Panasonic Leica 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 Full Review | Sample Photo and Video | GH5 & GX85 | mft M43 |

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Leica 1260
0:00 overview
0:30 Image quality
1:15 zoom range
2:12 Aperture & Bokeh
2:53 minimal focusing distance
3:49 Portrait yes or no
4:15 lowlight
4:50 vs Lumix 12-60, parfocal, stabilization
5:34 autofocus & manual focus
6:44 pricing
7:26 conclusion: Pros and cons
8:40 signing off
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| Main Video Camera:
GH5 [4k60p, 4k 400Mbps 10bit 422, 1080p 180p, IBIS, m43, flipout screen]
amzn.to/3g6GrS2 (+ kit lens Lumix 12-60mm f3.5-f5.6*)
| Lenses on my GH5
Leica 12-60mm f2.8-4 amzn.to/3dUald1 (fancy all round lens)
Sigma 17-70mm f2.8-f4: amzn.to/2Jm516D
Amazing Bokeh Master:
Samyang 24mm f1.4 Canon Mount: amzn.to/3lszm26 (Can be adapted to E-mount as well as M43)
Sigma 30mm f1.4: amzn.to/3mhtZ4W
Sigma 10-20mm f3.5: amzn.to/3aRgTXG
Lumix 25mm f1.7 amzn.to/3dYRyLg *
|Backup camera, Light weight travel photography cam:
Lumix GX80/GX85
amzn.to/32HKuzE
| Sony Cameras:
Sony A7SII [12MP, fullframe, 4k video, IBIS, lowlight king, 120p FullHD]
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Sony A6300 [APS-C, 4k video, 120p FullHD] www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
| E-Mount Lenses:
Best Budget Fast Standard Zoom
Tamron 28-75mm f2.8
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Zhiyun crane m2
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
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[@AiurMedia]

Here's a bunch of fresh sample photos!(in 3 different "video albums") kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYDEpHmZms14rrM kzbin.info/www/bejne/iauwdpaenrKto7c kzbin.info/www/bejne/gImTpWCXZ9F4aq8

[@AiurMedia]

aperture change: 12mm f2.8 13mm f2.9 15mm f3.0 18mm f3.2 24mm f3.5 27mm f3.6 32mm f3.8 36mm f3.9 52mm f4.0

[@AiurMedia]

by default the focus ring is non-linear, which is way it reacts to the speed of you turning the ring, with G9 latest firmware you can set the focus ring to linear, basically you will get 10-25mm f1.7 lens level repeatable manual focus, you can choose the amount of travel you want for the focus ring, 90 degree to 1800 degree, really makes a big difference in manual focus experience.

[@AiurMedia]

update: recently i discovered that the photo editing software I've been using On1 RAW has been ruining all my photos, everything out of that software is hazy and mushy, as if placed a dirty filter, after purchasing GH6 i've switched back to lightroom and the images out of it are day and night, clear, clean, sharp, full of detail and vibrance, the tele end softness of this lens was partially due to the terrible On1 Raw editing software, in recent experience the tele end of leica 12-60 is quite decent, stopping down to f5.6 definitely sharpen it up a lot but wide open is not as bad as I stated in this video.

[@Philbill96]

I was looking all over the internet to figure whether this lens would fit my gx85, you saved my day bro. Thanks for your honest review. Love the vid!

[@AiurMedia]

thank you! when you look for lenses just look for the mount, for gx85 or any panasonic m43 cameras it's m43 mount, olympus and panasonic both make the same mount for m43 cameras.

[@AiurMedia]

somehow a lot of footage from copenhagen suffered from frame drop i dont know why : ( the video from copenhagen was originally in 60fps maybe that's why it drops frames Here's my coppenhagen vlog playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIvQnZ6FYrZ5prs

[@Komaticom]

Saw this pop up on Reddit's M43 sub. Great review. The Leica 12-60 is my go-to lens for travelling for its versatile range; struggles at night but that's kind of expected with 2.8. Haven't seen softness at 40mm+ on my lens so it seems to be a manufacturing fault.

[@AiurMedia]

thank you ! yeah it's nice to know that leica make the lens sharp throughout the range, makes me happy even though my copy is bad haha

Gracias. :)

[@AiurMedia]

in my parfocal section I showed a footage of zooming with autofocus.. unfortunately up till this point Lumix cameras and lenses cannot autofocus while zooming in and out and it tries to find focus again during zooming which ruins the "parfocalness". The best way to utilize parfocal is manual focusing in which mode the focus stays where it is the whole time.

[@2kime]

Hello, firmware 1.4 oct 2023 took care of AF when zoom. Firmware 1.2 took care of the focusring controle, its linear now. Pls check, Frans/Bali

[@twojevideo-filmowanie]

How would you rate the sharpness and image quality of Leica 12-60mm vs Sigma 17-70mm?