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Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Telephoto Macro ED Lens for E1, E300 & E500 Digital SLR Cameras
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Olympus Zuiko 50mm f/2.0 Telephoto Macro ED Digital SLR Camera Lens
It’s a very sharp olympus macro lens. At zuiko 50mm it’s doubled as a portrait lens. I won’t use it as a landscape lens. At f8, it’s still in macro mode, so if you want more depth of field on a bright day, it may not be the best zuiko 50mm to use.
The compact size is a big selling point. The 1:2 magnification ratio (or 1:1 35mm equivalent) is wonderful giving that naked-eye look. When it’s mounted on my E-620, viewfinder is brighter than when 14-54mm II is mounted because of the brighter aperture (f2 vs f2.8).
The olympus macro lens hood is shaped like a noodle bowl. When reversed (storing position), it’ll cover the manual focus ring, disallow focus by hand. This is a problem, since this zuiko 50mm lens is not an AF performer.
Speaking of AF, it makes me wish Olympus would make a high-speed imager AF version of it, so it doesn’t have to flip the mirror when focusing. Olympus macro lens are not known for fast AF anyways.
Its AF tends to hunt a lot. Practically speaking, this is a MF ring is very nice and dampened. It’s the “focus-by-wire” type. Though purists may not like it over the mechanical focus, but it allows a generous three full revolution MF traveling distance from shortest to infinite.
That should make precise MF easier. However, because of that, you’re not gonna get a fast enough manual focus for street/action photography.
The olympus macro lens will double in length when you focus toward the minimum focus distance (0.24m), so keep the hood on in operation position will help preventing lens from bumping into your subject because of carelessness.
This olympus macro lens is considered one of the best lenses of its type. When I first got it, I noticed it’s significantly brighter than my 14-54mm II. The picture it takes looks sharper, and has better Booker (out of focus area).
If you are thinking about hooking the older 50mm f2 (effectively 100mm with 4/3 format) with the OM-adapter to your olympus macro lens then you’re not alone.
However, after some research, I believe it’s better to buy this zuiko 50mm digital lens than use the older lens because this zuiko 50mm lens has an ED glass which is absent from the film SLR model. ED glass will help reducing chromatic aberration (which is more of a problem for digital format than film) and make the end result sharper as well.
Construction is solid. It feels like a giant rock in hand, and is capable of killing Goliath if mounted on a sling. Like all other Olympus Pro level lenses, it’s splash and dust proof and it has metal body with glass fibre reinforced plastic exterior that matches Olympus camera body.
Highly recommended for olympus macro lens users. Not recommended as the always-on lens because of the AF speed.
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