{"id":606837,"date":"2026-09-21T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:26:15","slug":"panasonic-adds-compact-20mm-f2-5-to-l-mount-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606837\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic adds compact 20mm F2.5 to L-Mount range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic has announced the LUMIX S 20mm F2.5 (S-S20), a compact full-frame L-Mount lens designed for travel, street, landscape and video photography.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing around 142g and measuring 40.9mm long, the lens combines a 20mm ultra-wide focal length with a bright F2.5 aperture. It focuses as close as 0.18m and uses three aspherical elements to deliver sharpness across the frame.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cdn.yaffa.com.au\/yaffadsp\/images\/dmImage\/SourceImage\/p1009569.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Panasonic\"\/><br \/>\nImage: Panasonic<\/p>\n<p>For video, the lens is designed to minimise focus breathing and features fast, silent autofocus. A customisable Lens Fn button and control ring are also included.<\/p>\n<p>The lens has dust-, splash- and freeze-resistant construction, along with a fluorine coating on the front element. Panasonic says it is particularly suited to the compact LUMIX S9.<\/p>\n<p>The LUMIX S 20mm F2.5 will be available from October for $849 RRP in black or light silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panasonic has announced the LUMIX S 20mm F2.5 (S-S20), a compact full-frame L-Mount lens designed for travel, street,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-606837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}