your best lens for mu43

[snkenai]

What is your best lens for clean sharp image. Any brand, any type. And what lense are you comparing it to. Please list only one best.

 

[jmacpix]

Hands down the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 for :43: IMHO.

 

[Stephen Geis]

Agree with Jeff - easily over half on my shots are with this lens - and I am never let down with the results.

 

[Alanroseman]

Same here. Panasonic 20mm. It's on the GF1 so often, that I bought a G1 to house the kit lens....

I love the pancake.

 

[FOsteology]

Another vote for the 20mm f/1.7

Arguably THE best native lens currently available for the mft. Although, I hear the PL45 f/2.8 is a strong contender...

 

[ZephyrZ33]

20mm F/1.7

One of the reasons I got into MFT.

 

[Rich M]

I am gonna go with the PL 45/2.8. Many put it into the macro/speciality lens category, but to me the focal length, lens speed, size and bokeh make for a perfect walk around prime.

R

 

[deirdre]

I am gonna go with the PL 45/2.8. Many put it into the macro/speciality lens category, but to me the focal length, lens speed, size and bokeh make for a perfect walk around prime.

This. My 28mm Voigtlander on my M8 is slightly wider than the 20mm, but they are very close lenses, so I often walk around with the 45mm on the GF1 so as to have different lenses on different cameras. I do still use the 20mm, but generally only when I have one body with me.

 

[Grant]

Yes, yes, yes I hate to agree with everyone but the 20 mm f/1.7 is an exceptional lens.

 

[addieleman]

I actually prefer the Panny 14-45mm over the 20mm for normal use: its sharpness is more even across the frame and it has a useful range. It's my most used lens.

 

[carpandean]

20mm f/1.7 is the one "must have" :43: lens, in my opinion. Image quality is great, price is reasonable, and it's fast enough for good low light performance. That said, the 14mm has really got me thinking about the potential of the :43: system, especially now that other large-sensor mirrorless systems (e.g., Nikon) are coming out. The thing makes the camera/lens (in my case, a GF1) so compact, but performances is still very good. If they find a way to build in a decent viewfinder in the traditional rangefinder location, they'd have a modern CL/CLE type system (obviously not a rangefinder, though they could, or could go hybrid like the X100.)

 

[joele]

my two would be the 20/1.7 and my voigtlander 75/2.5 for longer shots...

 

[bpalme]

Love my 20mm , then 7-14mm.

 

[shrimp123]

CV35mm/f1.4.
(mostly used at f2

 

[joanne]

Another vote for the 20mm my only bad images using this lens are down to operator error!

 

[peripatew]

20mm for native, and Canon 50mm/1.4 for adapter (for now until I get more!)

I'd still like to try the 45mm and the 7-14mm.

L!

 

[retnull]

The Panasonic 20 is the sharpest and easiest to use, it is an excellent lens. However, I wind up using an Angenieux C-mount 25mm/f0.95 more often, just because it has a certain weird filmic quality to it.

 

[Vivalo]

Panny-twenty

 

[pjohngren]

20mm f/1.7 is the one "must have" :43: lens, in my opinion. Image quality is great, price is reasonable, and it's fast enough for good low light performance. That said, the 14mm has really got me thinking about the potential of the :43: system, especially now that other large-sensor mirrorless systems (e.g., Nikon) are coming out. The thing makes the camera/lens (in my case, a GF1) so compact, but performances is still very good.

I would have to agree on the 20mm f1.7 and the 14mm which I just spent a day using and found to be terrific - very sharp with great color and no distortion that I could see shooting inside an art center in natural light. But I also love the 14-45 and bought a G1 to put it on, as did someone else. These are all really nice lenses.

 

[playak47]

I agree with 20mm f1.7 also. I just used this lens indoors this entire weekend. It cannot be beat with any other other lens. I wish they had zoom that were of similar aperture. I have not done too much testing in bright light with my 40-150mm zoom yet but I might save that for outside.