000 PLN. Similar thing can be said about some of APS-C/DX reflex cameras: you can find plenty of 1.8/35 lenses dedicated for smaller sensors with a price tag of just several hundred PLN.

After a while the Panasonic company decided to follow that direction as well. In September 2015 they announced the Lumix G 25 mm f/1.7 ASPH., which several months later found its way to shops with a price tag of 800 PLN or so.

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