Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1.8 Lens (Black)
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Great short telephoto for m4/3
A great combo with the Olympus 17/1.8 or the Lumix G 20/1.7 Absolutely fantastic for candid or narrative portraits, the thick depth of field inherent in the small sensor size of micro four-thirds means you can absolutely shoot wide open and focus will be fast, accurate and focus will cover the entire faces of people The only thing I don't like about it is its skinny look! But who buys lenses for how they look like, we buy them for the images they can create. If you own a micro four thirds camera this lens is a must have!
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Superb lenses with great bokeh
These portrait lense kits is must have in your list. Not many to said about these lenses as so many possitive review from these both lenses out there. Yes I'm a bit odd with 75mm because you need more space from your object. But once the shutter release.. you will love the result. Yes bokeh.. I love bokeh.. and these lenses will give you a smooth and creamy taste bokeh on your picture. As I said, must have items. Wonder when Oly will deliver 25mm/42.5mm f/0.95 after they just realeased 25mm f/1.2 in this year photokina.
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Fixed lens for low light and portraits
Great in low light without breaking the bank. Really easy to use since it is a fixed lens. No zoom means you get to move your feet. If you like fixed lenses this is staple for your camera bag. Since the 35 mm focal equivalent is 90 mm it serves a great portrait lens without having to be on top of your subject. The f/1.8 allows for blurring the background for those portraits. A bit tight for indoor small rooms. A few more lenses have been added to the lineup since I bought this one that may give it a run for its money.
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Great Lens Lousy Hood
I have found this lens to be great for taking images of flowers and people. I also like it for taking pictures with available light indoors (e.g.; in museums). With extension tubes, it works almost as well as a macro lens. I ordered the Olympus hood for the lens and was greatly disappointed. The hood was too small and wouldn't fit onto the lens. I returned it. It was made of poor quality material compared to my other Olympus lens hoods. I wish the lens had a screw on high quality hood that wasn't greatly over priced.
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My most important lens within my kit
My M 4/3 body ia a Oly e-pl2. I've been stock piling FD mounted lens (7) & their fitted up with a Noaflex adapter. All of my lens, so fare-with the exception of my 14-42 mm, are manual focus. Thursday the 22nd 2011 I was fortune enough in buying the first Oly 45 mm f1:1.8 sold in the Los Angelas area; my camera shop phoned me and informed me that my lens just came in...Let me tell you! This lens goes way beyond Oly's claims- this lens shoots like a lens four times over its actual price. ITS A must have lensd!
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my favorite lens
I have 3 lenses for my Panasonic GH3 and this is by far my favorite. The bokeh is beautiful, it focuses fast,and the image is super sharp and clear. This lens is a must have for anyone with a MFT cam. The focal length is also great for portraits and in particular video interviews because it allows you to give the subject some extra space with the 45mm, which is actually 90mm. Only negative is it doesn't come with a bag or lens hood, so they kind of cheat you on that (the lens hood they make is also costly, )
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Very sharp lens, but maybe a little long for DJI Inspire 1
Bought this to use with my DJI Inspire 1 Pro. The lens is very sharp and has a nice focus falloff to it. Nice bokeh. Only issue I had with it was the jitters on when flying with it in minor winds (pretty calm). This is a 90mm equivalent on the X5, so it's no surprise that there were some jitters, but still unfortunate. So all-in-all, I can't knock the score too much, because it does a good job being a lens. But maybe a little too much for the Inspire 1 and X5. Looking to replace it with the 25mm instead.
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OHHHH SOOO GOOD
great great lens. I was shocked on how small it really is in person. But wow what a lens. the size makes it even better. I shoot with the GH3 so I have to keep the shutter fast when shooting hand held but well worth it. I dont know why i kept waiting to purchase this lens. This is a must have for m4/3.The only complaint is it does not come with a lens hood or lens bag like panny lenses. I would rather pay an extra 30 to 50 dollars and get the hood and lens bag with the lens instead of ordering separate.
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This excellent lens is a bargain for the price.
I have the Big Brother of this lens the 45mm F1.2 Lens also and I really have to talk myself into to see any difference between the two lenses for sharpness. The F1.2 is probably a ted sharper at wide open at F1.2 than this one at F1.8, but the difference is negligible. From F2.8 they are identical. I use this one on my Silver PEN-F with all the rest of the excellent Olympus small fixed focus lenses. The whole setup fits in myBillinghamHadley Small Pro Shoulder Bag. Outstanding lens, highly recommended.
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Great portrait lens!!
I have the Panasonic GX1. Been using it for about a month with the 20mm pancake lens. Which I like a lot but I wanted a longer lens. I got the Oly Zuiko 45mm f1.8 and I love it!! I tried it out on a professional shoot last week (along with my Canon gear/L primes) and a couple of the shots with this lens on the GX 1ended up being used by the client. It does great wide open (although I stopped it down to f2.2), nice bokeh. Haven't used it enough to find the absolute sweet spot yet, but..great lens!!
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Simply outstanding
I use the M. Zuiko 45mm lens mounted on an Olympus OM-D E-M5. It is a very small lens - not a pancake, but still very small and very light. Quick to focus, no rattling. Nice bokeh. Good build quality for the price. Depth of field at f/1.8 quite shallow. Lens hood and pouch are not included but third party hoods are available at reasonable prices. I would recommend that a hood be used with this lens. Reliability and durability reportedly are good but I have not owned the lens long enough to judge.
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Just my luck I get a bad copy
I just put this lens up against a Panasonic 25mm and a Panasonic 12-35 at the same f-stop - the 45mm was noticeably softer in the center of the frame. Actually the image overall was soft. Pictures taken with dual flashes fired wirelessly, static subject, same camera to subject distance. I'm requesting an RMA and probably just sticking with the other two lenses. Kind of disappointed considering how good all the reviews have been on this lens. I guess there are always bad copies out there.
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The short telephoto for m4/3
If there are people in your lives that you want to take pictures of, then do yourself a favor and buy this lens It's small, focuses fast, relatively affordable and at F1.8 and with the thicker depth of field inherent in m4/3, you can get people's faces all in focus. The biggest downfall for this lens is that it doesn't come with a hood, you have to buy it separately. And because you'll probably use this lens outdoors, you'll want and buy that lens hood as well which increases the price
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Fast focus, great quality
Have been living in the world of zooms for many years now and decided to giving a prime a try again (have not had a prime since my OM-1 decades ago). Nice lens, would say it is consistently faster at focus and the image quality is great. Have been tied to a zoom for so long it is really making me think about my picture,methinks zooms have made me a bit lazy (won't be giving them up though). If I had one complaint it would be I wish it would focus a bit closer, minor issue.
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Nice lens
This lens has excellent image quality, nice bokeh, and is small and lightweight. It is a good portrait lens and nice for lower-light situations, both cases where the fast f1.8 aperture is useful. Micro four thirds lenses seem expensive to me (compare the price of this lens with Nikon or Canon 50mm f1.8 lenses, for example), but compared to other micro four thirds lenses this one is among the more affordable prime lenses. In use, I don't see any negatives with this lens.
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Nice Portrait Lens
Although not a macro lens, its focal length makes it good for flora shots with its nice bokeh. It's sharp wide open as per the on-line review site tests and has no detectable optical faults. Flare is well controlled too. For micro 4/3rds format, of course the f/1.8 behaves more like f/4 at 90mm for full frame equivalent, but that's probably about the best you're going to get and it isolates the subject nicely. Bokeh is well behaved with stopping down.
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Great lens
Great, small, high quality lens. Focus is super fast and quiet. Images are of high quality. I prefer prime lenses and this one is a super performer in a very small form factor. my copy takes a bit of force to mount it in the bayonet - not sure if all versions of this lens have the same issue, but it take much more force than with my Oly 17mm f1.8. It's hard to be critical of this lens, but weather sealing on these Oly primes would be a nice feature.
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Must have lens, no doubt
I had good expectations of this lens based on other reviews but after playing it for one day I have to add to the accolades it already has. The mild telephoto restricts it to a particular set of shots (I bought it for portraits) but wow, when the requirements are right this is an amazing lens. On my EM-1 it is wicked fast for autofocus but even better for portraits it's crazy accurate. Attached shots are JPEGs straight out of the EM-1. Hand held.
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Meets the hype
This lens produces some amazingly sharp results. It is head and shoulder over any other lens I ever used.Focus seems a little slower than on some pana sonic lenses. No scientific measurements just an observation.The down side is that there is no Image Stabilization when combined with the panasonic body. With this focal length it makes using it for video handheld extremely difficult.The lack of a plastic hood is of course a major annoyance.
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dream lens
I love this lens. I use it on my Oly PEN E-P3. It is an ideal portrait lens though I don't shoot portraits except of my cat. I find it very useful for landscapes (getting over the road or parking lot) and many low light situations, and where shallow DOF is desired. I have used it for food photography with great results. It is not a problem, but I find this lens goes on with a bit of resistance. No complaints, this is a wonderful product.
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Valued buy
Came across this kit package that included lens hoods and lens pouches. When purchased separately one would pay a few extra $$. The 75mm is sharp with very nice bokeh, feels good in the hand with solid construction, all metal. The focal length is a challenge in tight space and thats where the 45mm comes in, also sharp and good bokeh but made of plastic though its light. No regret buying it. Paired well with pen f or omd 5 mark I.
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Sharp fast short telephoto
i bought this for use with my e-p2. Many years ago I was a pro-photographer, now it's all for pleasure but still I like good sharp (from corner to corner) fast lenses. Most lenses for digital cameras seem soft (especially in corners and wide open) and have other issues --- bad build, chroma problems, and so on. I was pleasantly surprized by the quality and performance of this lens, reminded me of some of my old prime Nikon lenses.
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Best lenses I have ever had.
I compared this with full frame canon lenses and I saw no difference, so I sold all my full frame canon stuff and moved into the micro 4/3 world. Much lighter w/o loosing much image quality. You must know that only a few micro 4/3 lenses are really good... and it's hard to swallow because the good ones are more expensive that the cameras... so don't change systems for the money... do it for the fact that they are much lighter.
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A bargain at the sale price of $
Sharp and crisp but even more important to me is the nice micro contrast, plus I don't care for over saturation in photos so I like the accurate colors Olympus gives right out of the box that require very little post processing. I shoot 99% RAW. I do wish it had the ring that the 17mm 1.8 has that makes it so easy to switch to manual focus. Also wish it came with center pinch lens cap. Only 4 stars because I'm a tough grader.
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