Lens Talk: Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm F2 Prime Lens
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There are many standard lenses, including PRO lenses that cover 12mm wide angle, so is the M.Zuiko 12mm F2 prime lens relevant?
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The Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm F2 is a lens I seldom use. This unit was on loan from Olympus Malaysia. This video is not a review of the lens, it is me merely speaking about my experience using this lens, and of course sharing some of my recent shots with it. I love the compact form factor and great image quality. Perhaps this may not seem like a good option for those who own 12-40mm PRO and 12-100mm PRO, but if you need something as small as possible to complement smaller camera bodies, and you need that extra boost of aperture at F2 to brave extreme low light shooting, then the Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm F2 is surely for you.
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I love my 12mm f2. Small, light, wide aperture, and IQ is fantastic.
In spite of the hype surrounding the 9mm leica 1.7 I find myself leaning towards this lens more some how. Price is against it and it is not weather sealed .... but it seems to be just about right somehow. I would love to see a comparison between the superb 9mm leica and the superb 12mm olympus. I reckon they are both equally good.
I am also studying the various wide angle options for use on a G9. I am not sure, but it might be that this lens is less warpy on the edges than the PL 12mm. The videos of the PL people's hands warp a lot, but I don't notice this in Robin's video and his hands are very active.
I always enjoy seeing the joy you have in what you do! Keep up the good work! Your articles sure helped me fall in love with Olympus even before holding one in my hands!
Thanks Mike! Appreciate the kind words!
I really enjoy the 12mm prime, so small, so sharp, and it delivers great contrasted images in good light.
It is a great little lens!
You are spot on with comments about the 12mm f/2! Both the 12~40mm pro and the 12mm f/2 Prime are very sharp, and in my kit. The prime version is such a joy to use on my Pen-F, that I hesitate to load the zoom at times! I’m not a WA fan, but the prime 12mm f/2 (with hood!) is wonderful combo for the Pen bodies. Robin, I love your shots & perspectives! Your world intrigues me and I love your environmental captures! Best wishes!
Thanks Jeff for the kind words! will surely do more of similar videos exploring Kuala Lumpur or other areas of Malaysia.
Great content. Super comparisons and appreciate the editorials.
Robin, thanks for another interesting and informative video! I am very grateful for all the time and energy you are putting into your videos. I love your blog and I also love your videos. They are wonderful learning tools and your enthusiasm for photography is contagious.
Thanks Gilbert! My goal is to have more people go out with their cameras and enjoy photography!
Robin you are a very dedicated Photographer who enjoys giving of your time in helping those who need help. Thank You for your time!
I have the 12 - 50 Olympus with macro feature which seams to have disappeared from sale it is great 👍 I use it on my em1 mk1
I've been watching, learning and enjoying your videos for years now, this is from your early days on youtube, and I can't believe how young you looked, and had more hair! Even your voice sounds younger, wow! But of course, we were all younger, lol! I have the 12-40mm PRO, but am considering this lens, as it's so small and light, and less obvious, for street photography.
bought it for cheap
I like the way you shot different angles of the same scene to give new prospectives. 👍. Also, the images were nice and sharp.
Thanks! We try to find different perspective always.
Thank you for another good, informative video. Your pictures are fantastic! I have the Pen-F and for wide angle I use the 12-40 2.8 pro lens. It is quite heavy and bulky on the Pen-F but It's OK for me. I've ogled with the 12mm but my choice was the 12-40 2.8. I am also happy with the 17mm 1.8 and the 45mm 1.8.
Thanks for the kind words, and I would think the 12mm fits the PEN-F better, though you already know that 12-40mm can do a lot more!
@@terrywbreedlove I have big hands and I have the original Olympus half case constantly on (?) the Pen-F. The Pen-F has a better grip with that and it was the best solution for me (and my hands) 😉
@@robinwong I have big hands and I have the original Olympus half case constantly on (?) the Pen-F. The Pen-F has a better grip with that (especially with the 12-40mm lens) and it was the best solution for me (and my hands) 😉
Thank you Robin. You always deliver a well paced informative video.
I love this lens. It's not the sharpest but its sharp enough. I like it for architecture and city landscape.
For those who own 12-40 f2.8 it still worth of getting the lumix 12mm F1.4. That lens has bokeh that is way superb compare to OM 12mm F2, it alsp better close-up performance and probably the best colour rendering i have ever seen.
I just find your channel. You did very good jobs on producing these videos. Your pictures are very good too. I like your videos particular because you are inviting, happy, very positive, and make me very comfortable listening to what you said. thumbs up!
Great stuff again Robin.
Thanks Peter!
Thank you so much for your video! 👍 you supported me in my decision to buy a new lense. I will use it to photographing landscapes on my hike trails!
The Oly 12/2 with a Panasonic GM1 or GM5 makes a great coat-pocket camera.
Agreed!
Thank you very much for this video. I learned how to get the level feature to show up! Really enjoy learning from your videos in general.
I’m still on the look out for a used M.8mm f1.8 fisheye lens to complete my Olympus primes having just got the M.12mm f2.0 although I do have the 9mm fish body cap.
Thanks for another excellent revue 😊👍
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Hi Robin yet another great review on Olympus equipment, I am also a Olympus camera user but on a smaller budget OM-D 10mkiii and Pen PL9, Could you please review the Olympus 14-150mm ii lens for me as I can not afford to buy the Pro lenses and would like a do it all Zoom for my camera, Many Thanks Robin keep up your excellent review blog.
Gerry UK
Thanks Gerry! 14-150mm lens seems like a fun lens to shoot with. I will definitely do a video about that lens. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you Robin. I have the 12-40mm Pro for my EM1 MKII and I was wondering whether the image quality from the 12mm prime might be better, but you've answered that one for me.
I really want olympus to update this lens. With weather sealing, sharper corners at f2, and a manual focus clutch without discrete steps, this could be a star lens for those that like small primes. Meanwhile, I'm saving up for the panaleica 12mm because of my need for speed at that focal length
Hopefully Olympus makes that happen.
Although I shoot Lumix, I find your videos very informative.
Thanks John! I hope there is something for everyone.
Great video. Thank You. Best regards from Kiel, Germany.
Thanks for the show of support!
Brilliant review , great advice , thanks very much . oh and mega photos .
Good information Robin. I have several different brands of cameras, one of which is a Panasonic micro 4/3 so appreciate the video.
Thanks Tom, glad you have found the video useful!
Thank you.
Hi Robin. I love your videos not only because I'm interested in the Olympus system, but because they afford me an opportunity to learn more about the Malaysian culture and lifestyle. This modern high rise apartment building for example. It seems to have its own tennis court and art installations either in the complex or nearby, and you say it attracts hipsters, who I infer are younger college-educated people working in the arts and perhaps high technology. But yet the residents seem to hang their clothing out to dry on the building's outdoor railings, which would be prohibited in a similar building here in the West. Does the building not provide washing machines and dryers and similar amenities? Is that common throughout KL? Just curious and please keep up the great videos...
Those are low cost apartments for the low income brackets, hence the individual units have very limited space. Hanging out cloths outside is a very common practice here. The apartments come empty, so we have to furnish it ourselves.
Awesome shots
Thanks!
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I love yours videos my friend ....cheers from Chile
Robin; please keep providing these great and useful reviews. I was considering buying this lens although I already own the Olympus 12-40 F2.8 Pro lens. Given your thoughts I decided not to purchase this lens although the lens itself is very useful to those needing a lens covering a wide angle view.
I wish i knew about this before I bought the panasonic 15mm lens
Thanks for the video. The stills, as always, are very nice! I normally use the level indicator in the viewfinder. I have not always kept the image level with optical viewfinders and that feature in the EVFs is extremely helpful to me.
Yes, the level gauge is extremely useful!
Now that I'm shooting mainly video, I'd prefer to have the 12-40, but I've enjoyed owning and using the 12mm F2 very much.
One thing you didn't mention about the 12mm lens is the ability to switch rapidly between manual and autofocus using the focus ring clutch mechanism on the lens itself. I've found that to be very useful.
Nice to see you here Doug! Yes, the manual focus switch was quite handy!
I was attracted to the 12mm f/2 when it was first launched - I like 12mm, I like small, I thought f/2 would be impressive. Then I found that when I think 12mm, I often want deeper DOF, so f/2 didn't keep it's attraction. And last time I remember, it's not a cheap lens (it should not be, it is well made). So I didn't get it. One day maybe, someone will sell theirs cheap to me, hint, hint...
I get what you mean, when it was first launched there were not that many options for small and compact primes, and the 12mm F2 seems like a great option to keep the camera and lens combo as small and as light as possible.
I don't know, but I've never used this lens, maybe I'm waiting for 12mm f/1.2 PRO :)
Hi, make a video about camera em1ii camera settings you changed when purchased camera/updated to firmware 3.1?
While the firmware brings significant changes and improvements to the E-M1 Mark II, the settings I use remain the same, and can be found on my OM-D cheat sheet.
Hi there!Just stumbled upon your channel, nice to meet another fellow Malaysian on TH-cam..nice review :)
Thanks for stopping by! Malaysia boleh!
Robin Wong Indeed! 👍
I use to own this lens, the IQ is about the same compare with the 12-40 pro.
I have similar finding too
yeah charts would indicate that it is the same but flare resistance of the 12mm is better than the prozoom. prozoom has very bad veiling flare when in bright lights and ghosting is more prevalent in the zoom.
@@subliminallyinc of course, it is much easier to design optics for a prime lens.
@@robinwong just trying to point out that the 12mm prime has merits over the 12-40 prozoom. everyone gushes over the fact that the 12-40 is way better but its got a few flaws that most sites overlook. I owned the 12-40 but got rid of the it due to the unacceptable flaring. In fact the 4/3 zuiko 14-54 does better in this domain.
@@subliminallyinc actually this information is quite helpful … because I have been trying to decide if the this expensive lens is worth it. There is also the the 9mm Leica which appears to be very good from reports … but some some how this one appears more endearing to me as an investment…
those apartments look cool to shoot : )
It was a cool place indeed!
This lens is a Gem :)
Lumix 9mm F1.7 supersedes this lens
Hi robin - i have the 12-40 pro f2.8 and taking your advise on that thanks. Just wondering if f2 or at f2.8 prime rendering would be different from the 2.8 pro ? - pen-f user. Awesome content and thanks. Btw awesome to see a fellow malaysian content!
I would like 2 see 2 things
1st. Iso performance of omd em1 mark ii vs fujifilm xt3.
2nd 12-60 mm leica lens on omd em1 mark ii
You know I can't do those right? For 2 reasons. I am currently an Olympus Visionary. Secondly, I have vowed NEVER to do any more comparisons between any products. I did one before, I spent so much time and effort to do that, yet people came back and shredded me to pieces just because they disagreed with my opinion. No matter how fair I made the comparison to be. No more.
Don’t use it that much… actually scarce. But I love that tiny bastard!
Could you use this for portraits with decent bokeh as well?
Hi Robin. Very nice video, as usual.
Why don't you review lenses by Lumix or Sigma?
Because I am an Olympus Visionary, at the moment I cannot do reviews of other brands.
What about the Oly 9-18? You didn't mention that one in the wide angle options. Not as fast of course as the 12mm or the Pro zooms but quite a bit cheaper than both.
I don't think the 9-18mm is in the same league in terms of build quality and optical performance when compared to 12mm F2 or any of the PRO zoom lenses. Hence I left it out. The 9-18mm is a fantastic lens, maybe I will do a video about it some time soon.
@@robinwong agree on build quality but would be interested in a review by you on the 9-18. I have one myself and have taken some excellent photos with it. I was thinking about whether to get the 12mm f2 but as I am mostly shooting in good light outside and shoot around f5.6 don't really need f2 or shallow dof and so find it hard to justify the 12mm f2 and feel the 7-14 Pro would be a bit on the large size for long hikes in the mountains.
Hey robin. Fellow malaysian in perth here. What do u think of tbhis lens as a vlogging lens? Is the video ois ok? In using the 17mm f1.8 but its a bit too narrow
Thanks for the review! What if you compare this lens with 17mm f1.8? What is optically better (chromatic aberation etc.)? I want to buy prime lens and I want to make decision between these two. (My only lens now is 12-100 f4 Pro). What is your recommendation? Thanks
I won't be doing any comparisons between lenses directly, I've done it before and I received extremely negative feedback. However 12mm and 17mm are fundamentally different lenses, and surely the way the lenses were constructed optically were also different. I don't think it is fair to do such comparison.
I agree- each lens is magical in it’s uniqueness... how I use a wide lens = tell a story.. show more environment in shot - also great for pix inside apartments or confined areas where I cannot step back much ..also SUPER for building shots ...you can fit sooooo much in an environment shot. The barrel distortion or aberation , the sharpness or softness... they are like different brushes for a painter. There is no ONE superior to another... there are just personal preferences and styles of photography
thank you for the explanations about the lens.
if I may know where is the address of the apartment in the photo
It is one of the PPR flats in KL. They all pretty much look almost the same.
@@robinwong what is the meaning of PPR Robin?.
and where is the exact address?.
yeah, because the pattern is good one day if I go to KL I want to take pictures there .
what's the sharpest aperture for this? f5.6?
With the new iPhones and what a lot of Android smartphones are doing, I’m guessing that wide angle shots will be thé look of 2020. Which Micro Four Thirds lens do you recommend for that 13mm-like look? Love the videos, thanks for considering an answer.
Does Olympus 12mm f/2 has the least distortion compare with the other pro zoom lenses @12mm ? I'm looking for most rectilinear lens I can find at 12mm.
In my tests all of the lenses show zero distortion due to software correction. To me that's good enough
@@robinwong You could see that if you'd use the raw files in something like RawTherapee, without lens correction (which is also possible, but you first have to enable it). Olympus Viewer and the newer Workspace automatically correct everything, that's right...
@@wolfganglonien2093 nice to see you here! Long time no see!
@@robinwong Likewise my friend :) And I'm still using Olympus cameras, like you. Planning to visit Malaysia next year, maybe we can meet (got relatives near Shah Alam)?
@@wolfganglonien2093 please do shoot me an email when you are coming. We must meet!
Robin, I'm just curious, how much is the Olympus OMD EM1 mk ii in Malaysia? Olympus is no longer being sold that much here in the Philippines due to poor support. Sorry if the question is not related to the 12mm f2 lens. Thanks.
I think it is about RM7000 new, but depending on available promotion or sale.
Thanks Robin
Hi Robin. Thanks for your work. It world be nice if you could compare de 12 mm olympus with the 15 mm panaleica. I know you’re olympus visionarry... But in the end they are both m4/3 lenses!
I don't think it is fair to compare 12mm to 15mm, as they are both very different lenses. Comparing 12mm f2 to 12mm F1.4 would make much mroe sense. 15mm is just too big of a difference in terms of angle of view/coverage.
Too bad that you didn't try shooting the Milky Way with this lens. I'm considering it as compared to Panasonic 12mm f/1.4 for astrophotography. What lens do you recommend for shooting the Milky Way?
Why would I want to try to shoot the Milky Way? And why is that a bad thing that I didn't try?
@@robinwong coz I think it's a good lens for shooting stars and want to see the results.
@@MrSamsonSiu I don't shoot the stars. I am sure other photographers do that.
The 12mm is good lens for milky way, but I am using the Laowa 7.5mm more for that because the 12mm is pretty tight in most cases.
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