[Leica] Nathan's PAD 18/2/2019: testing a new lens

[Nathan Wajsman]

I do not buy much new photo equipment these days—the stuff I have is good enough. But this week, on the suggestion of Moose on the Oly list, I picked up a 12-32mm lens for my Panasonic GF1. On an MFT camera this range is equivalent to 24–64mm, very useful  in a tiny package—this may well replace the Ricoh GRII as my cycling camera (the Ricoh is still the choice when pocketability and/or high ISO capability are needed). The lens arrived on Monday, and I have been shooting with it this week to test it in various circumstances.  It has been a busy week at work, so I have not had much time to go out to photograph, and had to do most of my testing at the office.

This was the very first image on Monday:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CzThMJL/A
Every company I have worked for since 1987, including the office where I work now, has had a “clean desk policy”. In every place I have heartily ignored this policy, and I continue to do so. In my view, cleaning one’s desk ranks right up there with washing one’s car as a total waste of time.

I then set out to look for more interesting subjects, so I prowled the floor looking for victims. Many people were at lunch but our Greek colleague Eri was at her desk:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8927XVS/A

And this one of our cafeteria terrace, actually taken on Wednesday, is a good test of the distortions of the lens—not too much, albeit this is with the lens set at 17mm, so not at the extreme wide end:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t936CK6/A

Cheers,
Nathan


Nathan Wajsman

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