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Subject: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:45:25 -0500
References: <daaeb97e1003251901x39685bb5w60bb366bf9ca4089@mail.gmail.com> <20100326023230.GS29479@jbm.org>

I think he means the 20 f1.7 as a general purpose lens....

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

> 2010-03-25-22:01:41 James Laird:
> > Anyone using the Panasonic 45 2.8 Macro? Kind of pricey by Panasonic
> > standards. Is it worth it? I'm using my trusty 40 Summicron now. It's
> > faster at f/2.0 but of course it won't do 1:1 and doesn't have MEGA
> > OIS;).
>
> I'm too lazy to look up the exact details, and have no personal
> experience with these lenses, but check dpreview -- I think they
> thought the 40/1.7 was far better as a general-purpose lens, and some
> (non-micro-)4/3s macro lens (totally pulling this out of my behind,
> but is there an Olympus 50/2.0?) with an adapter was an
> optically-far-better macro lens.
>
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Replies: Reply from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question)
In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question)
Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question)