Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 Overview

Introduction

Ease of Use

The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 is a small, compact and really mild normal prime lens, measuring 8.2cm in size, 7.36mm in diameter and weighing in at a mere 295g / 10.4oz.

When mounted on the Lumix S5 mirrorless digital camera that Panasonic despatched us for testing, the Lumix S 35mm F1.8 feels extraordinarily well-balanced and appropriate for each two-handed and one-handed use.

Construct high quality is excellent. The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 feels strong in your hand, even whether it is principally made out of plastic, with a metallic lens mount.

It is also weather-proof, being each mud and splash resistant and dealing all the best way right down to -10 levels. We efficiently used it in a heavy bathe with no antagonistic results.

There isn’t a built-in Picture Stabilisation, although, with the lens as a substitute counting on the digital camera physique’s stabilisation system (if it has one).

By way of controls, there is only one – a spotlight mode swap with the usual AF/MF settings.

The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lens has a generously large focus ring with a ridged, rubberised grip band.

There are not any arduous stops at each ends of the vary, making it harder to set focus at infinity.

Polariser customers ought to be happy that the 67mm filter thread does not rotate on focus.

In relation to auto-focusing, the Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 is a reasonably fast performer, taking round 0.15 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Panasonic S5 digital camera that we examined it with.

We did not expertise an excessive amount of “searching”, both in good or dangerous mild, with the lens precisely focusing nearly all the time within the single AF-S mode.

The liner motor focusing mechanism may be very quiet, in truth nearly silent, making this lens well-suited to video recording in addition to candid stills images.

The lens ships with a big, spherical, prime quality lens hood (S-S35) with a lock button, however there isn’t any case included.

Focal Vary

The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8’s 35mm focal size offers an angle of view of 63º levels.

Chromatic Aberrations

Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, are solely conspicuous by their virtually full absence from our Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 check pictures.

Gentle Fall-off

With the Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lens set to its most aperture of f/1.8, there’s vital mild fall-off within the corners. Stopping-down to f/4 nearly eliminates this.

Distortion

Barrel or pin-cushion distortion are under no circumstances evident in both the JPEG or Uncooked information.

Sunstars and Flare

The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 is able to producing fairly good sunstars when stopped-down to f/22, as proven beneath. The lens is liable to flare although, particularly when capturing straight into the solar.

Macro

The Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 is not claimed to be a macro lens, with a minimal focusing distance of 0.24m/0.79ft and a most magnification of 0.22x.

Bokeh

Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is normally described in qualitative phrases, resembling easy / creamy / harsh and so forth.

Within the Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lens, Panasonic have employed an iris diaphragm with 9 rounded blades, which has resulted in good bokeh in our view.

We do realise, nevertheless, that bokeh analysis is subjective, so we have included a number of examples beneath to your perusal.

Sharpness

As a way to present you ways sharp the Panasonic Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next web page.