The Leica 1.4/25mm is a 4/3, not MFT lens (I used to have one on my E3) and the
Cosina/Voigtlaner is manual focus. For micro 4/3, nothing can touch the
Panasonic 1.7/20mm.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:21 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Nicholas Herndon <nherndon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Olympus had better hit a home run with their rumored 25mm m4/3rds lens,
>> because that Panny is a real hum-dinger. It's made me (temporarily) forget
>> about film.
>
> A home run might be difficult.
>
> There's already a :Leica 25/1.4 and a Voigtlander 25/0.95
> http://www.cameraquest.com/voigt_m43.htm
> Both get good reviews. Where could Oly provide something unique?
> A pancake 25? Macro?
>
> On the other hand, there are several Oly 4/3 lenses that, if they
> were produced in m43, might be very competitive indeed. The 50/2
> macro, 14-35/2 pro zoom and 12-60/2.8-4 consumer zoom are
> ones I can think of. Likely there are others.
>
> Also, there are areas not covered well by current offerings. A
> good prime in the 10-16 range would be sure to sell.
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