Lumix 7-14mm Zoom lens for M43 - Hands On User Review in Carlisle - "That Micro 4 Thirds Guy"
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I love that lens and have used it for real estate for years. It is a fabulous lens, very sharp excellent colors, a real joy to use. You do indeed need to keep it dead level and pay very close attention to the verticals. You have to frame things carefully, but boy does it do a nice job. It flares occasionally, you need to watch for that, but it is rarely a problem in interior real estate. Chandeliers might get some multiple reflections. Now, if you would like a tilt shift you can use that lens to make a tilt shift effect. Since you have to shoot that lens dead level and at a height usually near mid height of a room, you can get more ceiling than you may want, you may desire to emphasize the floor. In that case, if you aim the lens down slightly, zoom out farther than you need, wider is better, the verticals will of course be off, BUT if you then straighten the verticals in post, you will find that once you crop, you have more floor showing and you have emphasized that, and everything is nicely vertical. So, in that case you are deliberately not shooting level for a purpose. You have a faux tilt shift effect. Wonderful lens for interiors, it has never let me down. Works great for blended images and bracketing. You covered it pretty well. If you know what you are doing and know what you want it is a good lens at an excellent price.
A marvelous photo walk! I liked the photos a lot, but that handheld footage is a bit dizzy to watch, sorry! Just a bit too shaky.
Totally agree. I'm slowly finding my style....and you're right, that's not it lol
I’m just waiting for a secondhand one I’ve just bought on eBay. Was looking for a wide angle zoom for landscape shots on a holiday in Scotland and found this for a bargain along with a 3D printer printed filter holder for it. I’m hoping I don’t have to worry too much about it getting wet as I’m sure it probably will
Happy New Year 2024! Thanks for the honest real world use review of this lens. I am currently using a Tokina 12-24 f4 adapted using a Metabones to get somewhere around a 35mm field of view of similar to a 16-18mm on the wide end. pictures look good as long as I focus peek. I have been debating if getting a auto-focus ultra wide angle faster aperture lens to help get quicker shots. I should probably stick with my current combo of switching to the 25mm f1.7 when trying to take photos of a fast moving grandson. Cheers.
Happy new year to you too and thank you for the compliments and feedback.
for EF-S mount users - sigma 10-20mm 4.5-5.6 lens with Viltrox 0.71 focal reducer gives 14mm angle with out serious vignetting and iq is quite good. (but heavy)
I find the 7-14mm to be a fine lens, albeit with all the 'issues' that crop up with almost every lens of similar focal range, regardless of brand, unless it's one of a handful of very expensive lenses for full frame cameras. I bought mine secondhand which is possibly the best way to go, given it's 'new' price. The Leica 8-18mm is a tad sharper, but much more expensive and larger, worth it if it might be your main lens though. The 7-14mm is nicely compact in keeping with the ethos of MFT, and I'm very pleased to have it in my bag for those 10% of very wide shooting opportunities.
I actually bought one of these from mpb.com this very week! I have to confess to rather enjoying a bit of 'ultra-distortion' now and again. When I used Canon's EOS system in film days, my 20mm lens was always a favourite. I've replaced an olympus 9-18mm with the 7-14. Thoroughly enjoying your videos 🙂
Brian, i have the older olympus 9-18mm four thirds lens(just because the mft version were always out of my buget) with adaptor and thats about as wide i would dare to go. Slow to focus,bigger and heavier, but excelent lens.Just one issue i need to mention. The video part you walking and talking about this lumux lens were very very choppy and unstable. Notice you uses your iphone. Shows why ibs is so needed nowadays.But still enjoy you video contens.
Quite unique this lens. Starting to look in used market in Malaysia.
Re. your lens flare comments; as you are aware and demonstrate, there is an issue, particularly, with some Olympus sensors where there is a pronounced purple flare, thought to be a reflection off the sensor.
I bought a gel filter holder designed for the Panasonic 8mm fisheye, and fitted it in place of the baffle at the rear of the 7-14mm.
This holds a small slice of a Wratten 2A gel UV filter, which helps very much, though they are very hard to find these days.
Great advice, thank you
@@ThatMicro43Guy Have a read of the first post here, which contains the part number for the filter holder, and then go on to the very last post for a link to the next thread. In that there are some photos of the conversion.
I used a Wratten 2A, though a 2E may be more readily available in the UK.
www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51390321
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wratten_number
very good points on the ultra wide lens usability.
I use 7-14mm Olympus PRO for filming in the extremely tight spaces, and on tripod, so I have time to setup for the least distortion, should I want to avoid it.
Thanks for sharing
i need to get this lens.
I read some tests for this lens. It is quite expensive, and one should not buy uninformed. I decided against it because it is a very specialized lens which I do not really need. For landscapes, 28mm (FF equiv.) is usually dramatic enough to get a view from foreground to background. The lens has a lot of CA. Did you never notice that, or can it be removed completely? Also, I would kindly ask to add more information to the images in the videos, at least F-stop and focal length. E.g., the archway at 11:31 has blurred corners, why?
when your talking please lose the music it is very irritating, but is very nice to follow some one of of my generation
Have you tried 8-18mm?
No, I only tend to review items I actually use and own. So it will be rare for me to do back to back comparisons of competing items. I believe it is an excellent lens though and gives a bit wider reach too.
The PL8-18 is awesome, and can also be used with filters (67mm).