Panasonic LUMIX 42.5mm f1.7 Prime Lens Review - H-HS043E

Panasonic LUMIX 42.5mm F1.7 Prime OIS Lens Review. All of the footage was shot using a Panasonic LUMIX GH6 and the 42.5mm f1.7 prime lens. The model of this 42.5 lens is the H-HS043E, and it will give you the classic 85mm field of view equivalent in full frame terms.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 - About this Video (not sponsored)
00:34 - Focal Length and Aperture Explained
02:14 - Sharpness (real-world tests)
02:30 - Minimum Focus Distance
02:47 - Handling & Features
03:37 - MEGA O.I.S Stabilization
04:10 - Background Blur & Bokeh
04:44 - Video Autofocus Performance & Focus Breathing
05:44 - Why I Purchased This Lens
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[@williamburkholder769]

This is a great little lens. I bought mine used, too. It's great for portraits and interviews, products, street work, and travel. Best of all, it is TINY and SHARP. Along with the 15mm f/1.7 Leica, it is a no-brainer prime for m43.

[@abeschwartz1169]

Olympus 17 1.8 is a nice one to pair with as well

[@artistjoh]

The close focus ability makes this a winner, and O.I.S. is the icing on the cake.

[@jupiterman7]

i bought one used a couple of months ago and love it its just so small!!!! the pictures and video never do it justice on the size of this lens great video thanks!

[@nickgrebneff7137]

Yes have this one and it's a brilliant little lens so small light and inexpensive for what it can do. Great results. Awesome for travelling. Another great video Shane!

[@whitehorseflyer]

Mine arrives in a few days, great to find this review.

[@OzzieTech]

Ill have add this to my collection one day

[@rhyannon3155]

Beach life looks good ❤

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

I can't believe I missed the seal on camera! 🦭

[@neerajjaswal5991]

Thank you Shane for this great video🙏.

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

Thank you :)

[@neerajjaswal5991]

@@GeekyNerdyTechy 🙏

[@geranimoek7410]

I use this lens for portrait photography and documentary shoots. It works perfect with GH6 and GH5S. It has a power OIS system. Lumix f1.7 25MM, Lumix 1.7 42,5MM and Sigma f1.4 16MM are the most compatiple primes lenses for Lumix cameras.

[@joestrahl6980]

Hi Shane, this was the first lens I bought after buying my first camera with the kit lens. Always brings a smile when I use it so light and bright. You mentioned that the filter is only 37mm but I can tell you that there are 37mm ND and CPL filters. Also, I bought a close-up filter at 37mm and before I had a dedicated macro lens (the Olympus 60) with the close-up filter screwed on you almost get 1:1 and with f1.7 this is very bright compared with most true macro lenses. But of course a razor razor thin focus plane as a result.

[@toddflowers8052]

Thank you Shane !

[@ablemediaproductions]

Great review Shane, seems like an awsome lens to use for interviews and I'm sure the AF would be fairly good on the G9II.

[@markwiemels]

Was actually a really beautiful setting, and conditions, for making a video. It was better than the park ;-)

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

Thanks, Mark. I used to live right over the road from this beach. I used to shoot too many videos at the beach, then it changed to too many videos at the park 😂

[@georgedavall9449]

A lot of great comments in here! This is a great Community/ following You Have! 👍✌📷

[@KallusGarnet]

This is the best M43 lens hands down thanks for the review.

[@kudobeats]

Great vid as usual Shane. Since you've tested a lot of lenses, apart from the 12-35, what is the best autofocus on a lumix lens you have used?

[@markielinhart]

Great vid as ever Shane. One thought is to buy step up/step down adaptors for your ND filters to match lens dias. They’re pretty cheap…✌️🌻

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

Thanks for the tip. 😊 I have a set but they don’t go down to 37mm sadly. I’ll see what I can find online

[@brysimm404]

100% right, Shane 👍

[@michelesiniscalchi8695]

hi! I had it, fantastic, tiny, light, with astounding quality, in fact, doing tests with the Leica 42.5 f1.2 I thought it had a much better price-performance ratio. Only in front of the olympus pro f1.2 I gave up ... That is truly unsurpassed :D

[@MichaelGerrard]

I would like to get this lens but I already have the fab Oly 45 f1.8. I think the Lumix is a tad better because you have IS and a closer focussing distance.

[@freddiecauseyii9419]

It’s super sharp and the auto focus is very catchy with my gh5 settings.

[@Tim-Miller-]

I'm considering getting this for a studio...what do you mean by catchy? Id like to take advantage of auto focus with good lighting in a podcast environment. Thx!

[@freddiecauseyii9419]

@@Tim-Miller- The Lens is much faster at getting focus than other micro 4/3’s lenses say like the 25 mm F1.7 ( the nifty fifty)

[@laurentyarp514]

I had this lens, bought it second hand for about the same price. Unfortunately it has a lot of purple fringing in low light and I decided to replace it with the Olympus 45mm f1.8. It was a decisions I regret doing because the Olympus is not focusing close enough (I knew it was 50cm but didn't realize how far it would be compared to the Panasonic). I will get a 42.5mm as soon as I have the opportunity. I am very often thinking about that lens. I really enjoyed using it despite the issue I mentionned above.

[@tobiasdavid3096]

I love the lens. I think it was my first prime. I did have some color fringing. But I use it a lot and it makes it hard for me to justify a PL 42.5 1.2 or the Olympus 45 1.2

[@Thirdbornentertainment]

How do you turn on the ios for the lens, or is it done in the camera menus under the image stabilizer? I just set it to the basic stabilization in the menu

[@gabrielbarros09]

which lens for filming do you advise me to buy for my G7, between Lumix G 42.5mm F1.7 or 50mm?

[@georgedavall9449]

Awesome Video Mate! Good lens, but the Olympus 45 f1.8 is a stellar lens. It has the ridiculous small filter size as well. Cheers

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

Thanks, George! :)

[@georgedavall9449]

@@GeekyNerdyTechy You're Welcome! I appreciate the reply, and I realized I was not a SUBscriber, after watching a lot of your Videos. Well, I fixed that. Count me in! 😊

[@KimiJnrTusitala]

Great review Shane, would you recommend getting this lens over the Olympus 45mm 1.8? I shoot with a Panasonic G7.

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

The Olympus is supposed to be great, but I only tried it briefly once in a shop. The cool thing about this lens is the optical image stabilisation.

[@cathyharrity8050]

Where you using the S5ii with the lens? Great photography Shane 👌

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

The GH6 - This is for Micro Four Thirds

[@LifesAwkward]

Wow this looks amazing, would this lens fit on my lumix g7?

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

It will work on a g7 it has the same mount. Yep 👍

[@jasonsproates9507]

Had this lens for years its my favourite by far! One issue i've just recently ran into though, When using the dji focus motor it very quickly runs out of grip as for the infinite focus wheel on the lens, paired with gradual fall off of sensitivity the more you twist it in one go. Anyone got any recommendations on a work around for this?

[@jasonsproates9507]

I've just learnt about seamless grips... maybe this is my answer aha.

[@hr7936]

Can you please recommend me one lens that I can use for both filming workout full body in a small room and filming fixing small objects where only my hands and the objects will be shown.

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

The 12-35mm F2.8 is a safe bet and it's very versatile. If you are looking for a prime lens, check some reviews (or my videos) on the 9mm f1.7 and 15mm f1.7 prime lenses.

[@ilivecreations664]

Thanks for the review. Can the f stop be changing

[@richardshepherd8190]

Yes, in - camera

[@keirwatson3570]

I do a lot of portrait and product (plant/nature) shots. This was my first prime after moving to m43. I have yet to find any lens to beat it. I compared it to the olympus 12-40 f2.8 pro and for 90% of the shots you couldn’t tell them apart. But the 42.5 is a fraction of the cost and weight. The olympus went back.

[@RhettThompsonFilm]

Curious thing on this lens, you actually lose maybe 1/3 or 2/3 of a stop of light at the absolute minimum focus distance. Never really bothered me but interesting.

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

I didn't know/notice that. Thanks for the heads up. Man, it can focus closely.

[@okpeividz1788]

Plis review RGBlink Mini Mx . Liv streaming. 🎉

[@ravebrave8866]

I have plans to buy this lens.. but firstly should I buy the 25mm or 42.5mm

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

This is a great lens but the 25mm is more usable. I would say this 42.5 is more of a speciality lens.

[@ravebrave8866]

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Thank you I will buy the 25mm, at present I have 14 42mm lens.

[@Stephen.Bingham]

A minor slip I think - the light gathering ability of a 42,5mm f/1.7 lens on a MFT camera is the same as a 85mm f/3.4 lens on a Full Frame camera. Basically, for a given field of view, the light entering the camera is determined by the physical size of the aperture and 42.5/1.7 = 85/3.4.

[@GeekyNerdyTechy]

That's incorrect. F1.7 is F1.7 - the look is 3.4. It's only the depth of field that will change, not the light. There's a lot of wrong information on this. I can set up both a full frame camera and MF4 with exactly the same settings in my studio and the f-stop and iso will be identical.

[@RedFrameTech]

Shane is right. And you said it yourself; aperture is a physical measurement. So f1.7 on mft is f1.7 on ff. The difference lies in the depth of field at a given aperture and distance from the lens.

[@kayodeolaosebikan7462]

F1.7 is f1.7, the same amount of light but FF usually is brighter because the individual pixel in the sensor is usually bigger than that of MFT. However 42.5mm MFT would give 85mm equipment field of view of FF.

[@Stephen.Bingham]

@@GeekyNerdyTechy You are talking about "light" in the sense of light intensity (light power per unit area). I am talking about simply total light power entering the camera. It is the total light power entering the camera that determines the image noise. It is obviously the case that f-stop determines exposure - and this doesn't change with focal length or sensor size (That's why f-stop is useful). However, exposure is determined by light intensity at the sensor, not the total light power. Since a MFT sensor is roughly a 1/4 of the area of a full frame sensor the total light power used to create the image is 4 times smaller when the f-stop is the same. This is why for a given iso image noise is roughly two-stops worse on the smaller sensor for a given sensor technology. I hope that helped. I'm a professional research physicist, by the way. I've been employed by several governments around the world to design and build fancy optical instruments.

[@Stephen.Bingham]

​@@RedFrameTech I am using "aperture size" to refer to the physical size of the hole - measured in square mm, for example. f-stop is not the same as aperture size. For example a 300mm f/8 lens and a 30mm f/0.8 lens have the same aperture size, but obviously not the same f-stop.

[@kayodeolaosebikan7462]

That lens is so tiny & light weight that i find it hard to call it a lens. Very great lens with surprising have stabilization

[@GrenlandUnderVann]

All Panasonic lenses with FOV > 25 mm has traditionally been equiped with OIS. The only exception is that Leica 25-50mm which I guess is viewed as a "cine lens".

[@kayodeolaosebikan7462]

@@GrenlandUnderVann Not true! 25mm f1.7 does not have OIS

[@GrenlandUnderVann]

@@kayodeolaosebikan7462 Read my words "FOV greater than 25 mm".

[@GrenlandUnderVann]

You must wonder why this is not a "Leica" lens, perhaps just because of the Leica f1.2 lens.

[@OzzieTech]

First