Panasonic's new is certainly as far as the company's camera launches go, but less talked about is the incredibly odd lens that launched with the camera, the one that's featured in many of the camera's beauty shots: . Well, at least two people are talking about it, and none of it is positive. The ever-irreverent comedic camera duo and take the tiniest Panasonic full-framer and accompanying tiniest Panasonic full-frame lens and discuss why it's just a real head-scratcher of a release from Panasonic.
The big headline is a lack of features. The lens does not have autofocus, it has a fixed f/8 aperture, and it doesn't have a filter thread. You can expect some of that when you adapt vintage lenses onto a modern body, but for a 2024 lens release from Panasonic for a body within its own ecosystem, that's just bonkers.
What is anybody supposed to do with this thing? It won't be great for video with a fixed aperture and no ability to adjust that with neutral density filters. It doesn't activate manual focusing aids when you twist the focus ring, and heck, why doesn't it just autofocus in the first place? It seems that in the pursuit of producing a lens that looks great in product shots, the marketing department that designed this lens forgot that people need to take photos with it. Surely, there couldn't have been a photographer in the mix at Panasonic making these design decisions.
I hope. I can get behind oddball lenses, sure. I purchased the because it was a cheap way to get into a .
