The Panasonic Leica 15mm f/1.7 lens is one of the first high-end micro four thirds lenses I started using, and I've been in love with it since day one. Let's see some sample photos and hear my thoughts after years of use. Get yours here! http://geni.us/3KtyCz

The gx 85 and the 15mm f1.7 is my favourite camera-lens combo. I took it to Vietnam last winter and got some fantastic shots with it.

Probably the best, most informative video on this lens. Thank you

Had mine for years too. It does colours so well and micro contrast. A great travel and street photography lens. Nice review thanks.

Perfect walk around lens. I like how it’s small and comes with a metal lens hood.

awesome shots dude, ive watched a bunch of videos on this lens and your photographs were the best

What a great video, even its 4 years ago but I might wanna get this Leica 15mm f/1.7 for my G9. Thanks Joseph!

now that is one beautiful lens!
thanks for sharing this with us! loved watching this!

Thanks! I was on the fence about this lens but your review was very helpful!

I just got this lens 2 days ago. Perfect timing!

Fantastic video! Well done. It answered so many questions for me.  Nice to see someone else who has been to Tbilisi Georgia.  I've been there 4 times.  I love that country.

I just got the lens for my system, as I wanted a wide-ish lens with fast aperture and quick focus to be able to capture my two years old son playing. So far, I love it. Your samples taken with the lens are fantastic! I really love your style. I subscribe to see more content 😊

You have beautiful photos sir. Nice work. Want to buy this lens soon to pair it with my Olympus gear!

I love this lens, perfect for street or video. The manual focus is super smooth

Great video and great lens!

Yeah, underrated lens! This is just about the pinnacle of what the MFT system is all about. A quality lens that's very compact. Put it on the GX85, set it next to the premium compact LX100 and you'll have a hard time telling which is which as they have the almost exact same footprint. That's why... despite of what a few people are saying, MFT has a future amongst the APS-C and Fullframe systems. There's so much choice in camera bodies and lenses that come in various shapes, sizes & weight, for all sorts of budgets, quality needs and skill levels. With lenses like the Panasonic 14mm f/2.5, this 15mm f/1.7, the 20mm f/1.7, 25mm f/1.7, 30mm f/2.8 Macro, 42.5mm f/1.7 OIS, Olympus 12mm f/2, 17mm f/1.7, 25mm f/1.8, 45mm f/1.8 and even third parties with the likes of the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT and ZY Optics/Zhongyi/Mitakon Speedmaster 25mm f/0.95... there's just a line-up of unheard of snacksize quality lenses that are such tremendous value. Which is an important note to make, btw, that it's really the lenses that make a system small.

Shaving a few mm off a camera body might hurt the capability of said camera body, but it won't do much to make the system compact, that's really all down to the lenses you throw in front of it. That's why Sony APS-C mirrorless doesn't interest me in the slightest. The A6500 has been kept tiny to appeal to potential customers. What that however results in is a camera that has poor ergonomics, lack of ports (e.g. no headphone jack, no dual cardslots) and can't get rid of heat (the A6500 introduced 'tripod mode' where it raises the threshold temperature where overheat protection kicks in, but rendering the camera so hot that you can no longer shoot with it handheld, hence need to use a tripod). But body aside (which is only 1 per generation, so... very little to choose from) they've been neglecting to develop compact APS-C lenses for years and years now. So... if you want a new and exciting lens from Sony, you'll be adapting a Sony FF E-mount lens. And doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of having an APS-C system? And because I find that camera body inadequate... it even makes more sense to just buy the sharply priced and well-rounded A7III of theirs already which makes for a package that makes a whole lot more sense. But... then suddenly you find yourself in the fullframe zone... which is surrounded by big, heavy and expensive lenses. Nah. Not for me, sorry.

The GX85 is lovely in its small size and takes full benefit from the tiny but very capable lenses. But I actually find the MFT flagships amongst the best cameras out there. Olympus of course with their E-M1 Mark II and Panasonic is really killing it with the GH5(S) and G9. The G9 is arguably the most ideal camera out there. Nice 'n grippy, weathersealed, dual cardslots, full audio interface, fullsized HDMI-port even, awesome battery life, superb implementation of a frontfacing vari-angle touchscreen, epic EVF, nice top LCD, joystick, bunch of dials and buttons with lots of customization options. Honestly, does it get much better than that? Well, yeah, when inside of it there's sensor-shift stabilization and interal 4K60p recording. That's why you gotta love mirrorless. That's what mirrorless should be all about! Getting all the innovation and features you can dream of. This seems to have gone unnoticed with some of the competition out there... and why Panasonic has a real shot at taking over the FF mirrorless space as well (again betting on depth from de-focus rather than on-sensor phase detection is... well, questionable, but might have its merits in the future with deep learning AI lending a hand. But I do feel it's a massive fail not to incorporate a vari-angle screen... which has become a staple feature since the release of the first Lumix G camera, the G1 and there has even been a petition to get Panasonic to change their mind about the 3-axis Fujifilm non-forward facing screen and incorporate a vari-angle screen once more (when not on the stills focused S1R, then atleast on the hybrid/video focused S1).

But like I said. That there's a lot going on in the FF space doesn't mean MFT is dead just quite yet. Just like smartphones aren't dead because people went and bought a tablet. That's what I always keep on saying time and time again. Use the right tool for the job. There's a time and place for a fullframe camera, sure. But there's many benefits to a crop sensor camera that shouldn't so easily be overlooked. My 20 cts. ;P

This is an excellent image collection from 15/1.7, one of the best I have seen.

Baker image an all time classic!!!   Love it every time I see it.

I was looking for videos on YouTube about this lens,....saw your video in the list,...20 minutes long,...I thought I won't have the patience for this,...but I clicked on it anyway,....and man, am I glad I did. This is just the type of lens I am looking for,...low light capabilities and great for street photos. The sample pictures you showed were absolutely great,...very professional. And your presentation and comments were first class. Thanks.

Looks like a pretty nice lens Joe.