And enjoy your new lens:
More photos of the day will be coming later. Thanks for viewing.
P.S.: Some notes about this lens:
It’s – after the Panasonic 20mm f1.7, and together with a nice but pricey metal 12mm f2 – one of the first real compelling reasons to buy into the micro four thirds system. Others – like Sony – may have the better sensors in their cameras, but no one except Olympus and Panasonic have built a real nice system with great lenses so far.
This one is like the optimal portrait lens, it compares to a 90mm on a “full frame” (or film) camera, and it’s really nice and sharp at all apertures – go and check out the blur graph over at SLRGear.com. It’s also T.O.P.’s “lens of the year 2011“, it won a comparison with 11 other lenses in that focal length range done by Jordan Steele, Robin Wong has shown an impressive two-part test of it, and everybody I know on the internet (like Bill or Andy) or in real life who has one, just loves it. There are Flickr groups like this one, where you can watch slide shows of photos taken with it, in case you’re interested.
Mitchie had the Panasonic 1.7 20mm lens already, and together with this 45mm Olympus, it’s a real nice 2-lens system. For a system with 3 lenses, I would get this one together with the Panasonic Leica DG 1.4 25mm, and either the 17mm Olympus or 14mm Panasonic as a wide angle. Four lenses, add the 12mm Olympus, and more fast primes like a 60mm macro or a 75mm telephoto will probably be announced in a week from now.
Like Canon and Nikon do with the “big iron”, Olympus and Panasonic are clever enough to really build a system. That’s what makes these cameras so interesting, especially if you want small and still good.
Thanks for reading.
Just bought the same camera, but with 14-42 lens. The 45/1.8 is on the top my list as next lens. Will you share some pictures soon ?
Well – it’s my wife’s camera and lens Frode. I have the kit zoom for my E-PL1 only, but I’m sure we will take quite some nice ones with this lens, and with her Panny 20mm. Thanks for commenting.
I know it’s an interesting lens, maybe one day I’ll buy a m4/3 camera with such a lens to complements my x1 (fixed 36mm equivalent) for when I need a middle tele. Beautiful photograph of the camera BTW.
robert
Thanks Robert! And yes, it’s a really interesting lens, and incredibly small for what it does.
Wolfgang, nice writeup. My Panasonic Lumix 20mm f1.7 is one of my favorite. That is the lens that I’m using most of the time write now.
Thanks Andy – and yes, for normal photography on the streets, I wish I had something like that 20mm for my regular Four Thirds camera, or even an equally good 17mm for the Pen.