GH2 Panasonic zoom lever

chauncythedog said:
I find the trudeau jar opener slips on the zoom. I use it, however for focus, where it works well
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Correct, I have the Trudeau and it does not play well with the 14-140 with the zoom. Haven't tried focus on that yet.
Does anyone know if the DMW-ZL1 works to focus the Nokton/20mm and or zoom for the 100-300 panny?
 
I picked up a few of them. Not very impressed with them for the Panny lenses. The 20mm is to close to the camera, and I kept bumping the camera since there isn't a fixed focus point with the focus-by-wire mechanism. The 14-42 isn't smooth enough when zooming for it to be worth it. The 14-140 in the above video doesn't look to smooth either for zooming.

Using it with my FD's it does add a nice "padding" effect when focusing, but I'm much fast at focusing by hand, but I suppose this is ment for a smoothing agent when racking focus. Worth a try for a few bucks!
 
yes it works on the 100-300 pana lens
sparky33 said:
Correct, I have the Trudeau and it does not play well with the 14-140 with the zoom. Haven't tried focus on that yet.
Does anyone know if the DMW-ZL1 works to focus the Nokton/20mm and or zoom for the 100-300 panny?
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DMW-ZL1 Zoom Lever

DMW-ZL1 Zoom Lever

I was able to get one on Ebay.

I agree it seems a little costly ($28+ shipping) for what you get, but I like it on my 14-140.

Zooms are much smoother and I can hold my camera with two hands while zooming with one finger.
 
I have a Panasonic DMW-ZL1 Zoom Lever for my 14-140mm & it works really well. It's just a bit galling to pay £27 ($45) for a piece of plastic that must have cost Panasonic all of 50c to manufacture & should have been included in the box with an $800 lens.
 
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