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The Best Panasonic Lenses for Beginners Under $700 for Full Frame Cameras

Chris Gampat
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08/30/2022
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There are so many of you reaching for Panasonic cameras these days. Congratulations! You’re taking the first steps to being an incredibly hybrid multi-media shooter. And if you’re looking for better lenses, then we’ve got a round up you’ll love. We’ve tested the best Panasonic lenses for beginners. What’s more, they’re under a certain amount and these are all full-frame.

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How We Chose the Best Panasonic Lenses for Beginners

Here’s some insight into our selection process around Panasonic lenses for beginners:

  • Our Editorial Policies don’t allow us to talk about products we haven’t reviewed. Luckily, we’ve tested pretty much very Panasonic Lumix S lens. Lumix S stands for full-frame lenses.
  • The best Panasonic lenses for beginners are all weather resistant, and that’s super important. It keeps your sensor from getting dirty and prolongs reliability.
  • Two of these lenses are primes, or fixed focal-lengths. They’ll create some of the most beautiful photos available to the camera system.
  • The kit lens is okay, we’re not going to lie. But, once you use Panasonic’s primes, you won’t want to go back.
  • Overall, these truly are the best Panasonic lenses for beginners using the L mount system. We’ve used them all, so you can trust us!
  • No, these L-mount lenses won’t fit onto Micro Four Thirds cameras made by Panasonic.

Panasonic 50mm f1.8 Lumix S

Pros

  • Beautiful image quality
  • Fast focus to get the first target
  • Weather sealing
  • Small size
  • Lightweight
  • Incredibly affordable for what it is

Cons

  • I wish it were metal.
  • Not so fantastic and reliable autofocus tracking, but good for one shot. When it hits, it nails it

In our review we state:

“The Panasonic 50mm f1.8 S is an incredible lens. It’s affordable, focuses quickly, has great image quality, is weather sealed, lightweight, and handy. Panasonic has taken the nifty 50 and stepped it up. The rest of the industry should recognize this.”

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Panasonic 20-60mm f3.5-5.6

Pros

  • Lightweight
  • Nice colors
  • Fast to focus
  • Fun to use
  • Weather sealed

Cons

  • Odd focal lengths, but I appreciate that they’re trying something new.

In our review, we state:

“This lens is moderately sharp when compared to other lenses. But overall, it’s still quite sharp. I didn’t test it on the S1R, so I can’t tell how sharp it is on higher resolution sensors. But on the 24 Megapixel sensors, it’s awe-inspiring.

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Panasonic 85mm f1.8 Lumix S Pro

Pros

Cons

  • Very clinical image quality

In our review, we state:

“The Panasonic 85mm f1.8 is a fantastic lens for the L-mount and exactly what it needed. It’s lightweight, weather-sealed, fast to focus, and delivers solid image quality. It’s also incredibly affordable, but a bit clinical for my personal taste.”

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The Phoblographer’s various product round-up features are done in-house. Our philosophy is simple: you wouldn’t get a Wagyu beef steak review from a lifelong vegetarian. And you wouldn’t get photography advice from someone who doesn’t touch the product. We only recommend gear we’ve fully reviewed. If you’re wondering why your favorite product didn’t make the cut, there’s a chance it’s on another list. If we haven’t reviewed it, we won’t recommend it. This method keeps our lists packed with industry-leading knowledge. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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