List Price: $599.95 Price: $399.88 You save: $200.07 (33%)
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Features:
Specially treated to shed water droplets, and engineered to withstand the rigorous demands of professional use
Designed to capitalize on the design advantages of the OLYMPUS Four Thirds System
Large f/2.0 aperture, with minimum weight and bulk
50mm range -- equivalent to 100mm in conventional 35mm photography
Editorial Review:
The OLYMPUS Zuiko Digital interchangeable lenses have been developed specifically for digital SLR use, with professional grade specifications to ensure optimum performance. As dedicated digital camera lenses, they ensure that light strikes the image sensor at a near-perpendicular angle, eliminating image degradation and light loss that can occur at the periphery of the image area, or when shooting with wide angle lenses. They also support high speed, high precision focus, and offer superb zoom and focus response.
One of the brightest Zuiko digital lenses is the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 medium telephoto macro lens. Offering an equivalent to 100mm on a 35mm camera, the lens boasts a maximum magnification ratio of 0.52x along with a minimum focusing distance of 9.45 inches, letting you get nice and close to your subject. The extra-low-dispersion (ED) glass element, meanwhile, reduces chromatic aberrations to deliver superior image quality with high resolution and good contrast. Add an EX-25 extension tube and you can focus to approximately 1x, equivalent to 2x on a 35mm camera. All Olympus lenses carry a one-year warranty.
Specifications
Focal length: 50mm
Maximum aperture: f/2.0
Lens construction: 11 elements in 10 groups, including 1 ED glass element
Angle of view: 24 degrees
Closest focusing distance: 9.45 inches
Maximum image magnification: 0.52x
Minimum field size: 33.3 x 25mm
Number of blades: 7
Minimum aperture: f/22
Filter size: 52mm
Tele converter: EC-14
Extension tube: EX-25
Lens hood: LH-55
Lens cap: LC-52
Lens case: LSC-0814
Dimensions: 2.8 inches in diameter and 2.4 inches long
Weight: 10.6 ounces
Warranty: 1 year
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Best Macro lens out there
I was amazed by the clarity of my macro as well as the protraits. Later I learned that this can very well be used for protraits and expect a great result. The photos which I took with this (almost 2000 or more) are amazingly high quality. DOF pictures came out to be the best with this lens.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into
The E-520 was my first dSLR (10 days ago) and the 50 mm f/2.0 was the first lens I put on it. Having just migrated, or upgraded, from a "bridge" camera (Panasonic FZ18), the whole setup just blew me away. I never thought I would like macro shooting as much as I am liking it (I was always a "zoom" person): I can actually see things through this lens, and on the computer afterwards, that I'd never noticed before. All the images were sharp as a tack, with wonderful contrast and color and a wealth of detail.... more info
Fantastic image quality
Wow, what can I say? The image quality of this lens is stunning. I've never taken such great photos. Only con is that the autofocus is a bit slower than I would like so some of my kid photo's don't come into sharp focus - but this means that I'll have to do some F-stop/Aperture changes myself. Bokeh is incredible.
Five star product, but, (and it's a big but)...
I actually decided not to buy this, and bought the 35mm version instead. It's still an Olympus, it does great macro, it costs less than half what this one costs, and it's actually more usable as a stand-by 35mm, (70mm in old speak) lens, it's not too tele-photo, whereas this lens comes out at 100mm in old speak, and it is definitely a tele-photo lens and would not be much good as a stand-by. Now this lens has a better luminosity, f2 against f3.5, than its cheaper brother, so it'll work better in... more info
