Panasonic G Macro 30 mm f/2.8 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S.
11. Summary
- solid and compact casing,
- excellent image quality in the frame centre,
- good image quality on the edge of the frame,
- lack of problems with the longitudinal chromatic aberration,
- low lateral chromatic aberration,
- lack of noticeable problems with spherical aberration,
- slight distortion,
- very low coma,
- moderate astigmatism,
- silent and accurate autofocus,
- good price/quality and price/performance ratio.
Cons:
- a tad too high vignetting,
- strange performance of image stabilization.
The Panasonic G Macro 30 mm f/2.8 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S. is the cheapest macro lens dedicated to the Micro Four Thirds system. What’s important, you don’t notice that cheapness anywhere. It is a mechanically solid instrument with a lot of metal parts, produced in Japan. Its optical quality is so good that it didn’t have any serious slip-ups in our test. Our reservations concern only the strange performance of image stabilization but we didn’t have an opportunity to check whether it is an overall effect or just a flaw of the particular specimen we happened to test here.
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Still we don’t doubt that those 1200 PLN you have to spend for the Panasonic G Macro 30 mm f/2.8 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S. are a good investment and the lens will be a joy to use.
