Lens review
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 60 mm f/2.8 ED Macro
11. Summary
- nifty casing with interesting design,
- sensational image quality in the frame centre,
- good image quality on the edge of the frame,
- slight chromatic aberration,
- zero distortion,
- excellent coma correction,
- moderate vignetting,
- silent and very accurate autofocus.
Cons:
- modest accessory kit,
- noticeable astigmatism at the maximum relative aperture.
The next test of the Olympus equipment shows that fixed-focal lenses, produced by that company you can buy practically on spec. The company keeps a high quality level of its optics and they don’t launch any trash. Overall I get an impression that it is Olympus which emerges unscathed from a deluge of recent slip-ups, service notes and software actualizations. Their products are carefully polished up so the first customers aren’t turned into beta-testers. Nowadays it is really worth emphasizing and praiseworthy.
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I don’t write a lot about the lens itself because there is no need to go on about it. Firstly it doesn’t have any competition in the Micro 4/3 system, secondly it is so good that you can recommend it to anybody, as we are doing right now.
Sample shots
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/250 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.65 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/250 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.43 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/250 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.08 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/400 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.85 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/6 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 8.78 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/500 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.86 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/125 s, ISO 400 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.38 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/3 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 8.81 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/5.6, exp. 1/3 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 5.3 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/5.6, exp. 1/2 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.67 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/8.0, exp. 1/3 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 8.13 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/5.6, exp. 1/4 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 5.56 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/2000 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.77 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/1600 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.81 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/5.6, exp. 1/640 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.51 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/4.0, exp. 1/1600 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.13 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/8.0, exp. 1/640 s, ISO 100 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.13 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/5.6, exp. 1/160 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.34 MB |
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Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/320 s, ISO 250 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 7.2 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/320 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.5 MB |
Camera: Olympus E-PL1 Parameters: 60 mm, f/2.8, exp. 1/250 s, ISO 200 File: JPEG, 4032×3024 pix, 6.44 MB |
