Panasonic Lumix S Pro 50mm F1.4

Quite sharp. Bright f/1.4 aperture. Minimal distortion. Focus clutch and aperture ring. Dust and splash protection.

Big for a 50mm. Expensive. Aperture ring doesn't de-click. No fluorine coat.

Bottom Line: The Panasonic Lumix S Pro 50mm F1.4 is a standard prime with few flaws, but it's is larger and priced higher than similar lenses for competing systems.

Panasonic set out to make the best 50mm lens that they possibly could for their new S series full-frame camera system, and the new Lumix S Pro 50mm F1.4 certainly doesn't disappoint, being fully deserving of the "reference lens" moniker that it has...

Fabulous image quality ; Fast, virtually silent autofocus system ; Robust build quality

Enormous for a 50mm prime ; Very weighty at almost a kilogram ; Massively expensive for a 50mm f/1.4 lens

Panasonic’s new 50mm f/1.4 L-mount lens for its S-series cameras is a veritable feast of glass and high-end engineering but it’s frankly massive and weighs almost a kilogram. To put that into perspective, it’s more than three times heavier than...