{"id":14581,"date":"2011-07-30T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/30\/lumix-20mm-f1-7\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T03:11:55","slug":"lumix-20mm-f1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/30\/lumix-20mm-f1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumix 20mm f1.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the whole range of micro four-thirds lenses in the enthusiast range, there\u2019s one lens that keeps coming up as a must-have for any user of a m4\/3 camera; and it\u2019s the Panasonic Lumix 20mm f1.7. The lens is compact, very sharp even when shot wide-open, and great in low-light. I\u2019ve been eyeing this lens since even before picking up the E-PL1, but the relatively high price of the lens was a real put off (it cost SGD600 odd back last year). <\/p>\n<p>The lens has dipped a little in local pricing, so I finally decided to bite the bullet this weekend and picked it up at MSColor for SGD550. The vast majority of pictures I take of Hannah these days is in-doors, so this lens was going to help a lot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-e-pl2-20mm\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-e-pl2-20mm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blog-e-pl2-20mm.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since I used a camera coupled at all times with a prime lens, so it sure does bring back those memories of shooting with my first SLR \u2013 a Nikon FG20 with a 50mm prime lens \u2013 25 years ago now! Some early pictures of Hannah at home in the kitchen. =)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2163-evening-play\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2163-evening-play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2163-evening-play.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2165-evening-play\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2165-evening-play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2165-evening-play.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2168-evening-play\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2168-evening-play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2168-evening-play.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2171-evening-play\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2171-evening-play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2171-evening-play.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the whole range of micro four-thirds lenses in the enthusiast range, there\u2019s one lens that keeps coming up as a must-have for any user of a m4\/3 camera; and it\u2019s the Panasonic Lumix 20mm f1.7. The lens is compact,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/30\/lumix-20mm-f1-7\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Lumix 20mm f1.7<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[609,508,514],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-photography-cameras","tag-m4-3","tag-e-pl2","tag-lumix-20mm","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}