EM10 mkii and Pergear 25mm f1.7 is an AWESOME Combo!

EM10 mkii and Pergear 25mm f1.7 is an AWESOME Combo!
For the past few weeks I've been using the Olympus EM10 mkii with the Pergear 25mm f1.7 and I think it's a great combo.
The Pergear 25mm f1.7 is the first Pergear lens I've used and it's proven itself to be another great third party manual prime lens for apsc and micro four thirds.
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[@Hannemanneke]

Interesting David! Thanks for sharing 😀👍

[@ValeHow-de5ts]

Long waited new video! As always, super useful review - cheers, David 😊

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

Hey thanks for watching. As you might have figured from the intro, I intended for this to be ready much sooner 😂

[@ValeHow-de5ts]

​I love it! We are all just a humans. Thank you for your work and time and things we can learn from you 😊

[@jacquesnel8384]

Ive got the Pergear 25mm F1.8 got it two years ago on recommendation from Angry Photographer. Focus throw on the F1.8 is no problem at all. Thats is such a good value for money lens! Love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

I think I made it sound like more of an issue than it actually is. I’d prefer it to be longer, but it’s a fantastic little lens. It just gets a bit tricky with moving subjects even stopped down to f4-5.6 where I was mostly shooting. I’d say it’s more of a quirk to get used to rather than an issue 🖖

[@ElectronInc]

OMG! Just when I was thinking of checking what manual lens to play with my e-m10 mkII for street photography, you drop this video. Are you reading my mind??? 🤣

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

I may or may not be a clairvoyant but for now I’ll just stick with the photography nerd title 😂

[@alangamble3236]

@electronic I coupled the TTArtisan f2 25 mm lens with my em10 mkii which I find to be a nice balance combo.

[@ElectronInc]

@@alangamble3236 Thanks! I saw this TTArtisan f2 25 mm lens is £69 new in the UK. I'll keep an eye on the used market.

[@ulfjonsson2122]

Beautiful images

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

Very kind. Thank you 🖖

[@Grainy17]

I was looking at this lens for my Fuji body and couldn't find much about it, now I know it's worth it's very small price! Cheers David.

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

The performance might be different on apsc, but from my use of the m4/3 copy, it’s well worth the small price tag 🖖

[@Grainy17]

@@DavidFlowerOfficial I love them little Manual lenses, ATM I'm having fun with the ttartisan 50mm, 35mm and 23mm and they perform superb so I can't imagine the pergear been much different with a aps-c body.

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

I used the ttartisan trio on Sony apsc and they were very good. It’s great to see third party options that are worth considering 🖖

[@GrumpyTim]

Coo there's another new lens manufacturer/brand that I haven't heard of - looks interesting and pretty good David. love the shots of the moors and the NYMR is looking fab. I'm half tempted to get one of those so I can take it apart - the focusing might just be something rubbing, but it would be a bit of a shame if inside the metal exterior was a crude plastic focusing helicoid. That's quite a severe colour shift at f22, but maybe most people won't even use the lens at f22 - I generally try to avoid the smallest apertures so it probably wouldn't be an issue for me at all.

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

Yeah I’d hope the scratchy focus is just my copy, but it hasn’t really affected my use of it. That shift at f22 is something I’d have never noticed had it not been for the test. I’d never normally use any lens closed right down because of defraction, and certainly not on m4/3 since I usually only go to around f8 at the extreme. Thanks for watching, mate🖖

[@GrumpyTim]

I'm much the same, but occasionally I have to remind myself after I've tested a lens, that I'll never use f22, so it doesn't matter how it performs.

[@GrumpyTim]

Oooh I forgot to say, nice little Sony point and shoot......

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

@@GrumpyTim Aye it’s lovely. Some very nice KZbin fella kindly sent it to me… Lumpyjim or something 😂

[@LadyBovine]

Weird they made the focus ring so scratchy on this, because the focus ring on the previous noclicked f1.8 version is smooth as buttered velvet edit: though I suspect copy variation applies

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

Yeah it’s quite possibly just my copy and the scratchy part isn’t super noticeable once you’re using it, I only mentioned it because I noticed it almost immediately but it doesn’t affect performance, the focus throw too I suspect is something that I’d get to grips with the more I use it. The lens is a great performer optically so I don’t think those things would put me off using it🖖

[@LadyBovine]

@@DavidFlowerOfficial Roughly how many degrees rotation are we talking btw?(maybe you said and I missed it)

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

@LadyBovine I’d say it’s approximately 90 degrees at most with a 20cm/8inch minimum focus distance.

[@disjenmgn]

Who uses F22 in practice?????

[@DavidFlowerOfficial]

On m4/3 I’d expect no-one, but it was something I thought was worth mentioning

[@Timat-s4n]

Looks just like the 7Artisans 25 1.7 I used for a while a year or two ago. It was pretty good too BUT the DOF, Focus scale, AND aperture scale were ALL fake, totally inaccurate, so mostly useless for hyperfocal focus use so I returned it. I'm guessing this lens and all of these cheaper Chinese lenses have the same problem although they're obviously good value otherwise.