With a diagonal angle of view of 180-degree, it brings a distinctive perspective and unique deformation effect. It gives not only photos but also movies an extraordinary view to add an impressive scene to the story even for TV contents, films and web movies. Comprising ten lenses in nine groups, the new lens system features an outstanding compactness, taking advantage of the Micro Four Thirds system standard to achieve dramatic downsizing to the world's smallest and lightest size*. The adoption of an ED lens achieves a stable descriptive performance from close-up to infinity minimizing chromatic aberration and distortion.
*For a digital interchangeable fisheye lens as of June 1, 2010.

A wide angle of view and outstanding depth of field make this pancake type wide-angle lens a good choice for both snapshots and landscapes. Rendering high-contrast images across the entire frame and correcting distortion, this super-thin lens is especially ideal for capturing subjects that are primarily linear, such as buildings with a number of straight lines. Its simple lens construction - 6 elements in 5 groups, including 3 glass aspherical lenses – allows both high performance and an astonishingly compact size.

Not only is this 20mm lens extremely compact and light weight, it also features an impressively fast and bright F1.7 apeture, allowing for a beautiful soft focus for photos and movies. 7 lenses in 5 groups, with 2 aspherical lenses effectively located to minimize both distortion and chromatic aberrations, this lens achieves super high resolution corner to corner. The thin 20mm pancake design is suitable from daily snapshots, descreet reportage photography, sunset, and dimly lit indoor shots, all benefiting from its beautiful soft focus.

The extraordinary brightness allows a beautiful soft focus for photo and video to be even more impressive, encouraging users not to use the flash even in dimly-lit conditions. Certified with the name of world-renowned LEICA, the exceptional high image quality is guaranteed. Panasonic's Nano Surface Coating technology is newly adopted to minimize the reflection dramatically at entire visual light range (380nm-780nm) by applying the extra-low refractive index coating with nano-sized structure on the lens surface. It results in the super clear picture with dramatic reduction of ghost and flare.