Panasonic 25mm f1.7 for $99 at Adorama and B&H with Free Shipping (expired)

[iamwhoiam]

Had been planning on buying the 20/1.7 but then this deal came along. Had gift cards from B & H from GX7 purchase last year so picked up the 25/1.7 and an SDHC card. The gift cards covered the entire purchase.

 

[snaimpally]

Panasonic 25mm f1.7 - is this a new lens? I already have the P 20mm f1.7 pancake and the 25mm f1.4 PanLeica. Is the 25mm f1.7 any better than those two? Any reviews?

 

[Wisertime]

Yeah, that's where I was going to order it from, but I discovered that it was out of stock this morning. Samy's charges California sales tax anyway so it's cheaper getting it from the east coast where they only charge New York sales tax.

The lens was listed as out of stock (but orderable) everywhere I looked. Nothing like a deal to empty the warehouses.

Brian

I found at least 3 places googling that have it

 

[sammykhalifa]

Panasonic 25mm f1.7 - is this a new lens? I already have the P 20mm f1.7 pancake and the 25mm f1.4 PanLeica. Is the 25mm f1.7 any better than those two? Any reviews?

While it is supposed to be pretty good, I imagine it's directly worse than the 1.4 you have.

 

[Turbofrog]

Panasonic 25mm f1.7 - is this a new lens? I already have the P 20mm f1.7 pancake and the 25mm f1.4 PanLeica. Is the 25mm f1.7 any better than those two? Any reviews?

Yes, it's a new entry level lens. Likely will appear as a kit lens on some future cameras. Not many reviews out there. One from ePhotozine, and a few Japanese shooting impressions.

From what I've gathered so far...faster autofocus than the 20mm/1.7 but probably not sharper overall. Probably similar sharpness to the PanaLeica, worse flare performance, but almost half the weight and fraction of the price. Similar size and fairly cheap plastic build quality, though. But it's not f1.4, and probably not nearly the same attention paid to designing a nice "rendering."

If you are happy with both your lenses, there's no actual advantage to the new 25/1.7. Unless you want to sell them and pocket a bunch of money.

 

[agentlossing]

Yes, it's a new entry level lens. Likely will appear as a kit lens on some future cameras.

I doubt that they'll kit it, I wish they would but it's against the current marketing trend for... pretty much every camera company.

 

[Jonathan F/2]

I doubt that they'll kit it, I wish they would but it's against the current marketing trend for... pretty much every camera company.

How's that? The 20mm 1.7 was a kit for the GF1 and GX7 and the 17mm 1.8 was a kit for the E-P5. It wouldn't be far fetched if Panasonic will kit the 25mm with a future camera body.

 

[fredlong]

I doubt that they'll kit it, I wish they would but it's against the current marketing trend for... pretty much every camera company.

Well, they've sold kits with both the 20/1.7 and 14/2.5 in the past so maybe...
Fred

 

[InAssisi]

I got my order in. Any more sales?

 

[Savageajc]

Ugh too late, says exceeded warehouse limit! I was planning on using this $20.00 credit I had with them ( Adorama) that expires Dec =/

 

[Brian Beezley]

Ugh too late, says exceeded warehouse limit!

Just order by phone. That's what I did when I got that message.

Brian

 

[mw6sense]

How did people do with the new lens? I got mine last monday and put it to test. I paired it with E-PL5 and stock lens hood and already found some purple fringing on two out of my first ten outdoor pictures. I bought locally from adorama so I still have some time to test it out.

 

[Turbofrog]

How did people do with the new lens? I got mine last monday and put it to test. I paired it with E-PL5 and stock lens hood and already found some purple fringing on two out of my first ten outdoor pictures. I bought locally from adorama so I still have some time to test it out.

Hmm, that's unfortunate. Did you find that it was difficult to remove with PP? Is only wide open? Centers vs. corners?

It's funny, there are quite a few inconsistencies with lens reviews in the M4/3 space because it not only depends on the body used (Panasonic or Olympus) but also whether it's uncorrected RAWs (i.e RawTherapee), corrected RAWs (Lightroom, DXO, etc...), or OOC JPEGs with body-specific corrections.

It gets even more confusing because of the different philosophies with lens coatings. Olympus filters out UV using the lens coatings, whereas Panasonic does it with the on-sensor stack. This is the cause of the "purple flaring" with the Panasonic 7-14mm on Olympus bodies. I'm convinced that beyond extreme aberrations like that, however, that this leads to more CA using non-Olympus lenses on Olympus bodies. Or, by contrast, slightly less CA using non-Panasonic lenses on Panasonic bodies. I found, for instance, that I get much less CA using the Olympus 4/3s 11-22 HG lens on my GX7 than you get using the same Olympus lens with an Olympus E-M5.

Nothing's ever straightforward...

 

[mw6sense]

Hmm, that's unfortunate. Did you find that it was difficult to remove with PP? Is only wide open? Centers vs. corners?

It's funny, there are quite a few inconsistencies with lens reviews in the M4/3 space because it not only depends on the body used (Panasonic or Olympus) but also whether it's uncorrected RAWs (i.e RawTherapee), corrected RAWs (Lightroom, DXO, etc...), or OOC JPEGs with body-specific corrections.

It gets even more confusing because of the different philosophies with lens coatings. Olympus filters out UV using the lens coatings, whereas Panasonic does it with the on-sensor stack. This is the cause of the "purple flaring" with the Panasonic 7-14mm on Olympus bodies. I'm convinced that beyond extreme aberrations like that, however, that this leads to more CA using non-Olympus lenses on Olympus bodies. Or, by contrast, slightly less CA using non-Panasonic lenses on Panasonic bodies. I found, for instance, that I get much less CA using the Olympus 4/3s 11-22 HG lens on my GX7 than you get using the same Olympus lens with an Olympus E-M5.

Nothing's ever straightforward...

F stop was at 4.5. The flaring was right across in the middle. Funny thing was I wasn't pointing to the sun. When I get a chance, I will post it on here for everyone to see.

 

[6BQ5]

Looks like another review of the lens was posted, this time on an Australian site called Photo Review :

Panasonic Lumix 25mm f/1.7 ASPH. lens - Photo Review

The review is very favorable.

 

[Turbofrog]

...I just bought a 2nd one, because I remembered that my mom also has a GF3 with the 14-42PZ tenaciously glued to it. The trouble is that she mostly uses it in the iAuto setting which limits it to ISO 800, and at 25mm the PZ lens is at ~f4.8, so lower light images will inevitably be blurry and poor. This is 3 (!) stops faster at the same focal length.

Hopefully I can convince her to give it a try, haha.

 

[madmaxmedia]

Has anyone's BH order shipped yet? I ordered early in the week, at that time it had the same pre-order message as now.

 

[snaimpally]

Yes, it's a new entry level lens. Likely will appear as a kit lens on some future cameras. Not many reviews out there. One from ePhotozine, and a few Japanese shooting impressions.

From what I've gathered so far...faster autofocus than the 20mm/1.7 but probably not sharper overall. Probably similar sharpness to the PanaLeica, worse flare performance, but almost half the weight and fraction of the price. Similar size and fairly cheap plastic build quality, though. But it's not f1.4, and probably not nearly the same attention paid to designing a nice "rendering."

If you are happy with both your lenses, there's no actual advantage to the new 25/1.7. Unless you want to sell them and pocket a bunch of money.

Thanks. Good that Panasonic is making a "normal" prime available at such an affordable price. I find that I tend to use the 20mm more because its a pancake and so takes up less room in my bag and have been thinking of selling off the 25mm f1.4.

 

[lewis44]

Has anyone's BH order shipped yet? I ordered early in the week, at that time it had the same pre-order message as now.

Mine shipped from Adorama, expected the 1st part of next week to California

 

[Krigskoen]

Has anyone's BH order shipped yet? I ordered early in the week, at that time it had the same pre-order message as now.

Still waiting, but their website now says: Expected availability: December 03 2015