New toy - A Panasonic 20mm Pancake

InternautInternaut Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
edited December 29, 2010 in Cameras
Christmas came a little early for me with an impulse buy from a local camera store. Anyway, I had a fun test shoot around Manchester and then took it on a business trip to Harare, Zim:

Blue Hour - Manchester, December 2010

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The bus terminus - Manchester, December 2010

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The Mercedes, Downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, December 2010

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The Zimbabwe Reserve Bank (aka The Printers) reflected, Harare, Zimbabwe, December 2010:

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From hereon, I think this lens is going to be glued to my Olympus E-PL1.

Comments

  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,130 moderator
    edited December 27, 2010
    Congratulations on the new lens. clap.gif
    ziggy53
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  • catspawcatspaw Registered Users Posts: 1,292 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2010
    very nice! I've considered one for my E-PL1, but unless I do have a trip where that's my primary camera, I haven't been able to justify it.

    YET :D
    //Leah
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2010
    Congrats on the 20mm. I keep it on my E-PL1 nearly all the time, except when I am going outside and there is plenty of light and I need a little reach, in which case the kit lens goes back on. But otherwise my 20mm is my go-to lens for everything. It's great!

    It looks like you are putting it to good use. It's a gem of a lens.
  • EphTwoEightEphTwoEight Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2010
    I look forward to that lens! Glad you like it.
  • 20DNoob20DNoob Registered Users Posts: 318 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2010
    catspaw wrote: »
    very nice! I've considered one for my E-PL1, but unless I do have a trip where that's my primary camera, I haven't been able to justify it.

    YET :D

    Wait, we're supposed to be able to justify gear purchases? eek7.gif

    I'm in trouble. rolleyes1.gif
    Christian.

    5D2/1D MkII N/40D and a couple bits of glass.
  • catspawcatspaw Registered Users Posts: 1,292 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2010
    I assure you, I'm VERY good at 'creative' justifications ;) alas, when major appliances start dying off in the house, I find myself financially engaged elsewhere. bOO!
    //Leah
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2010
    Love the pancakes http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=430039&postcount=19

    that 20 looks like fun
    Andy

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  • InternautInternaut Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2010
    The real benefit the pancake has bought is that it changes the profile of the camera so that camera and lens comfortably fit in a laptop case. I can carry the kit zoom also but having a lens on all the time means that for the first time, I've not just photographed where I've travelled to but also the experience of travelling (shots at the airports I've passed through, for example - airports can be real gems of modern architecture).
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