Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH Lens Review

Panasonic Leica DG Summilux f/1.4 ASPH Handling and Features

Those expecting the solid brass workmanship of Leica lenses for their own cameras may be a little misguided. Saying that the build quality is good, with high quality plastics used for much of the lens barrel and a metal lens mount to provide durability through many lens changes. The satin black finish looks very smart and in keeping with the Leica branding, this lens has an orange '25' decal placed on top of the lens barrel.


The advantage of the materials that have been used is that this optic only weighs 200g, which is very lightweight indeed. As a result the lens balances extremely well on the Panasonic G3 body used for testing. The lens accepts 46mm filters via the thread on the front of the lens. The filter thread does not rotate during focusing, which makes this lens ideal of ruse with graduated or polarising filters.

Autofocus is very fast, although care needs to be taken to ensure accurate focusing with a wide aperture lens such as this. Selecting a smaller focusing area can help with this as if too wide a focus area is used, the camera can miss the intended target. The manual focus ring has a pleasant amount of resistance to it, making fine adjustments easy to make.

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