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I've been keeping my eye out lately for graffiti that can be found around Frankfurt and I'm quite impressed with what some of these people can produce. So off I went on my bike with a Sony A7r and the Sony DT 55-200 f4-5.6 lens mounted on an adaptor. It's actually quite good, I didn't think that this cheap lens could produce anything of this caliber. It's not small of course, but it is manageable but no stabilisation which could be a problem when using the long end in low light. I'll post a few images during the next few days to show what it can actually produce. A bit of a waste on the A7r but I wanted to try it out anyway.

OK, distortion is a little problem with the lens but use it on a Panasonic body and I don't think you would have a problem. All corrections are done in-body by the software. I believe I've said this before but I'm still having problems with a magenta cast within my Panasonic images. When I first develop them, I don't see it at all, it's only when I come back to the images after a couple of days that I see the cast and I rework the images a second time. I've asked it before but I'll ask again, does someone out there suffer from the same problem. It only happens with my Panasonic cameras.

I'mliking what Panasonic have been bringing out in their lens selection for some time now. I also have their 45-150 f4-5.6 OIS which I got a very good price on (not that it's expensive to start with) and I just couldn't pass on it. There's not a lot of difference in image quality between these two lenses except the 14-140 has of course a greater range. Anyone looking for a very good cheap lens they could do worse than the 45-150 f4-5.6.

While I had this lens I tried it out on the Olympus E-M1 and took it downtown for a test run on a very murky and grey day. Not the best time to do this but I had little choice in the matter. Too many other things to do and places to be. Looking through the images that I didn't delete, they'rew actually quite sharp and contrasty. if it wasn't for the focusing issues I was having with this lens I would have been happy with it. For those that missed my posts about this lens, the problem was inconsistent and inaccurate focusing. I just couldn't trust that the lens had actually locked focus where I wanted it to focus. Sometimes it would show focus lock, but looking at the image on my monitor it was soft, blurry, or generally just out of focus. I just didn't see this when looking through the EVF, and that's the reason I sent it back for a full refund.

Justa nother pretty boring image from this combination. I just love the way this system renders the colours.

Anyone looking for a cheap relative wideish lens for the X system, this lens is really a no brainer because image quality is quite acceptable and the lens is cheap. No excuse for not owning this lens.

Last image from this combination for the time being. This is the ferry over the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Focus isn't the fastest on the older Fujifilm models but it's quick enough for this type of image. Focusing is also accurate, which is really important to me.