Ranking my 5 favourite TINY lenses

What is your favourite micro four thirds lens? (Tiny or otherwise!)

The 20mm f1.7 was my first prime, and it was my main lens for more than 10 years. The 12-32mm has also served me well - favorite for travel!

New to m43. Can I use the Lumix lenes with the Olympus Pen? Thanks for the channel. New subcriber

Wow, the best review ever. Exactly what I was looking for. thanks

I love these tiny lenses. And I have a few them already, and looking to add more. Great video, thanks for sharing.

My favorite tiny lens for a casual walk around is the versatile Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.5--5.6 pancake zoom lens. I throw an Olympus 45mm F1.8 (which you covered) and a not-tiny-but-very-lightweight telephoto, the Olympus 40-150mm F4--5.6, in my pockets and head out. This gives me all the focal lengths I'm likely to need without any real weight to speak of. I pair these with my old trusty and venerable first generation OM-D EM-1, and I'm off. (To really cut the weight, maybe I should think about picking up one of the tinier MFT cameras from your top 5 as well . . . but the EM-1 Mark 1 really isn't too bad, bulkwise.)

What a great collection you presented! I have only the 12-32mm but will be buying others. As someone immersed in the M43 world can you can answer a question regarding cross platform lens correction between OM System and Panasonic. I am relatively new to the M43 world having bought a used Olympus em10 iv about 10 months ago. Do you know if it will have lens profiles for most Panasonic lenses that came before the camera was launched. Similarily, will newer Panasonic M43 cameras have built in lens profiles for Olympus lenses? Thanks for any insights that you can provide. Cheers.

Oh, and two more: the Olympus 25mm f1.8. Its slightly bigger than the 45 but what a killer lens. Finally, the Panasonic 45-175 x: Its way bigger than all these lenses, but it does most of what the Olympus 40-150 Pro does at a tiny fraction of the size and weight. I don't understand why that lens is so forgotten!

A killer thing for the 14 f2.5 is the wide angle attachment, which makes it 11.5mm. Its really easy to take it off with the quick release bayonet mount, so I start with it on and take it off while holding it when I want more reach. It roughly doubles the size & weight, but since the 14 starts at near zero that's not a huge compromise. It doesn't change the speed and doesn't seem to hurt the image quality in any noticeable way. I think they are very hard to find, though...

Pls Recommend one for gx1 .. ❤

Hi Emily, i Think your video’s are fun to Watch and inspiring. May I ask you for your expérience please. I recently bought a gx85 and 20mm 1.7 from mpb. Very nice guys. The ibis does a fantastic job with the 20mm as soon as you press the shutter button the bis motor kicks in and the image freezes. But… now I bought a 12-32mm as well and was expecting that the OIS of the lens and the ibis added up would even give more stability. But it doesn’t. The image keeps on shaking. Furthermore I don’t hear the ibis motor kick in when I press the shutter button. So in your experience do you think is there’s something wrong with the lens? Thanks for your reply! Kind regards, Herman

This is the most fun and cheerful photography channel I’ve come across. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep up the good work 😊😊

At present, my absolute favourite is the Leica-Lumix 15mm f1.7. It's such a fun lens, while remaining relatively small!

Still a lovely and entertaining video!

Nice choice! Have no experience with the Oly 17mm f1.8. All the others I've used. For years I thought the Lumix 14mm f2.5 was a bad lens and ignored it. But much later, I learned that it's a type of lens that asks for a lot of attention and work, and if you give it to her, she will perform. My favorite focal lengths are 20mm and 30mm, but that's something personal. The Lumix 20mm f1.7 I had three copies of and all three performed a little bit different. The best one was my favorite lens because there was something analogue to the images taken with it, as if you were shooting film, but got it very sharp. If I'd have to pick an objective winner though, that would be the Lumix 42.5mm f1.7. It is a wonder, not a lens. Sharpness, contrast, micro-contrast, colors, size, stabilization, "Leitz Wetzlar" character, you name it. The only drawback is the lack of weather sealing.

Just a suggestion,your key light should be placed so that u get butterfly lighting 45 degrees above in front of u so that your nose makes a shadow of a butterfly

Lumix Leica 15mm f1.7 - very nice!

can we use this on other cameras? i have the sony zve 10

So glad to have discovered LUMIX cameras if only to find your channel! ❤

what's your opinion about the Olympus 17mm f/2.8 pancake?

I spy the DXO One on your table. I carry mine everywhere.

I like the Zuiko 20mm F1.4.

Love your videos. Which lens would you recommended first the 14mm 2.5 or the 20mm 1.7 on a GX80?

Great video. What do you think of the LUMIX 15mm 1.7 and why didn’t it make the top 5 list?

what is it like to pair the Lumix 20mm f1.7 with a Olympus body?

Question. I have two Olympus pen cameras. Both of them have an image stabilization failure. Can I turn off the camera image stabilization and use Lumix lenses with image stabilization?

I have an Olympus 17mm f/2.8 which was cheap (130 euro) and gives great results. I find 2.8 is plenty of aperture and it is very small! Slowish and noisy autofocus but that’s not a problem for me.

My Olympus 17mm was on my camera when it was hit by a large stone falling several hundred meters on (yes!) Mount Olympus last summer. It still works though the manual focus clutch ring can't be engaged at the moment. Basically, the lens and the OM1 hanging around my neck served as very expensive body armour protecting me from the actual stone strike. The Camera body works fine, though with some scars and a bit of scraping to get the lens-removal button moving freely again. So, I endorse the durability of this lens.

I have Oly 17mm 1.8 + 45 mm 1.8 but honestly after kids were born I just went back to the Oly 3.5-5.6 14-42mm kit lens for small space + versatility in a pinch. But one day I'll go back to primes.

POSITIVELY CHUNKY is my new favourite term. Hope my cat loves it too!

It’s a great list when it starts with the three lenses you kept!

When my Panasonic GH3 was my only camera the Panasonic Lumix G X Vario PZ 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Power O.I.S. lived on my camera and the only other lens in my bag was the Panasonic Lumix G X Vario PZ 45-175mm f/4-5.6 ASPH Power O.I.S. Those two lenses were a great travel kit and both extremely small and light for their focal lengths. I didn't start messing with primes until I switched to APSC, but I'm trading in a couple of lenses for an Olympus E-M5 and the 17mm F/1.8 later this week and if it meets my needs as a nice compact walk around kit I'll likely end up buying some of the Panasonic Leica glass to round out my kit on days that I want something even smaller than my Fujifilm cameras.

Some years ago, a friend into filming with a GH-something recommended a set of cheap CCTV Fujian lenses for my EM-10 (back in the day). I still shoot with them today. But one really stood out: the Fujian 25mm F/1.4 (quirky, defective even - but full of character; glorious fun!). U used it? The 35mm F/1.7 was also cute.

I use both the Pany Leica 25mm f1.4, and the LUMIX 14mm f2.5 on my Pen F. Do you think I’m missing enough to add the Oly 17mm f1.8 to my bag? Love your channel!

Of these 6 lenses, I have 4. I will buy the Olympus 17/1.8, but I will not buy the Lumix 20/1.7. So I'll have 5 out of 6.

Why do you keep dropping your lenses?

One of my favourite lenses is the Chroma Camera 24mm f11 for l39 mount. With a cheap adapter it falls into the same category as the Olympus body cap lenses but is a much tighter fov which is super interesting for this type of lens. It also covers up to full frame if you have any cameras with a larger sensor or a film rangefinder.

I use the tiny, light, plasticky 35-100/4.5-5.6 on my LUMIX GM-5. Love it for a little reach. It has captured some images I love.

The portrait lens I would recommend is the xiaoyi 42.5 1.8, it's said to be a Kodak legacy, good imaging, very tiny, light, quite pretty, comes in silver. I'm guessing it's hard to get in your area though.

I have the 35-100 a great lens and is very useful.

Thanks!

hey just wanted to say that MICRO FOUR THIRDS ROCKS!!!!!!!!

I think I'd take the lumix 42.5 over the oly 45 and I'd love to get a 15mm leica but it's a bit pricey

Hi, I have the G9 but I want to get something more hiking friendly to back it up. So G100 is the one I m looking at. My interest these days is , kids and portraits. So what out of that lot would you recommend?.
I need a stabilised lens which rules out the Oly. I notice that you seem drawn to landscapes so perhaps none of them.
Thanks for your input.

Thanks!

I got the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 with my GF1 (still have it). It is super sharp, probably ons the the best lenses on your list; it's only caveat it the very slow focusing speed.

Great video. What are your thoughts of the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12mm f/2.0 Lens? Thanks