[This series will feature chapters that showcase key lenses in the LUMIX S Series lineup—built for photographers and filmmakers who demand high quality, consistency, and creative flexibility. The standard S Series lenses are designed to deliver excellent performance and reliability, with a balanced blend of image quality, portability, and affordability.]
When developing the LUMIX full-frame mirrorless system, LUMIX set out not only to deliver high-performance individual lenses, but to rethink how a set of lenses could function as an integrated toolset. The result is the LUMIX S F1.8 prime lens series — a compact, consistent lineup designed for creators who work across both photography and video.
This lineup includes the 18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm F1.8 lenses, and the 100mm F2.8 MACRO. Together, they span everything from ultra-wide perspectives to portraiture, detail work, and true macro photography. What sets them apart is not just their individual performance, but the system-wide consistency across design, control, and rendering.
A Shared Vision for Consistency
One of the core design goals for the F1.8 series was uniformity. All lenses (except for the 100mm MACRO, which maintains compatibility) share the same filter diameter (67mm), compact length, and nearly identical control layout. This simplifies everything from filter use to packing gear, balancing on gimbals, and switching lenses on set.
Despite differences in focal length and optical complexity, all lenses were designed to maintain a consistent center of gravity and handling feel. This is especially valuable for hybrid creators who frequently change lenses during shoots and want to avoid readjusting their setup.
Optical Performance Without Compromise
The F1.8 primes and the 100mm MACRO are more than just compact — they are optically refined. Built around shared design principles, the lenses use aspherical, ED, UED, and UHR elements to correct aberrations and produce sharp images with minimal distortion.
Each lens is optimized for its focal length, yet the team worked to preserve a common rendering character and color tone across the series. Even though they differ in internal construction, the color reproduction is tuned for consistency — essential for video creators who need seamless visual continuity when switching lenses.
Bokeh, Macro, and Detail
Bokeh across the F1.8 series is smooth and natural, aided by LUMIX's aspherical surface processing that avoids harsh “tree ring” effects. Special attention was given to controlling spherical aberration, allowing background blur to appear soft and unobtrusive across the lineup.
The newest addition to the series — the LUMIX S 100mm F2.8 MACRO — extends the creative range of the lineup. It offers true 1:1 macro magnification in a compact design that matches the handling and responsiveness of the other F1.8 lenses. Its shallow depth of field and close focusing make it ideal for still life, product, and nature photography, while maintaining the same AF performance and manual control options.
Built for Hybrid Creators
All lenses in the F1.8 series (including the 100mm MACRO) use linear motors for fast, accurate, and quiet autofocus. Paired with the latest LUMIX camera bodies, focusing is both quick and smooth, critical for both high-speed stills and focus-sensitive video shots.
Manual focus behavior is customizable, with support for both linear and non-linear ring response. Users can adjust the rotation angle to suit their preference — a key advantage when using follow focus systems or shooting macro with shallow depth of field.
Each lens also supports micro-step aperture control for smooth, flicker-free exposure transitions during video recording, particularly useful in changing lighting conditions.
A System Designed for Flow
What makes this lens series unique is how seamlessly the lenses work together. Whether you’re switching from a 35mm to an 85mm for portraits, or from a 50mm to the 100mm MACRO for tight detail work, the feel, focus response, and output remain consistent.
This unified approach is designed to support fast, intuitive shooting across formats. For hybrid creators — photographers, filmmakers, and content producers alike — the LUMIX S F1.8 prime series plus the 100mm F2.8 MACRO offers a streamlined, high-performance toolkit that supports creativity without getting in the way.
