I have been shopping around for this lens and a local shop told me it has
been discontinued. Also some forums mentioned this. This is a very sharp lens
but focus is slow and not optimised for video due to noisy focus motor. Are we
going to see a new 20mm pancake from Pana this year?

New Digital camera bodies always get better but new lens design sometimes get worse.
That's why I just bought a new "old design" 14-45mm on ebay. The 14-42mm they are
selling now is lousy.

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Added on April 6, 2012, 5:57 amThat's the price we pay to have smaller camera bodies. I think those
complaining are mostly those with large hands.
The buttons and controls don't feel solid because of rubber seals
used to make them water resistant.

This post has been edited by enviro: Apr 6 2012, 05:57 AM

Olympus owners often use pana lens which are usually better quality but Panasonic users will
not use Oly lens bcos they will lose the IS function.

Get the Oly OM-D and you can use the best lens from both OLY and Pana

I will get the OM-D in 6 month I hope. The only m43 thing I own right now
is a Pana 14-45mm lens. Got lens no camera

A good lens to get for your OM-D ?

"Panasonic confirms at Amateur Photographer that the “new 12-35mm f/2.8 lens is expected out at the end of June, priced £1,000.” Interesting that Panasonic didn’t mention the other new 35-100mm f/2.8 X lens. Don’t know if they forgot to mention it or if that lens will arrive even later! I guess the price in Euro will be 1.100 and expressed in Dollars $1,150-1,200. That’s half the price of the Olympus Four Thirds 14-35mm f/2.0 (here on eBay) and also a couple of hundred dollars less than a lens like the 24-70mm L f/2.8 from Canon."

In a few month it will be rm2500

I was thinking in 3 month time . These special Retro design cameras usually
have longer product life cycle like X100 which is approaching 2 years ? since
announced

RM2 prawn mee - where are the prawns and sliced pork ?

This post has been edited by enviro: Apr 25 2012, 06:49 AM

Original Fuji X10 battery at rm100 to rm110 is quite reasonable I think.

OM=D review by Steve Huff

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/05/06/t...-by-steve-huff/

Something to look forward to on 21st May but bound to be expensive at rm3 to 4k

"In that meeting Mr. Uemtasu unveiled that the new 12-35mm f/2.8 X lens will be announced on may 21th! Apparently Uematsu told them to not officially publish that news but the Italian blog wrote the news anyway
Uematsu also said that the 12-35mm f/2.8 is produced in the Panasonic Yamagata Plant in Japan and matches the quality of the Leica lenses! It has nano surface coating, power OIS. powerzoom."

When time to sell, potential buyers will search their post and see everything
wonderful and good ? For the low downs go to dpreview

This post has been edited by enviro: May 16 2012, 10:56 AM

Very nice but this combo will cost RM7K to 8K. Worth or not?