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Has anybody used a 42.5mm lens either the cheapish or fekin expensive versions?

If so I'd appreciate your thoughts on the lens.

I'm off to my sister's wedding and hope this would make a great portrait lens as well as video lens.

I love the MFT format.

I use the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens.  It is an excellent portrait lens.  I've used it for weddings and have had good results.

It's very sharp and I have no complaints at all.  

Example of wedding portrait with my 45mm:

https://flic.kr/p/dwiBYT

Looks like I'm getting a new toy.

Cheers

I too have the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens. They gave it away free when I bought my camera. Seemed pto ‘duplicate’ my zoom, but I forced myself to use it and now really appreciate what it can do. 

But I’ve never been to a wedding. 

To Kai and Jim, have either of you used this lens on a panny body?

If so, did it play nicely?

Cheers

I don't have a Panny body, but my friend does, and all of his Olympus lenses work fine for it.

The only time you are likely to run into issues with cross brand compatibility is with large telephoto lenses with in-lens stabilization.  For Olympus lenses, the stabilization in the lens works in concert with the in body stabilization for the camera.  For Panny bodies and Oly lenses, you have to pick one or the other.  

I  use the Oly 45mm f1.8 with a Panasonic GX80 body and it plays nicely, it does have in body stabilisation though which i believe some earlier Panasonic bodys don't have. Without this you may struggle with handheld shots (Panasonic lenses are typically stabilised whereas Olympus lens don't tend to be). 

The other lens that i really enjoy using is the Oly 25mm f 1.8. Small and compact with a 50mm full frame equvalent focal length that just suits my eye. 

Only with Olympus body I’m afraid. 

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I did look at the above for portraits with mft

I chickened out, and played it safe with a second-hand Panasonic 42.5mm. I also went cheap-ish compared the the Nocticron version. I did not think it was worth the extra £400 just for one stop more of light gathering and a fraction more possible sharpness.

I'm guessing that it would be like splitting hairs on image quality with Panasonic and Olympus so I went like for like.

Thank you chaps your comments were really useful about image quality especially as this lens will be used for wedding portraits.