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Lumix 14mm lens

Lumix 14mm lens

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Lumix 14mm lens

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- This next lens was highly recommended to me. I've been wanting to try this one for a long time. - Yup. - I borrowed it from our friends at Lens Rentals. I was looking for a true wide-angle lens for a Micro Four Third. So Lumix is the same thing. That's basically the brand of lenses for Panasonic cameras. - Yeah, and you made a really interesting point there, Rich, is that wide angle on a cropped image sensor, especially a heavily cropped image sensor like a Micro Four Third system is a pretty tall order, and you go out and you get, oh I got a 14-mil lens or I got a 16-mil lens, thinking that it's extremely wide angle. Well, guess what, it's not. - Nope. - 'Cause you have to multiply it by the crop factor, and for most you know, Micro Four Thirds cameras, that's about two, so a 14 mil lens all of a sudden becomes 28. Well, if you take the seven side of this and multiply it by two, that's 14. That's pretty wide still, so a seven to 14, and especially because it's a zoomable range is a…

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