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Jono1
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how odd... I'm intrigued to know if you find out the answerHmmmm. How odd...
I bought a G7 recently and it came with a 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 G Vario Mega O.I.S.
I gave it a try out and it looked ok but I didn't look too closely... Fast forward a bit and I took my GF and my mam for a day out at Butterfly World and I took my GX7 with the tiny little 14-42mm attached. I usually shoot in aperture priority but as I was shooting inside and the camera would have selected the widest aperture and something like 1/30 second I instead selected shutter priority and dialled in 1/200. The camera still selected the widest possible aperture and the ISO's were middling so I expected decent results but when I looked at them on my pc they looked ok-ish as whole images but once zoomed in it was clear that every single one was soft. I put this down to the lens being a piece of junk but a couple of days ago I stuck it on my G1 and used the pop up flash at a family event and even though the camera shot every shot wide open every single picture is sharp at 100%.
So, how can this be?
I'll have to do some more investigation but at the moment I'm surprised that wide open, 1/200 second and middling ISO's gave utter rubbish on my GX7 but when used with flash on my G1 the results are very good indeed, impressive even for such a small and cheap lens when used wide open.
Any pointers or thoughts before I spend hours testing to find out what's going on?