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Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Telephoto Macro ED Lens for E1, E300 & E500 Digital SLR Cameras
Studio : Olympus
by Olympus
Brand : Olympus
Model : 261003
Minimum Focal Length : 50
Maximum Focal Length : 50
Publisher : Olympus
Availability : Usually ships in 3-4 business days
EAN : 0050332140660
UPC : 050332140660
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 51 reviews)
List Price : $599.00
Our Price : $449.00
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Specially treated to shed water droplets, and engineered to withstand the rigorous demands of professional use
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Designed to capitalize on the design advantages of the OLYMPUS Four Thirds System
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Large f/2.0 aperture, with minimum weight and bulk
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50mm range -- equivalent to 100mm in conventional 35mm photography
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For use with the OLYMPUS E-1 and other Four Thirds Series Digital SLR Cameras, as specified
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Product Description |
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The ZUIKO DIGITAL ED50mm f2.0 Macro is a dedicated lens for macro photography. The 2.0 maximum aperture makes it excellent for available-light shooting while the attachment of macro flash systems is also possible. It includes an ED lens element for crisp, colorful images. |
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Prophotosales.com Product Description |
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One of the brightest Zuiko digital lenses is the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 medium 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
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An Exceptional Zuiko Lens that works in 3 ways |
Let me first start by saying that this is an exceptional les, perhaps the best in terms of picture quality I've seen by Zuiko. In terms of versatality, this lens performs well as a macro, although an extension tube will be handy, very well as a short telephoto with great sharpness and color rendition at all apertures, and the best as a portrait lens wide open.
To give you an idea, please take a look at the website [...]
This website has portrait photographs and each one of them has been created using this lens. The quality is evident and the color rendition and sharpness is flawless. I would say that if you own an Olympus DSLR, you must have this lens. You won't regret it. |
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Our Money Maker |
We bought this lens a month ago for my wife's Olympus E620. Hands down the sharpest lens we own. We have a photography business and the photos we have made from this lens have got us 5 Referals in less than 3 weeks! This lens is sharp, sharp, sharp. The focus is dead on, albeit a little slow. It does tend to hunt a smidge. It is a bit noisy as well. For macros and portraits there is no beating this lens.
If I could i'd give this lens a 4.7 for the slow AF and the VERY minor hunting issue. Since I can't, it gets a 5. In the end it's about image quality and this lens cannot be beat. It paid itself off in 3 shoots. This lens is now our #1 go-to lens for portraits. The money we are now making with this lens is being used to buy our next lens. For all Olympus shooters this lens is an absolutely-positivly, must have lens. |
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Excellent Olympus copy lens too |
I bought this lens in early November through Prophotosales. It arrived the day before taking a day trip to Yellowstone, so crammed it into the pack and used it on both an Olympus E-620 and an older E-330--with excellent results on either camera. Very sharp corner to corner, with fine contrast and color of infinity landscape shots. I used F6.3--perhaps the sharpest aperture according to lens test comments found on the web. Quick, reliable auto-focus, as well.
What I could not find in any of the reviews of this lens before buying was some reference to its use as a copy lens for shooting flat art in a studio. Well, I can comment on this myself now--the lens is superb as a copy lens, again at F6.3. Artwork measuring 6x8 inches to 14x17 inches is rendered tack sharp right to the corners with careful post-processing of RAW files using an Olympus E-620 camera. And this was pencil work exhibiting varying degrees of reflective sheen shot through a Tiffin polarizing filter under bright tungsten lamps. Auto-focus on flat art was quick and completely reliable with just a push of the shutter button half-way down.
The CA (only hintlingly visible on the edges of the drawing paper itself) is so minimal, it hardly needs to be corrected--taking only a tiny adjustment to completely remove in Photoshop Raw software. I don't know if this is a genuine flat-field lens, but I could not detect any distortion in the image margins--straight lines stay straight nearly to the frame edges.
I spent 30 years using Olympus 50mm F3.5 macro lenses with OM-1N 35mm film cameras for copywork purposes. Nice to see Olympus has a lens that permits excellent copywork to continue in a digital medium. |
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Enables me to take low-light sports photos |
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My kids all play school sports and I struggled to get decent images at basketball games or evening football games with my other lenses. This f/2 lens takes great images of basketball. No longer am I looking at low-light grainy photos. I'm anxious to see the results I get during next year's football season as well. My only issue is that sometimes the tele-photo doesn't allow me to get far enough away from the action I want to capture! |
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Magical lens!! |
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This lens is very capable of producing artistic pictures that I was not able to get on my kit lens. Color, contrast and depth of field are spot on. This is a lens that I would keep for a very long time.. Good job Olympus! |
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