Description

Description

• A high quality standard prime lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras, offering a 35mm equivalent focal length of 50mm.
• Leica designs the optics and Panasonic manufactures it in Japan.
• It has a fast maximum aperture of f/1.4, which is ideal for low light and shallow depth of field.
• It features a Nano Surface Coating to minimize ghosting and flare, and an iris diaphragm with seven rounded aperture blades.
• It has a metal lens mount and a responsive manual focus ring.

Image Quality

• It delivers great quality results, with sharpness across the frame, even wide open at f/1.4.
• It has very low chromatic aberrations, distortion and vignetting.
• It produces smooth and attractive bokeh, thanks to the f/1.4 aperture and the rounded blades.
• It has good resistance to flare and ghosting, thanks to the Nano Surface Coating.

Build Quality

• It has a high standard of build quality, with a solid and sturdy construction.
• It is fairly small and light for a standard lens, measuring 54.5mm in length and weighing 200g.
• It comes with a large lens hood and a cloth storage bag.
• It is not weather sealed.

Other Features

• It offers almost silent and very quick autofocus, with an internal focusing mechanism.
• The 46mm filter thread does not rotate on focus, which is convenient for using polarizers and graduated filters.
• Manual focusing is possible in a focus-by-wire fashion, which enables the camera to display a magnified view of the subject automatically.
• It is compatible with all Micro Four Thirds cameras from Panasonic and Olympus.