ApoTelyt: Olympus and Panasonic compatibility — xiota. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Don Simon Don Simon 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Thanks — that's helpful. Do you also have Olympus lenses to compare? I have the Olympus mm as well. Auto-focus behavior seems to be the same between both lenses.
Jones O. Jones 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Benjamin Anderson Benjamin Anderson 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Both Panasonic and Olympus have exactly one weatherproof model at this time: neocamera. Does this mean that sometimes the lens auto-correction will work across brands?
What are the circumstances in which it will not work? What does "calibration" mean in this context? Is that focus-related? And finally : thanks for the link to the tests. I'm not particularly concerned with MTF50 scores for this lens, though. The newer camera bodies will have support for the distortion correction for cross brand lenses. And I guess it really just depends on how up-to-date Olympus keeps the firmware for future lens. And that's really only go to come into play if you're shooting in JPEG.
I shot it raw when I was using both the Panasonic and the E-M5. It's not like batteries where the brand will advise you to use genuine products. Two of them are collapsible which makes them very easy to pack and well adapted to the Pen form factor.
However the new mm has a reputation to be very sharp and very fast. The only thing not corrected in Olympus lenses and bodies is the color aberration, the other optical defects are corrected exactly the same as with a Panasonic body and lenses.
The color aberration is very easy to correct during postprocessing and it does only show in particular situation : for insance when you have a dark object against a bright background tree leaves against the sky , or in some night shots, with bright lights. In these conditions using a slider for correcting color aberration in Photoshop or Lightroom is very easy. If you like shooting at that focal length, it would be stupid to not get it, just because it is not an Olympus lense.
Same for the kind of lenses not yet available in Olympus system. However if you have a small GF1 and want to have a smaller and lighter alternative, then it can make sense to get the two collapsible lenses or the 17mm. The most interesting lense IMO for a Panasonic owner would be the mm : it is much smaller and lighter than the Panasonic mm and at these focal length you don't reallly need the OIS the mm doesn't have it either and the optical quality has got good review.
You have to define your priorities : what is more important : a small and light package? Image stabilization all the time? How much are you disturbed by color aberration? Is it worth the hefty price tag?
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Apparently, Panasonic uses stronger UV filters in its cameras than Olympus does, and some Panasonic lenses are designed in accordance with this strong UV filtration at the camera level. As a result, selected Panasonic lenses when used on an Olympus body can produce marked purple flare and fringing. These purple blobs tend to be difficult to correct ex-post. As a remedy, Anders W has suggested using UV front or rear filters on the affected lenses to eliminate the purple flare artefacts.
Both Olympus and Panasonic have released tele-converters to enhance the reach of selected tele-photo lenses. The Olympus MC is intended for use with the 2. Due to protruding front elements, these converters cannot be used with other lenses. Moreover, the converter mount design is slightly different , so that the MC does not fit on the Panasonic mm and mm lenses, and the TC and TC cannot be mounted on the Olympus mm and mm lenses.
Recent cameras from Olympus and Panasonic support focus bracketing and focus stacking. They thus make it possible to capture multiple photos from slightly different focal positions focus bracketing and combine them into an image with a greater depth of field focus stacking. This technique can be particularly useful in macro photography where DOF tends to be very shallow. However, on Olympus cameras that support in-camera focus stacking, the function is only available with selected Olympus lenses PRO-lenses and the 60mm macro.
It does not work with Panasonic lenses. Focus bracketing with these cameras for post-processing works at full resolution, though. Modern MFT cameras apply corrections for lens distortion, vignetting, and color aberration when generating jpg-files. These corrections are based on data tables stored inside the camera and lens. Prior to , Olympus cameras only corrected for distortion and vignetting, but not for chromatic aberration CA. This means that when using a Panasonic lens — designed to be corrected for CA in a Panasonic camera — on an early Olympus camera, the JPG-images can show strong color fringing.
So if you are using a pre Olympus camera in combination with a Panasonic lens, you might want to shoot in RAW rather than in JPG in order to be able to clean up the image files more easily during post processing. Despite the issues mentioned above, many MFT shooters mix cameras and lenses from Olympus and Panasonic and are very happy with the handling of their gear, the focusing performance, and the imaging results.
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