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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 / GX80 manages to take most of what we like about the GX8 and pack it into a smaller, lighter body. The only real drawback is the susceptibility to flare, which is very evident in shots taken into the light. which balances perfectly with the hood attached but the lens has ( broadly known and reported) decentering issue. The lens features an 87 mm front diameter for attaching matte box, filter ring, and add-on lens accessories.While the lens has a fair degree of barrel distortion in its optical design (which is to be expected, as the M43 system prioritizes compact size), distortion is fully corrected for, digitally, in the camera's JPEGs and/or in your Raw converter.

They're all built like tanks: full metal build, nice heavy feel to them, and they're all incredibly sharp. It doesn't cost you anything extra when you use these links, but it does support the site, helping keep ePHOTOzine free to use, thank you. Lens hoods don’t just shield the lens from stray light, but also protect the front element from accidental bumps, and I would encourage their use as a matter of course.The non distortion in combination with the large opening angle makes this lens series, ideal for high quality imaging in for example medical and life science devices where a short working distance but large field of view is required. How about giving it a break for a change, and hitting shutter speed with your reductive equivalence hammer instead? All Cooke miniS4/i primes have a common fixed front diameter of 87mm, except for the 18mm which has a front diameter of 110mm. If you need help deciding which camera and lens combination are best for you, then why not check out our specially selected camera packages.

Thanks to the compact focusing system, you have highly precise AF, which is also ideal for capturing beautiful bokeh with nearly circular and natural-coloured effects - even at night. As expected, the lens does not have good chromatic aberration control and purple fringing can be seen at harsh lighting conditions with subjects in high contrast areas, especially shooting backlit. As explained, used at the same distance as the 50mm, they can provide the same image as the 50mm, aided by the higher resolution nowadays even at high ISO. Some green and magenta fringing can be visible in out-of-focus areas of the frame at larger apertures, but it’s not overly distracting.CA is well under control, being virtually eliminated in the centre and only slightly drifting at the widest apertures at the edges. When shooting bright light sources at stopped-down apertures – like in the F16 shot above – the 'spikes' of the sunstar are soft-edged and not all that well pronounced. Covering a 35mm-equivalent focal length range of 16-50mm and boasting surprisingly good macro performance, it shows great promise as a versatile, single-carry lens for landscape, street and travel photography. So if you want those sunstars, you'll need to live with some diffraction-induced softness to get them.