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The Oly 17 is sharper than people say, has moderate (not severe) barrel distortion, and I've never noticed color fringing with it (automatically corrected in Lightroom). I never noticed the distortion either, to be honest. Also, the AF speed is basically identical to the Lumix 20.

I think it's an underrated lens.

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Amin, I agree totally....it's the perfect FOV and I have never been disappointed with any image from it at all.....The size on the Pen is just sexi....well, at 60 it's sexi....

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Actually, one of the reasons that I got the 17mm was so that I don't need to use a finder. I wanted something that gave AF on the E-P1, but was small and discrete (relatively speaking). It really is a very nice combo with the E-P1.

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I have both 17 and 20. When I first got my 20, I was going to sell off the 17. But I realized that the 17 is really sweet. It's quiet, light and the eff focal of 34mm is easier to manage. So, now it rotates. I use the 17 daytime and 20 when it's dark.

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I bought my E-P1 with the 17. It is a great little lens whose focusing performance has gotten better with each update. The chromatic aberration is manageable with Lightroom. Good sharpness. But it is very plasticky. The small chrome ring fell of this past weekend. I'm nervous about the whole thing coming apart. I would have traded a little more weight for a tougher lens.
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Focus performance to me is very good, even in poor light, now with the updates that we've had and I don't really mind the image quality of the lens at all, it's actually very good for what it is. Mine sort of travels around in my vest pocket, car centre console etc and seems to hold up very well, so you may have just been unlucky with your breakage.

The thing is, I think one needs to recognise that if you want the solidity of something like a Voigtlander/Leica/Zeiss lens, you're going to have to pay for it and with AF included, you're not going to get a lens anywhere near as small and lightweight. It's always a case of swings and roundabouts.

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Ray

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The thing is, we're in the 'consumer' grade with m4/3rds... I can't see anything here being in service in 30 years time - things have changed.

Even the Leica M8 and M9 bodies - while retaining the beautiful build quality rely on electronic innards which will become obsolete in the medium term.

May as well go with the flow, and accept the advantages of cheap, lightweight performance for the moment.

Still, there's plenty of room for a bombproof pro-spec m4/3rds package, ideally with upgradeable electronics.

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Brian

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I prevaricated over the 17mm and the Pany 20mm, and ended up going for the 17mm. I have not regretted the decision. (saved myself £100 in the process! The Pany is VERY overpriced).

I like the viewpoint of a 35mm equivalent lens, if the Panasonic had been a 25mm/1.7 (50mm equivalent) the decision may have been different.

As previous poster said, I'm in the 35, 50, 90 camp.

Use, enjoy it, love it. Its a great lens.

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Oddly enough, I reckon an E-P2 (in equivalency terms) will last longer than any M9. If I buy 10 E-P2s (or make that even more E-PL1s) now (or over a short period of time), rather than one M9, and with my manual lenses, I think I'll get many more years of use out of a Pen 2 than an M9. The image quaility may not be quite the match of the M9, but for all intents and purposes, it probably doesn't matter.

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Ray

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