Another great video, Mr. W! 🙂 I really love your photographs. Thank you. Paul 😎

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! Cheers Paul!

really appreciate your videos as someone new to still photography and needing some advice that isnt geared towards vloggers and video recorders - your recommendations in this video gave me a great starting point to learn about some lenses in my budget.

@Gary_W

6 ай бұрын

I am very glad I could help! Thank you for the kind words 😁

Great job/info

I have reacquired my kit of Micro 4/3. I can hold these cameras and lenses even at 76. I really like the 12-60 2.8-4 on my G-8. This is a really nice body that probably was too expensive for a mass market. I use a 15 mm Lumix with a 20 mm f2 Olympus and a 42.5 Lumix and a much maligned 45-200 lens that LEAICA helped build. I have the 12-35 2.8 and the 35-100 2.8 I jump to the 100-300with the German tripod mount. I have acquired everything on eBay and found good quality. I tried full frame Sony but my Parkinson's kept me from using it, I am looking at a G9 Mark II once all this stuff is paid for. The lens I miss and cannot find is a 75 mm Olympus 1.8

@Gary_W

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Olympus 75mm f1.8 is quite difficult to find these days, I must say I was extremely lucky to find it at such low price back in 2015.

Nice and positive video with good info also! :)

@Gary_W

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! 😁

Thanks Gary, a very useful video. I love the Lumix 12-60 f3.5-5.6 which although longer than the 35-100 is still light and great value for money. However I’m thinking of getting the 35-100. I also love using vintage lenses, especially Olympus OM & Pentax SMC primes.

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! I would love to try the 12-60 f3.5-5.6 in the future, seems like a solid lens

Thanks for sharing your thoughts........I own all the lens you mentioned.....cheers buddy. I do used a lot of large aperture analogue lenses with an adapter.

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! Cheers!

Nice shots! Really enjoyed this video! Thank you

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! 😁

I have all three of the panasonic lenses you included and they are great. My faves are the 42.5mm f1.7 and the 35-100mm f4-5.6. It’s assumed that you will get better results with pro lenses, but I find that the greatest gains come by improving my technique rather than my kit. The drawbacks to the pro lenses is their cost and weight. The one’s I’ve tried disappointed me. The Oly 12-40mm f2.8 pro was lovely, but I used it almost exclusively at the 40mm end, and found my Panny 42.5mm gave equally good IQ but better low light/subject separation, for well under half the price and weight.

@RoderickJMacdonald

9 ай бұрын

35-100 for me and the Oly 45 1.8, probably for the same reasons. :-). What you say about the Oly 12-40 is interesting. I have been thinking about getting it, but tend to use my smartphone for wide angles/ indoors.

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Just like you, I think the 12-40mm is a great lens and I used it frequently, however I also much prefer to use smaller lenses I mentioned in this video whenever I can.

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

Roderick, the reason I got the 12-40mm f2.8 is only to replace my broken 12-35mm f2.8 for event photography and event video, and sometimes also for recording B rolls where I want to minimize lens changing. If you don't mind lens changing, then I think you'll be fine without the 12-40mm f2.8 😁

Great video. I am actually thinking of getting the 12-32 kit lens for my gx85 just to have something small on it.

@Gary_W

6 ай бұрын

Hello Bo, thank you for the kind comment! If I remember correctly, a few years ago you posted your travel camera setup with the GH4 and the power zoom Lumix 14-42 lens, that power zoom 14-42mm lens could work well too for the GX85. But anyway, the 12-32 can be found really cheap and it's a fantastic lens that I can also recommend. Cheers 😁

@Youknowthebo

6 ай бұрын

@@Gary_W yes, I used to have a gh4. And I ordered the 12-32 from mpb. It should arrive today

@Gary_W

6 ай бұрын

@Youknowthebo good to hear Bo, enjoy your 12-32mm, I think you will like it! Just got back from Japan and I took plenty of pictures and B rolls with that small little lens 😁

Olympus Body Cap 9mm :-) However my favourite MFT lens is Panasonic 12-23. I carry 35-100 too, but I do not use it that often.

@Gary_W

5 ай бұрын

I would love to try the Oly body cap lens, looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

That 14 mm f2.5 lens is the smallest in micro four third world and a very under rated lens

@hieppt

Ай бұрын

Exact, THE lens that I take if I have to choose only one for my trips 😊

Can I make a request? I have the oly 75 1.8 and it’s one of my favourite lenses for sports and portrait photography, it’s a little specialist but if you fancy the most wow m4/3 lens, try going it a try

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

I do have that lens and use it a lot for event photography/event video, I really think it's a great lens. I made a portrait comparison 2 years ago featuring Oly 75 here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZloya6GXbCoaco.html

Hello, I am a newbie and found my mom's Olympus PEN EP-3 camera with broken lens. Looking through the specs I found that it uses micro 4/3 lens. Will all of your recommendation lenses fit my mom's camera? Thank you for the video!

@Gary_W

8 ай бұрын

They all will work with your PEN E-P3 with no problem at all. You should also consider some Olympus versions of these lenses, there are the 14-42mm EZ kit lens, 17mm f2.8 pancake lens, both are awesome alternatives as well.

I mostly user OM1 with Zuiko Pro Lenses and Panaleicas and also use Lumix GM1 + 20mm 1.7f. Quite often it's hard to tell looking at the picture, if it's f.e. OM1 + 17mm 1.2f Zuiko or GM1 :) For me it was it's like 3000€ (new) vs less than 300€ (ebay), quite hard to accept

@Gary_W

8 ай бұрын

That's the law of diminishing return in effect, sometimes we don't always get significant jump in result/performance by choosing more expensive gear. Cheers!

if you look from quality produce by the lense of 35-100 mm f4-5.6 and 14-140, which lense will produse more quality ?

@Gary_W

8 ай бұрын

Sharpness wise, 35-100mm f4-5.6 is slightly sharper, but 14-140 is so much easier to use due to the all in one focal length. In the end, the sharpness difference is not too significant, I am fine using those two lenses and got great results using either one.

20mm version one is slightly sharper than version II. Not a big difference. Panny 42.5 is seriously sharp, but for portraits you may prefer the Olly which is less sharp on the edges, but that's good for portraits.

@Gary_W

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! I didn't know that the 20mm f1.7 mk I is sharper than the mk II, I always had the impression that both are essentially the same optical design, but in different enclosure.

Gary do you use any Olympus cameras or lenses?

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

I do use the 9-18mm, 45mm f1.8, and 75mm f1.8. I used to also own 17mm f2.8, 17mm f1.8 and 25mm f1.8 olympus lenses as well. They are all great lenses but I consolidated those lenses to make everything simpler.

Heyy can suggest good beginner micro 4/3 cam?

@Gary_W

Ай бұрын

Lumix GX880 / GF10, or Olympus PEN E-PL series, or Lumix GX85, or Olympus E-M10 series.

@syahirakbar

Ай бұрын

All of this are beginner lineup right?

Is the Laowa now “budget”? Last time I checked the Lumix-Leica 9mm was cheaper

@Gary_W

9 ай бұрын

I guess it depends where you live, but I definitely got the Laowa a few years ago, much cheaper than the current price of the 9mm f1.7 Leica lens.

@TFPMadcow

9 ай бұрын

@@Gary_W yep, probably a regional thing

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@Gary_W

6 ай бұрын

😁😁

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