Designed with the user in mind and weighing just 355g and 82mm in length, this 85mm is a lens that can live on your S-series without being a burden to carry around all day. The large manual focus ring can be easily identified and reduce the need to look away from the viewfinder when shooting.
The 85mm contains a number of special lens elements (2 ED elements) to ensure image quality throughout the frame. Details are rendered sharply while chromatic aberration, false colors, vignetting and corner dropouts are minimized.
The optical design of the lens minimizes focus breathing, allows for smooth exposure changes, and reduces image shift when zooming making this lens ideal for video and still photography.
Thanks to the 9 aperture and circular aperture blades it means that the background areas of your image will be well out of focus to make your main subject stand out, giving you maximum control of those out of focus areas within your image.
The focus motors inside the lens are designed to provide quiet operation so you can shoot without disturbing the subject without compromising focusing speed. The lens has the ability to provide focus control by being able to shift focus elements up to 240 frames per second, to ensure you get that first shot in focus.
The lens is designed to work when you need it and is designed to protect internal elements from sand and rain, giving you the confidence to shoot in some of the toughest conditions, even down to -10 degrees Celsius. The resistance to dust and splashes does not guarantee that damage will not occur if the lens is subjected to direct contact with dust and water.
85mm is fully compatible with In-body image stabilization, which can offer over 5 stops of compensation with the full range of LUMIX S-series cameras, and is compatible with cameras from L-mount alliance partners.
