Curiosity: If you remove the front aperture patch on the LUMIX S 26mm F8, will it become equivalent to F4?

Asobinet report about an interesting finding:

• If you remove the aperture patch on the LUMIX S 26mm F8, it will change from F8 to F4.
• At infinity, the amount of incoming light may exceed F4.
• Not recommended if you do not have disassembly skills.
• When checking with the aperture patch removed, there is no degradation in image quality visible to the naked eye.

Try this at your own risk 🙂

P.S.: Still think that if this lens would have been f/4.0 instead of f/8.0 it would have become quite popular!