Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 Evaluate

Introduction

Ease of Use

The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 is a small, compact and really gentle wide-angle prime lens, and measuring 8.2cm in size, 7.36mm in diameter and weighing in at a mere 310g / 10.9oz.

When mounted on the Lumix S5 mirrorless digicam that Panasonic despatched us for testing, the Lumix S 24mm F1.8 feels extraordinarily well-balanced and appropriate for each two-handed and one-handed use.

Construct high quality is superb. The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 feels stable 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 any built-in Picture Stabilisation, although, with the lens as a substitute counting on the digicam physique’s stabilisation system (if it has one).

When it comes to controls, there is only one – a spotlight mode swap with the usual AF/MF settings.

The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 lens has a reasonably extensive focus ring with a ridged, rubberised grip band.

There aren’t any laborious stops at each ends of the vary, making it harder to set focus at infinity.

Polariser customers must be happy that the 67mm filter thread would not rotate on focus.

With regards to auto-focusing, the Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 is a reasonably fast performer, taking round 0.15 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Panasonic S5 digicam that we examined it with.

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

The liner motor focusing mechanism could be very quiet, actually just about silent, making this lens well-suited to video recording in addition to candid stills images.

The lens ships with a big, spherical, top quality lens hood (S-S24) with a lock button, however there isn’t any case included.

Focal Vary

The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8’s 24mm focal size gives an angle of view of 84º 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 24mm F1.8 check photographs.

Mild Fall-off

With the Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 lens set to its most aperture of f/1.8, there may be important gentle fall-off within the corners. Stopping-down to f/4 just about eliminates this.

Distortion

Barrel distortion is in no way evident.

Sunstars and Flare

The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 is able to producing fairly good sunstars when stopped-down to f/16, as proven beneath. The lens is liable to flare although, particularly when taking pictures immediately into the solar.

Macro

The Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 is not claimed to be a macro lens, however it does supply a helpful minimal focusing distance of 0.24m / 0.79ft and a most magnification of 0.15x.

Bokeh

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

Within the Panasonic Lumix S 24mm 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, nonetheless, that bokeh analysis is subjective, so we have included a number of examples beneath to your perusal.

Sharpness

In an effort to present you ways sharp the Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next web page.