{"id":2425,"date":"2020-05-31T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2020-05-31T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T08:08:34","slug":"whats-my-favourite-micro-4-3-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2020\/whats-my-favourite-micro-4-3-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s My Favourite Micro 4\/3 Lens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at The Online Photographer<\/a> Mike Johnston posed a question about favourite Micro 4\/3 lenses. The obvious answer is the 12-35mm f\/2.8. I bought one several years ago largely off the back of Mike’s original review, it sits by default on my G9, and perhaps 90% of my photography by shot count uses it. As he said, it’s like having multiple high-quality primes in one small tube. By any practical definition, that’s my favourite.<\/p>\n

I supplement it with the matching 35-100mm (same thing, just longer), the 100-300mm (capable of serious papp-ing, but also of some subtlety – see above, shot between two boats at 600mm-e),and sometimes the 7-14mm (although that gets very limited use given the 12-35mm is so good at 12mm). Together with the G9 that’s my “serious \/ obvious \/ heavy” kit. (Note that “heavy” is relative, the four zooms weigh a total <\/em>of 1477g.)<\/p>\n

However, maybe the 12-35mm is a lazy choice…<\/p>\n

I also have a second kit, the “social \/ subtle \/ light” kit. This consists of the tiny Panasonic 14-42mm “pancake” power zoom, their 45-175mm, and the Olympus 9-18mm. Total weight 460g. These normally travel as spares with my old GX8, but get pressed into service when I need their remarkable physical characteristics. The 45-175mm is a real gem: only 90mm long (and no longer, it’s an internal zoom) and 210g, in adequate lighting it’s capable of shots just as sharp as the 35-100mm f\/2.8. Its tiny size makes it unthreatening, its light weight makes it easy to hold the camera above your head (e.g. from the back of a crowd) and get sharp shots, even at maximum 350mm-e reach. However if you’re moving, it has another magic property: its size means that it can be held stable in the slipstream. Last year I was lucky enough to get a flight in a two-seat microlite, and here’s one of the shots I took from the back seat \u2013 try that with a 5D and EF100-400m lens!<\/p>\n

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Shot from the back of a two-seater microlite (Show Details)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camera: <\/b>Panasonic DC-G9 | Date: <\/b>22-04-2019 16:38 | Resolution: <\/b>5187 x 3242 | ISO: <\/b>320 | Exp. bias: <\/b>-33\/100 EV | Exp. Time: <\/b>1\/250s | Aperture: <\/b>6.3 | Focal Length: <\/b>98.0mm | Lens:<\/b> LUMIX G VARIO PZ 45-175\/F4.0-5.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Is the 45-175mm lens my favourite? I’m not quite sure, but how about it for a “left field” choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at The Online Photographer Mike Johnston posed a question about favourite Micro 4\/3 lenses. The obvious answer is the 12-35mm f\/2.8. I bought one several years ago largely off the back of Mike’s original review, it sits by default … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}