Originally posted by thethirdcoast I like your list because I am also an NX shooter and I love the NX60 and NX30. I'd like to get the NX85, but that's just a ton of $$$ to spend on a focal length I don't use often. I was also wondering if you've shot the PL 45/f2.8 on m43? I own and shoot it on a Panny G2, and I feel as though it picks up slightly finer details than the NX60. On the other hand, it gives less DOF control and its bokeh is not as nice as the NX60 bokeh. My opinion is that color rendition between the two lenses is dead even.
Cheers,
TTC
I have been extremely lucky with the nx85mm, I paid a "mere" euro 537 for it. But somehow I have been very lucky with all the other nx lenses aswell. What I paid for it is worth every penny. I love this length, always have. It is enourmously sharp and has incredible detailing and colour/rendition.
Yes, I shot the pl45 macro aswell, on pana gh2 and on oly epl2. All sold. Though the panasonics are truly good camera's, I felt better at home with the oly e-pl 2, which I sold in favour for the e-p3 (more controls and extra features). The best possible sensor is not the all and everything for me, though I do wish the oly had a better iso 1600 - 2000 performance, because simply I need that often in our very dark woods.
The pl45 is indeed sharp, but I did not like its overall caracteristics. It left me with a cold feeling. Now, the nx60 has a multipersoncharacter. At least I think so. Not too sharp wide open, which is absolutely perfect for portraiture of grasses and weeds floating in the wind, also because it has such lovely bokeh. Despite the movement it catches sharp details everywhere and then enchants them with soft rounded edges, so beautiful. Good colours too. And using it for landscapes it is good too, because it is really really sharp stopped down. Very convenient for dof. But you know that. I also love the large hood.
The pl45 rattled like hell .... kept switching the camera off, and restarting it always takes up time ... I must say though, the pl 25 rattles too, but a bit less and softer. That is on my e-p3. I don't think it does that on a pana. No, I did not love the pl45, not for its handling and not for its image rendering and not for its rattling. It is of course an extremely good lens, but not for me.
I also had strange adventures with the dfa 100mm macro, I so wished for the wr one, but all three copies I tried wheren't as good as my older non wr one, which I kept and still use. Maybe because of sample variation, I got a very good non wr one. I love that lens, secretely I call it my Ruysdael lens because of its detailing and colourrendition.
Well, Oly is to give us a 60mm macro lens. And a 75mm one. The 75mm one I am really looking forward to.