Whether shooting stills or video the 85mm offers an amazing mix of field of view and background compression, the f/1.8 aperture ensures size and weight are optimised without compromising image quality for stunning portraits and more. Designed with the user in mind and weighing in at 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 wide manual focus ring can easily identified and reduce the need to take your eye away from the viewfinder when shooting. The 85mm contains a number of special lens elements (2 ED elements) to ensure image quality across the frame. Details are rendered sharply while chromatic aberration, false colours, vignetting and drop off in the corners is minimised. The lens optical design minimises focus breathing, allows smooth exposure changes and reduces image shifting when zooming making this is ideal lens for shooting video as well as photography. Thanks to the 9 Aperture blades and circular aperture means that the background areas of your image will be nicely out of focus to make your main subject stand out, giving you the maximum control of those out of focus areas within your image. The focusing motors within the lens are designed to provide you with silent operation so you shoot without disturbing your subject without compromising on the speed of focus. The lens has the ability to provide focusing control by being able to move the focusing elements at up to 240 frame 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 the internal elements from sand and rain, giving you the confidence to shoot in some of the toughest conditions, even down to -10 degrees centigrade *Dust & Splash resistance does not guarantee that damage will not occur if the lens is subjected to direct contact with dust and water. The 85mm is fully compatible with the In-body image stabilisation, which can offer over 5 stops of compensation with the entire range of LUMIX S-series cameras, and is compatible with the cameras from the L-mount alliance partners.