Denny Smith wrote:Yannick, what 4/3rds adapter are you using 14-50? I have the same lens, PL 14-30 f/2.8-3.5 Zoom lens and tested the new FW 6.6 with it and the PL 4/3, 25mm D lens, both are better with 6.6. I am using the Panasonic 4/3 (FT) to MFT auto adapter, no issues. I tested the lens with both beta versions of 6.6, with an improved performance on the newer version. I tested iris, manual and AF features on the older Four Thirds (4/3) lenses and compared them to the newer PL 12-60 zoom, and PL Primes. The slowest focusing one of the lot, was the PL 25mm MFT DG lens, the original FT D version was quieter and smoother on AF.
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I use the same Panasonic adapter. It works perfectly on my GX80, with those lenses.
the FT 14-50 2.5-3.5 indeed focusses with fw6.6 (before not at all), but it gets off focus often, and often it focusses towards macro, even when it hit focus near infinity briefly. Then it sits there waiting, blurry, but manual focus does work quickly. I get this behaviour when focus is more towards infinity than it should be. If the lens has to focus from near to far, it locks on much better.
the FT 14-150 f3.5-5.6 worked very well on the previous fw, now it still focusses decently, but I completely loose manual control after pressing AF. So, when it does miss AF, I cannot correct manually and have to power down the camera. So this is far worse performance, and makes AF unuseable on a shoot.
I just wish a new firmware could block the AF button, and AE as well. Reassigning would be even better. They lie so conviently under the thumb. When I feel in the dark for the magnification button, I sometimes hit AF (they are both second from the top !!!). With the 14-150m I am then stuck ...