Panasonic Leica 25-50mm F1.7 Review
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The Panasonic Leica 25-50mm F1.7 lens is a versatile and well-built lens that is perfect for both photography and videography. It offers a fast aperture zoom and provides excellent handling, build quality, and smooth control rings.
The Panasonic Leica 25-50mm F1.7 lens is a versatile and well-built lens that is perfect for both photography and videography. It offers a fast aperture zoom and provides excellent handling, build quality, and smooth control rings.
Pros
- Fast aperture zoom
- Excellent build quality
- Smooth control rings
- Minimal chromatic aberration
Cons
- Not parfocal
- Requires refocusing when zooming
- Onion ring bokeh at closer distances
The lens exhibits minimal longitudinal and lateral chromatic aberration, ensuring high image quality. Additionally, it offers excellent breathing correction, making it well-suited for video work.
The Panasonic Leica 25-50mm F1.7 lens is a versatile and well-built lens that is perfect for both photography and videography. It offers a fast aperture zoom, giving the full frame depth of field expected from a zoom lens. The lens is physically very similar to the 10-25, ensuring seamless handling and transition between the two lenses. Despite being a chunky lens, it features a solid build quality and is weather-sealed. The all-metal, knurled aperture ring provides stepless control, making it ideal for video use. The lens also boasts a silent, fast, and accurate focusing motor, making it suitable for various shooting scenarios. The lens exhibits minimal longitudinal and lateral chromatic aberration, ensuring high image quality. Additionally, it offers excellent breathing correction, making it well-suited for video work. However, the lens is not parfocal and requires refocusing when zooming, and it may exhibit onion ring bokeh at closer distances.
However, the lens is not parfocal and requires refocusing when zooming, and it may exhibit onion ring bokeh at closer distances.
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