06-24-2012, 04:59 PM
[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1340555651' post='19058']
The thing that I find very odd is that many people are celebrating this lens as the best thing ever since sliced bread and the very same people were formerly bashing mirrorless pancake lenses a la Panasonic 20/1.7 or Samsung 30/2 as being useless crap.
Must be the illness called "everything is utter nonsense till it's available for my camera".
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Who exactly were bashing the 20mm f1/.7 and 30mm f2 as being useless crap? I do not remember seeing any bashing of those for being pancake lenses? Not on here anyway (can't follow every forum, though).
I do remember strong criticism of the Sony 16mm pancake, because of its awful optics. Mind you, the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 is rather heavy on the vignetting wide open and no star concerning barrel distortion and bokeh, though (judging from the photozone review).
The thing that I find very odd is that many people are celebrating this lens as the best thing ever since sliced bread and the very same people were formerly bashing mirrorless pancake lenses a la Panasonic 20/1.7 or Samsung 30/2 as being useless crap.
Must be the illness called "everything is utter nonsense till it's available for my camera".
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Who exactly were bashing the 20mm f1/.7 and 30mm f2 as being useless crap? I do not remember seeing any bashing of those for being pancake lenses? Not on here anyway (can't follow every forum, though).
I do remember strong criticism of the Sony 16mm pancake, because of its awful optics. Mind you, the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 is rather heavy on the vignetting wide open and no star concerning barrel distortion and bokeh, though (judging from the photozone review).