Olympus OMD camera user / fan site.
Hello and welcome to my OMD camera user site. This is just me with a modest Olympus OMD EM10 Mark II and three lenses. So far I have the twin zoom kit 14-42 EZ kit zoom, 40-150 kit zoom and Panasonic 25mm f/1.7.
Some comparisons of the 14-42mm EZ kit pancake lens set to 25mm with the Panasonic 25mm f/1.7, with both lenses set to f/5.6. These are all 100% magnification on-screen crops from shots of about half a page of a document, right next to the closest focusing distance of the two lenses.
First up the cruel comparison. I think the 14-42 (left) was right at its minimum focusing distance and perhaps I moved the camera slightly. Anyway, the 25mm f/1.7 looks a lot better but I may discount this comparison slightly in favour of the two below it. However, these were "first shots" so I am showing them here:
Second, more shots (different ones). Which were taken by the 25mm f/1.7? here I retreated just a little bit from the minimum focusing distance to make sure I didn't bias the the analysis by going under the limit with one of the lenses:
It's the slightly better one on the left; the other two were the 14-42 EZ.
What about this shot? The magnification of the 14-42 set to 25mm was slightly different from that of the 25mm prime lens so here I adjusted the size of the picture to make them match more closely. Which are the 25mm and which the 14-42?
Answer: the centre one is the 25mm Panasonic prime lens and the other two are the 14-42 EZ Olympus kit lens.
These were all taken from 1980s printed material. Are there any Olympus fans out there who know?
Some comparisons of the 14-42mm EZ kit pancake lens set to 25mm with the Panasonic 25mm f/1.7, with both lenses set to f/5.6. These are all 100% magnification on-screen crops from shots of about half a page of a document, right next to the closest focusing distance of the two lenses.
First up the cruel comparison. I think the 14-42 (left) was right at its minimum focusing distance and perhaps I moved the camera slightly. Anyway, the 25mm f/1.7 looks a lot better but I may discount this comparison slightly in favour of the two below it. However, these were "first shots" so I am showing them here:
Second, more shots (different ones). Which were taken by the 25mm f/1.7? here I retreated just a little bit from the minimum focusing distance to make sure I didn't bias the the analysis by going under the limit with one of the lenses:
What about this shot? The magnification of the 14-42 set to 25mm was slightly different from that of the 25mm prime lens so here I adjusted the size of the picture to make them match more closely. Which are the 25mm and which the 14-42?
These were all taken from 1980s printed material. Are there any Olympus fans out there who know?
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