The Lumix S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO (S-R1428) is a compact, budget-friendly extremely wide-angle L-Mount zoom lens with half-size macro functionality.
This new lens can be accessible from February 2023 priced at €999 / £879.99.
We have already spent a while utilizing the Lumix S 14-28mm forward of its launch. Listed below are some hyperlinks to all of our content material to this point:
Panasonic Press Launch
Panasonic introduces LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO (S-R1428), a compact extremely wide-angle L-Mount zoom lens with macro functionality
Panasonic is proud to introduce the LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO, a brand new budget-friendly ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for the L-Mount system. With a zoom vary making it appropriate for every thing from sweeping panorama photographs to expressive portraits and a macro functionality for close-up work, this can be a versatile lens constructed to excel at a wide range of video and picture duties.
The LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO is comprised of 14 lens parts in 10 teams together with one aspherical ED (Further-Low Dispersion) lens, one aspherical lens, three ED (Further-Low Dispersion) lenses and one UHR (Extremely Excessive Refractive Index) lens. The usage of aspherical lenses permits each sharp element and beautiful bokeh, whereas the three ED lenses successfully suppress chromatic aberration.
Regardless of its compact measurement and low weight (roughly 345g), the LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO boasts 0.25x (at 14mm) to 0.5x (at 28mm) macro functionality. Benefiting from the minimal focusing distance of 0.15m via its total zoom vary, it may be used for close-up photographs with lovely bokeh.
The LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO is able to easy, silent operation, working with the digital camera’s high-speed, high-precision AF system. For the non-linear setting, focus is shifted with a variable quantity in keeping with the rotation velocity of the main focus ring; for the linear setting, focus is shifted with a delegated quantity in keeping with the rotational quantum of the main focus ring. Sensitivity (the quantity of focus shift per rotational quantum) could be adjusted from 90º to 360º, giving the person excellent management over focus efficiency1.
The LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO additionally excels in video recording efficiency, providing professional-level options resembling micro-step aperture management for easy publicity change and a mechanism to suppress focus respiration – typically a serious difficulty on interchangeable lenses designed for nonetheless picture pictures.
The lens’ rugged dust- and splash-resistant2 design makes it appropriate to be used in harsh circumstances, together with at as much as -10º Celsius. A fluorine coating utilized to the entrance lens factor helps repel oil and water. Filters could be connected through a 77mm diameter thread.
The LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO and LUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 lens characteristic a standard total size and place of management elements to offer sensible benefits in use. The load and centre of gravity of those lenses is nearly the identical, permitting customers to trade lenses shortly with minimal steadiness adjustment ought to the digital camera be mounted on a gimbal.
LUMIX S Sequence customers now have entry to a few cost-effective zoom lenses overlaying the generally used 14mm extremely wide-angle to 300mm telephoto vary: the LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO (S-R1428), LUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 (S-R2060) and LUMIX S 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 MACRO O.I.S. (S-R70300). Every of those lenses affords excessive optical efficiency and beautiful mobility when fitted to LUMIX S5 sequence cameras.
The Panasonic LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO can be accessible from February 2023 priced at € 999 / £ 879,99.
The LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 MACRO is a qualifying product for the LUMIX PRO program. The LUMIX PRO program is designed to help LUMIX customers once they want it essentially the most, with a spread of advantages accessible to members not solely in their very own international locations but additionally in international locations that they go to for work. Take a look at www.lumix-pro.com for particulars and Phrases & Circumstances, on eligible ranges, international locations and merchandise.
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