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Panasonic Lumix S 18mm F/1.8 Ultra-Wide-Angle Lens (S-S18)The Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f 1. 8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens (S S18) is an ultra wide prime lens designed for L Mount full frame mirrorless cameras. This lens is part of Panasonic's f 1. 8 prime series, offering a fast maximum aperture and a wide 18mm focal length, making it ideal for landscapes, architectural photography, astrophotography, and dynamic, wide angle environmental shots. Its compact size and lightweight design make it a great option for
The Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Ultra-Wide-Angle Lens (S-S18) is an ultra-wide prime lens designed for L-Mount full-frame mirrorless cameras. This lens is part of Panasonic's f/1.8 prime series, offering a fast maximum aperture and a wide 18mm focal length, making it ideal for landscapes, architectural photography, astrophotography, and dynamic, wide-angle environmental shots. Its compact size and lightweight design make it a great option for photographers and videographers alike, seeking a balance of image quality and portability.
Key Features:
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Ultra-Wide 18mm Focal Length:
- The 18mm focal length offers a super-wide field of view, making it perfect for capturing expansive landscapes, architecture, and interiors. It’s also a great choice for astrophotography and creative perspectives that emphasize dramatic compositions. The ultra-wide angle enables photographers to fit more into the frame without distortion, especially important for architectural or real estate photography.
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Bright f/1.8 Aperture:
- The fast f/1.8 maximum aperture allows for shooting in low-light conditions and provides excellent depth-of-field control. Despite being an ultra-wide lens, the f/1.8 aperture creates a smooth bokeh effect, especially when the subject is close to the camera. This makes it suitable for both photography and videography where background separation is desired.
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Compact and Lightweight:
- Weighing only 340g (12 oz), this lens is incredibly lightweight and portable, making it ideal for on-the-go shooting. Its compact form factor pairs well with Lumix S-series cameras, providing a balanced and easy-to-carry setup, especially useful for travel, street, and event photography.
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High-Quality Optical Design:
- The lens features 13 elements in 12 groups, including 3 aspherical elements, 1 ED (Extra-low Dispersion) element, 3 UHR (Ultra-High Refractive Index) elements, and 1 UED (Ultra Extra-Low Dispersion) element. This sophisticated optical design reduces chromatic aberrations, distortion, and fringing, ensuring high image clarity and sharpness across the frame, even when shooting at the wide f/1.8 aperture.
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Fast and Silent Autofocus:
- The linear autofocus motor offers fast, precise, and quiet focusing, making it suitable for both still photography and video applications. The near-silent autofocus performance is especially advantageous for videographers, as it ensures that autofocus noise won’t interfere with audio recording.
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Weather-Sealed Build:
- Designed for outdoor use, the lens is dust, splash, and freeze-resistant, ensuring reliable performance in harsh weather conditions. It’s built to function in temperatures as low as -10°C (14°F), making it suitable for various environmental shooting conditions.
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9-Blade Rounded Diaphragm:
- The 9-blade rounded diaphragm produces a smooth and pleasing bokeh quality when shooting at wide apertures, allowing for a beautifully defocused background, even with the ultra-wide 18mm focal length.
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Minimal Focus Breathing for Video:
- The lens is optimized for video recording, with minimal focus breathing, meaning there’s little change in the angle of view while adjusting focus. This makes it perfect for smooth focus transitions during video work, ensuring a consistent framing throughout.
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Part of Panasonic’s f/1.8 Prime Series:
- The 18mm f/1.8 is part of Panasonic’s f/1.8 prime lens series, which includes 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm lenses. These lenses share a similar form factor and handling characteristics, making them easy to switch between when working on multi-lens shoots.
Specifications:
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Maximum Aperture: f/1.8
- Minimum Aperture: f/16
- Lens Construction: 13 elements in 12 groups (with 3 aspherical elements, 1 ED element, 3 UHR elements, and 1 UED element)
- Diaphragm Blades: 9, rounded
- Minimum Focus Distance: 0.18m (7.09 inches)
- Maximum Magnification: 0.20x
- Filter Size: 67mm
- Dimensions: 73.6mm (diameter) x 82mm (length)
- Weight: 340g (12 oz)
- Mount: L-mount
Conclusion:
The Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 Ultra-Wide-Angle Lens (S-S18) is a powerful tool for photographers and videographers looking for a fast, ultra-wide prime lens that delivers exceptional image quality in a compact and lightweight package. Its 18mm focal length provides expansive coverage, while the bright f/1.8 aperture enables creative depth-of-field control and excellent low-light performance. With its weather-sealed construction, minimal focus breathing, and advanced optical design, this lens is an excellent choice for professionals and enthusiasts working in various genres, from landscapes to architectural photography and video production.
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★★★★★ 5
I am looking forward to relaxing and listening to a good (audio) book
Format: Audio CD Library Binding
Thanks. I am looking forward to relaxing and listening to a good (audio) book.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
★★★★★ 4
Vale la pena es muy bueno
Un libro épico , difícil un poco complicado pero la larga vale la pena lo he leído dos veces y la segunda vez fue igual de emocionante que la primera mucha información
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Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Guns,germs, and steel on disks
This book is full of info most of which is confusing and useless but had to read it for school and the disks really only give the important info and skip the rest. over all product is great!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2010
★★★★★ 5
One of the best purchases I've made in a while.
Format: Hardcover
As a devoted fan of the show from almost the very beginning, I followed all the interviews, sneak peeks, and DVD commentaries aggressively, so I thought I knew a good bit about every aspect of the show, from its influences to its creation process to little trivia bits about the finished episodes. I told myself I didn't need the art book because it would tell me little about Avatar that I didn't already know. For a while I was able to hold off buying this book, but the art in Avatar is so beautiful that I finally broke down and got it, telling myself that I might as well dish out twenty bucks to have a nice hardcover Avatar book to add to my collection of flimsy cinemanga and Earth Kingdom Chronicles paperbacks. Now I'm writing this review to tell every fan out there who has had even a minute's hesitation in buying this book: DO IT.
Avatar: The Art of the Animated Series covers everything you could dream of wanting to know about the show. I should have known Bryke would never do anything halfway. I was blown away by the obviously intense amount of effort the creators put into compiling such a thorough and well-put-together inside look at the creation process. They explain everything about Avatar's production, starting with their very first fateful meeting and taking fans all the way up through the end of the epic series. It's so neat to read about all their inspirations (especially if you're an anime fan; you'll probably recognize a lot of names) and some of the difficulties they had to overcome in order to make the show what it is today. It is a fantastic read from cover to cover.
As you can tell when you use Amazon's "look inside" feature, the creator commentary is arranged in paragraph format with bold letters to tell which creator is speaking. They actually go into a lot more detail than I thought they would about almost everything. They spend a lot of time talking about the development of characters: their personalities, design characteristics, models, and any changes that were made and why. (Plus it's really neat to see the way some of your favorite characters looked like originally!) They mention the animals, settings, voice acting, martial arts influences, weapons and technology, and all sorts of other things, some that you may not even necessarily have thought about much before, like color schemes and drawing styles. I learned a lot of really neat things about the process behind Avatar's animation and about the Korean studio that did such a beautiful job animating the series.
The thing I like most about this book is the great variety of art it showcases. There are original character concepts by various crew members, background sketches and paintings, real storyboard action sequences, martial arts references, detailed clothing and weapon designs, descriptions and illustrations of Avatar-verse animals, screenshots from the show and the original pilot episode, press and/or promotional art, and even some photos Mike and Bryan took on some of their trips to places that inspired the layout of the Avatar universe. And to top it all off, there is at least a one-page spread for each one of Avatar's 61 chapters that highlights some of the strongest points in each episode, whether it's new characters, locations, technology, action sequences, or a combination of several of these. Needless to say, this book is a must-have for all Avatar fans. Whether you're a casual fan who just happened to fall in love with the art (and there is plenty of it in this book, all amazing quality despite the fact that much of it is simply sketched) or you're a die-hard Avatard who wants to know everything about everything, trust me when I say that this compilation is worth every penny and more.
As for the packaging and shipping, I have very little to say - the item was wrapped adequately and arrived when it said it would. No problems there. The only minor (and I do mean minor) problem that I had was that one of the corners was bent when it arrived. It probably would have happened anyway, though, through regular use, so it's not really something to complain about. Everything else was fine, and the price is excellent given the durable binding and beautiful thick pages (not to mention the content). I know I've said this so many times that it's probably starting to sound old, but if you want a good look behind the scenes of the greatest cartoon of our generation, this is it. Other creators, take note: this is how TV series art books should be.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2012
★★★★★ 5
Spellbinding
Format: Hardcover
This is a wonderful art book for a spellbinding animation series. Making the series took 6 years, hundreds of artists, and hundreds of thousands of drawings. This book showcases a selection of some really beautiful illustrations.
There are loads of character and background designs inside, in sketches and in their finished coloured form. The main characters like Aang and others come with cool animation sequences created with pencils. Also included are many of the discarded concepts which were difficult to animate or doesn't suit the story. Appa had some really awesome spiral horns but were discarded, unfortunately. The character drawings are superb. Just by looking at their different expressions you can pretty much guess their characteristics.
Besides the characters which includes the town folks and soldiers, there are also drawings for many miscellaneous stuff like storyboards, airships, hybrid animals, wanted posters, promotional posters, chibi (or super deformed) style and random doodles from meetings.
Did I mention the background paintings? The world created is so beautiful!
The whole book is annotated heavily by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. They talk about everything on production, from creating the pilot episode to Nickelodeon approving the final season. You can see and read about their influences and inspiration everywhere, from Buddhism, Studio Ghibli, Gainax, Chinese martial arts, etc. It's very interesting to see how they apply what they learned from research to their drawings and animation.
This is a fantastic art book for the series and fans, which should appeal to anyone who hasn't watch the series. Good art appeals to all.
Highly recommended!
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2010