Hope Is Good, Hope Is Life.
A lot of my thought regarding MFT have come down to one thing.
The Hope cinema lenses that seem so good need some support. The G9II is doing a lot of the work, but to be honest, it is a video camera supporting all the modern needs of a commercial video maker, someone who needs stabilising, AF, good out of camera files and flexibility.
The G9II, S5II and S5 are my cameras for this and when needed, the G9I’s are no slouch (10bit/422/4k is my base line). ProRes HQ is probably my processing limit, my computer killer format, so no real need to look past that from Lumix. Three of the five cams offer that.
Braw would be nice occasionally, for special projects, to please the cinematographer in me and to add a level of professional safety.
.Anyway, back to Hope.
The 25 came today and like the 50, all is good. Sharp corners wide open, a tight mount, beautiful focus throw and nice heft.
I am tending to look at these lenses like stills lenses. All my gear is packed up at the moment, so the Pen F was the unlikely test camera. Nice Bokeh, nice colour.
Corner grab, hand held and obviously manually focussed, but all good.
Close focus is very decent (this is a mini whisk, about 5” long). Also a decent CA and Bokeh torture test.
I now have a more than functional MFT cine lens kit, the 12mm Vision, 25 and 50 Hope and the super fast 24 Nightwalker to match my decently well covered L-mount set (35/50/150).