Lens help for the GH5

Picking lenses for mft can be tough if you don't own any already.

I have nikon lenses and mft lenses for my gh3, I only have nikon because thats what I already had, but you also don't need an electronic adapter for nikon lenses, which is nice.

As for mft lenses, there are plenty of great lenses, they are just a bit more expensive. The rokinon 7.5mm fish is a great lens if you want a fisheye, the olympus 12-40 is an amazing lens, but its $900. Panasonic makes a wide variety of lenses, you'll get what you pay for but they're all pretty decent.

I use a tokina 11-16 and tamron 17-50 with my kit, both work very well, but you'll need to choose nikon or canon. I also have a rokinon 8mm, panasonic 20mm and a nikon 70-210 (old lens).

TBH you best bet is probably the panasonic 14-42 kit along with a 45-150 would be a good start, but if you have like $2000 to spend on lenses, you can ball out with some olympus stuff, or go nikon/canon with an adapter.

mhuddy_22Im buying a GH5 soon but I'm stuck on what glass to get with it. Im gonna stick with mft right now and then probably buy a metabones ultra in the future. What are your thoughts?

Leica 12-60 is pretty cool but the 12-35 f2.8 version I is $700 right now which is pretty good

Check out the panasonic 14-140 f3.5. such a rad lens. i love mine. obviously has a huge range which is awesome.

If you have no budget, the voigtlander lenses for mft are really fucking good and honestly still useable at 0.95 which was really impresssive.

I used to use the 10.5, 17.5, and 25 (didn't use the 42.5) and I really liked them, the 17.5 probably being my favorite of the bunch

Apparently manual nikon lenses work very nicely on the GH- and they are fairly cheap and easy to find. As eHeath said you don't need an electronic adapter.