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LUMIX Special Features
*Figures in parentheses are 35mm camera equivalent values.
The angle of view is the area of the image captured by the image sensor, expressed as an angle. The larger the angle of view, the shorter the focal length. The smaller the angle of view, the longer the focal length. A lens with a short focal length and a large angle of view is called a wide-angle lens. A lens with a long focal length and a small angle of view is called a telephoto lens. In the LUMIX G Micro System, the diagonal dimension of the image sensor has been downsized to half that of a 35mm film frame, so the focal length is twice as long when converted to that of a 35mm camera. For example, the angle of view for a LUMIX G 25mm lens is 47º, which is the same as the angle of view for a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera.
•Micro Four Thirds™ and the Micro Four Thirds logo mark are trademarks or registered trademarks of Olympus Imaging Corporation, in Japan, the United States, the European Union and other countries.
Lens brightness is determined by the focal length and effective lens diameter. If you divide the focal length by the effective lens diameter, you get a value called the F-number. The smaller the F-number, the brighter the lens (the larger the aperture). A bright lens has several key advantages. For example, a brighter lens lets you use a faster shutter speed, so you can get clear, blur-free shots even in dim lighting. It also lets you give the background a soft focus.
Depth of field is the range of object distances (in the depth direction) within which objects have acceptable sharpness. A long focal length (telephoto lens) or small F-number (bright lens) makes the depth of field shallower. A short focal length (wide-angle lens) or large F-number (dark lens) makes the depth of field greater. With a shallow depth of field, it's easier to take pictures in which the background is intentionally given a soft focus, thus emphasizing the sharp subject focus. With a large depth of field, you can keep objects in the foreground and objects in the background all in focus (for a pan-focus effect).
* Figures in parentheses are 35mm camera equivalent values.
Perspective refers to the relationship between nearby and distant objects. A wide-angle lens makes objects close to the lens appear larger and faraway objects smaller. This emphasizes the distance (depth) between nearby and distant objects, making the background appear farther away and expansive. A telephoto lens, on the other hand, compresses the perspective, thus deemphasizing the distance between objects in the foreground and objects in the background.
The magnification ratio is a numerical value that indicates the size difference between the actual size of an object and the size of that object captured on the image sensor. For example, if a 10-mm object is captured in a 5-mm size on the image sensor through a lens, that lens has a magnification ratio of 0.5x. If the object is captured in a 10-mm size, the lens has a magnification ratio of 1.0x, which is also referred to as "1:1."
* The maximum image magnification of a Micro Four Thirds System lens can be converted into the maximum image magnification of a 35mm camera lens by multiplying "the indicated maximum image magnification x 2."
MTF stands for Modulation Transfer Function. It's one of the indexes used to describe lens performance. The MTF is a numerical value that indicates how accurately a lens can reproduce the contrast of an object. The vertical axis of the graph shows contrast reproducibility (%), while the horizontal axis indicates the distance (mm) from the image center. The image quality is evaluated in the sagittal direction "S" (parallel to the radius of the image circle) and in the meridional direction "M" (radial direction) using two frequencies (high frequency:40 lines/mm, low frequency: 20 lines/mm). The solid lines represent sagittal measurements, and the dotted lines indicate meridional measurements. The higher up (100%) the graph, the better the image rendering capability of the lens. The higher the measurements with the low frequency, the higher the contrast reproduction capability. The higher the measurements with the high frequency, the higher the resolving power.
Focal length
The smaller the focal length, the wider the angle of view (wide angle). The larger the focal length, the smaller the angle of view (telephoto). The number on the left is the focal length at the wide-angle setting, and the number on the right is the focal length at the telephoto setting.
F-number
The smaller the F-number, the brighter the lens. The number on the left is the F-number for the fully opened aperture at the wide-angle setting, and the number on the right is the F-number for the fully opened aperture at the telephoto setting. (The F-number takes an intermediate value while zooming.)
Aspherical lens
"ASPH." means that the lens includes one or more aspherical lenses.
Hand-shake compensation
"MEGA O.I.S." indicates that the lens is equipped with an optical image stabilizer for hand-shake compensation. "POWER O.I.S." features twice the shake suppression capability of MEGA O.I.S. to further strengthen the correction of low-frequency hand-shake vibration.
Power Zoom
"PZ" means that the lens is equipped with an electric-powered zoom.
LEICA lens
"LEICA DG" means that this LEICA lens was designed and developed to optimize the characteristics of LUMIX G Digital Single Lens Mirrorless (DSLM) cameras.
Leica's line of lenses
SUMMILUX and ELMARIT, hallmarks of Leica's fine line of lenses, are registered trademarks of Leica Camera AG.
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