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PANASONIC LUMIX G II Lens, 20MM, F1.7 ASPH, MIRRORLESS Micro Four Thirds, H-H020AK (USA Black)

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The focus ring on the lens is brilliantly smooth and makes it really easy to manually focus on subjects. Only negative is that in low light conditions and paired with an olympus micro 4/3 camera it does tend to search on the auto focus. I tend to use ... Read More

Mm focal length is a great compromise between wide and normal focal length. If you shoot most of the time with a zoom, this lens really doubles for both of the aforementioned focal lengths. Prime performing lense at a great price.

Very good sharpness across the frame wide-open, even at the edges. Good contrast and background blurring.

This lens is very sharp for its price. It feels very light and is easy to tote around. The render is one big reason to buy this lens.

Love using it on my omd em1 and em10. Perfect complement for olympus em-10/5 series and panasonic gx series cameras. Using this on my om-d 80% of the time. Using it on a gh4.

Cons

The lens is very noisy when hunting for focus, and it hunts a lot. Poor color rendering may be due to the coating, the color rendering is very flat, lack of a better word. I'm super surprised a new lumix lens doesn't support afc on their latest camera... Read More

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Quality

My favorite of all my m43 lenses, build quality and picture quality it just fantastic

This focal lenght is one of most versatile you can think of, same fantastic optics than the first version, while they have impr... Read More

You'll never good good autofocus with any panasonic camera set-up.

7 much faster lens also extremely sharp wide open corner to center , i got 45 years photo experience l collect many lens this p... Read More

Price

No, for me it isn't because the small size makes up for the performance limitations (if this were a $1,000 pro zoom and it had ... Read More

- over price ( never going to buy ) , i have canon 40 mm f/2.

I'd say price matches performance on this one.

Competitiveness

Af is a bit noisy and a little slower compared to other lumix lenses.

8 ( fuji xt10 mount ) but panasonic has f/1.

Overview

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sharp, focal, size, good and slow.

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This product had a total of 376 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 10 2025.