Is this lens a good compromise?

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21 Jan 2013 - 10:09 AM

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mikehit (e2 Member)

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21 Jan 2013 - 10:51 AM

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If the choice is driven by landscapes, I don't think 18mm/20mm is wide enough for capturing vistas unless you stitch photos together. The 14mm is a decent lens for the money (I have one on my GX1).

mikehit (e2 Member)

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21 Jan 2013 - 4:28 PM

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I think 14mm is fine for landscapes - it is a good compromise on both cost as well as field of view: it gives a field of view about half as wide again as the unaided human eye so you still get the feeling of expanse, but it is not so wide that you have to be really careful about composition. I have images of the Himalayas taken with 28mm on film SLR (same field of view) and not once did I wish I had wider.

Some will say that 14mm on MFT is 'not that wide' - true, it is not as wide as you can get but given that wider lenses are £500 (for the Olympus 9-18mm) and up, if you want wider, it is no problem to take a series of images and stitch them (an you can get decent tripods for about £100 to help).

mark1b

23 Jan 2013 - 3:47 PM

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Cheers Mike and Paul i will be trying to get the pana 14mm. ill see later in the year what my next lens i will get as i do fancy a couple of prime lenses . i do fancy the sigma 19mm for the price as that was originally on my list but i like the pancakes more to do with being able to put the camera in my coat pocket.