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 Great little Lens for Olympus EP-1 June 17, 2010
Sais (Pittsburgh, PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this lens for travel - seems to have better picture quality than the standard kit zoom lens.
I like it a lot.
 Very compact, but so-so image quality May 21, 2010
Ken Iisaka (Mill Valley, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Simply said: buy the Panasonic 20mm.
I found myself frustrated with the so-so image quality as others reported. While it's a very compact package, I think it's really worth spending some extra for the Panasonic 20mm lens which became the lens I use 95% of the time with my E-P1. You get much better sharpness, even at wide open at 1.7. The image quality from this lens is no better than the Panasonic lens wide open.
Wonderful lens April 23, 2010
Robert A. Franken (St Louis, MO)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A wonderfully compact, clear and easy to use lens without distortion so often found in this size lens.
 Underrated, tiny lens April 19, 2010
Amin Sabet (Boston, MA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The M. Zuiko 17/2.8 has a bit of a bad rap because people often compare it to the outstanding Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 lens. However, 17mm is very different from 20mm, and if you want that "standard wide" angle of view (similar to a 35mm lens on a 35mm frame camera) in a tiny lens, this is the one. Fortunately, it is plenty sharp, and the distortion and color fringing are easily addressed (automatically for Olympus in-camera JPEG shooters as well as by some 3rd party RAW converters). Although I use my Pana 20/1.7 more often, I enjoy using the tiny M. Zuiko 17 when I want that angle of view. It's a good little performer. You can see some samples taken with this lens here: [...].
Great small lens, step above kit lens for depth of field effects February 28, 2010
Paul Liesenberg (bay area, california)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a great little lens. the smallest lens for M43. the Panasonic 20mm, which is also labeled a "pancake", is the size of the 14-42 kit Olympus kit lens (in transport position), that is, quite a bit larger than this lens.
As others state, first off it is very compact.
Image quality is very good. I am not sure why some say that the kit lens is sharper. I can't see it. What may happen is that this lens, having a bigger aperture, has far more lungs to play the depth of field game than the kit lens. The kit lens stops at 3.5 at the 28mm equivalent, this one is 2.8 at 35, far more open. It can blur parts of the picture... if you want it to, for some compositions. It is very sharp in the middle, it may soften some to the edge.
The only reason I am not giving it 5 stars is its somewhat limited scope and price. At $270-something it is pricey considering it is neither the fastest not the widest lens. If it was the traditional f1.8 the Ply used to have in the OM lenses, different story. I hope they get there. Also consider the Panny 20mm, but of course it's over $100 extra.
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