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A lot of people obviously don’t agree with the high sales of the Fuji X100 and the drooling for the Sony RX1.

I’ve got an X100 and find 35mm a good compromise.

Years ago when we used something called film a lot of people prefered to use a 35mm rather than 50mm as a standard lens. I did and I think it is quite a nice focal length once you get used to it.

I completely disagree. The 35mm equivalent is the perfect focal length for photographing people (group and travel but not portraits). Wide enough for interior shots, not too wide for exteriors.

It was the focal length I used the most when I had Nikon equipment, and there’s a reason the Fuji X100′s built-in lens is a 35mm equivalent.

I will be ordering one.

35mm equivalent is perfect for street/photojournalism. Well, I do street photography also with Oly 75mm..

Obviously, it depends on the photographer.

I usually shoot very wide or with tele lenses. For street shooting I want a 9 or 10 mm. When shooting with my 35 mm, I do all my street shooting with a 20 mm.

lol I see what you did there

Would be nice, but it seems that they don’t want to make such lenses because they hope that they can bring out soon a body that works fully with the FT-lenses and don’t want to make some competition to these lenses – or they are just to stupid to make some very good mFT-Zooms. They had really enough time since the first mFT cams to make something like a mFT 14-54 3.5-4.0 (or only 4.0), or a mFT 12-60, or 50-200. But if Olympus don’t want to make such lenses, another company will do it and get the money.

Correct. It is the same like all the other primes to me.
Why should I buy and carry 5 lenses when I can use one.
And again the results using primes are not worth the extra effort of money, weight and lense changing.

They’ll come out with a 25mm f2.8 macro just to be different. It’ll be weather sealed and cost 1.5x the pl25. And of course, hood sold separately.

The 12mm f/2 is not exactly world re-known for its sharpness.

And build quality? LOL people, its a consumer item. Stop thinking of lenses like back in the old days, in 10 years time people will not even remember what m4/3 was.

“Dog Slow to focus”?? -Seriously? It’s THAT Bad?? A wee bit Exaggerating, are we?? Wow… Make a lens that’s close to the 20mm, and now it’s a Relic of a lens, no longer the well liked, well adopted, Leader lens of MFT.

Scale?? Look at the size of the 20mm!! Complain, much? With the 20mm, YOU DO get what you paid for! Even though it’s not Metal, it’s still very well built!

Nobody is asking for a $200.00 Lens, but this Olympus lens at this price is a Joke.. Yeah, I said it, A JOKE, Laughable. it’s “Bling” for your camera. you’ll be foolish to buy this over the 20mm at that price. How much faster can it be?

Honestly, it’s your money, do with it what you will. See y’all in a couple years when they announce a Black version and slap an extra $200.00 to the price. Looking forward to reading “Putting my silver 17mm on eBay, Now!”

Maybe more people like silver than black, but those of us who do don’t whine about it because we get what we want. These silver lenses are works of art. Silver lenses will reflect more light than black lenses, keeping the sensor cooler on hot days and possibly improving noise. I get that a small segement of street shooters think black lenses look more low-profile, but (with the possible exception of the Oly 75) these lenses are so small, and because they look so little like DSLR lenses, I’ve never had anyone say a word to me about them. Quit worrying about what your camera looks like and start worrying about what your pictures look like. If you’re that concerned about it and really want generic black lenses there are plenty to choose from.

“Tiny dof”
Cool, that’s all we wanted

Banding issue? That is really only an issue for some situations when using high iso levels. There are however a few other issues, such as the relatively slow and noisy AF and it sometimes triggering a never-ending fucus hunting loop.

Despite this the 20/1.7 is a really good lens.