Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount

• Compact and lightweight ultra wide angle prime lens, which delivers high resolution results from corner to corner
• Great choice for hybrid shooters with excellent performance for both stills and video and includes a weather resistant design
• Creative video lens with well suppressed focus breathing, fast and silent linear focus motor as well as linear / non linear MF
• Unified lens design with five models sharing similar weight, balance, filter threads and shooting characteristics
• 9-bladed aperture captures beautiful bokeh and out of focus areas, while the bright aperture is great for low light

Key Features

• Compatible with all L mount cameras including ,  and  
• Great optical performance rendered by special lens elements
• Excellent ultra wide angle for stills and video capture
• Suppressed focus breathing, micro-step aperture control and linear/non linear support
• Unified lens design with a series of high-quality prime  
• Compact, lightweight (340g) and weather resistant structure
• High performance AF delivered by linear focus motor
• 9-blade diaphragm for smooth bokeh and out of focus areas
• Close minimum focus of just 0.18m with 0.2x magnification

Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount Summary

The release of the Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount cameras marks the arrival of the widest  in a series of five high-quality prime optics to date. All of the lenses share similar sizes, filter threads and weight distribution to support high quality video content production. This enables you to share compact 67mm  between lenses, quickly balance  when switching focal lengths and save on common .

The ultra wide angle Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens offers a wide field of view with high resolution images and beautiful smooth out of focus backgrounds from a wide f/1.8 aperture, helping to separate your subject from distractions. It also features high-speed precise AF from a linear motor, well suppressed focus breathing and linear / non-linear settings in MF, for a truly hybrid optic.

At 18mm the Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens is ideal for creating dramatic scale, capturing landscapes, cities, interiors and astro as well as for vlogging and creative video recording.

Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount in More Detail

Beautiful results from corner to corner

A high quality optical design renders high resolution for stills and video, beautiful bokeh and low coma aberration, which is ideal when shooting stars and astro photography. The optical formula is composed of 13 elements arranged in 12 groups, which includes 3 ASPH, 1 UED, 3 ED AND 1 UHR special lens elements.

The 9-bladed aperture diaphragm renders pleasingly smooth out of focus areas and beautiful bokeh balls on this ultra wide lens.

Excellent focus performance

Whether capturing images or videos the Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens delivers high-speed and high-precision AF with L mount cameras. The focus ring supports linear and non linear settings when shooting in MF for added versatility when capturing movies.

Creative lens for video

With such an extensive range of cameras for hybrid shooters and videographers, the Panasonic S 18mm f/1.8 includes a number of video-centric features. These include the ability to make smooth exposure changes through micro-step aperture control, well suppressed focus breathing, which minimises any changes to the angle of view when pulling focus. The inner focus and linear motor mechanism delivers silent AF and allows you to accurately track subjects across the frame. When shooting in MF and linear focus is selected you are able to adjust the rotation angle of the focus ring to suit your shooting style and the lens provides great compatibility with follow focus systems.

Unified prime lens design for high quality video production

This is the fifth prime lens from Panasonic which offers a unified shooting experience when changing lenses, switching filters and mounting your camera on a gimbal such as the  or . With similar weight and balance switching lenses to change focal widths while using a gimbal is simple as the gimbal maintains similar tilt and roll, with no adjustments or rebalancing required.

The four other lenses in the range also offer a 67mm filter thread and similar characteristics:

Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount Sample photos

. Exposure settings: 1/500. f/3.5. ISO 800

. Exposure settings: 1/1600. f/1.8. ISO 250

. Exposure settings: 1/500. f/5. ISO 500

. Exposure settings: 1/5000. f/4. ISO 800

Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount Specifications

Specifications

What’s in the Box

• Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Lens For L Mount
• Lens cap
• Lens rear cap
• Lens hood