Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Telephoto Macro ED Lens for E1, E300 & E500 Digital SLR Cameras | 
 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
List Price: $599.95
Buy New: $399.00 (On sale from $409.89)
You Save: $10.89 (3%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Maximum Focal Length: 50
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 5.1 x 5.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 261003
Model: 261003
UPC: 050332140660
EAN: 0050332140660
ASIN: B0000TU7I6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 | | • | For use with the OLYMPUS E-1 and other Four Thirds Series Digital SLR Cameras, as specified |
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Product Description
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.
Amazon.com Product Description
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
LOVE THIS LENS!!! January 6, 2009
I am a real estate photographer and was considering getting into portraits. After reading all the great reviews decided to go for it. I am so glad I did. My first shoot was a complete success. The agent loved 12 out of 48 photos -- which is a great percentage based on her prior experience where the photographer took 150 photos and she only liked 2! I love the blurred background effect. This lens gets my highest recommendation.
Best Macro lens out there November 12, 2008
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 September 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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. I'd say that using this lens is all about enjoying photography, no matter what the user's level of expertise is. This may not be a pro's review -- nothing could be farther from that! --, but I hope it is useful for you.
 Fantastic image quality September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)... September 6, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
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 low-light conditions. But there again it will give you less depth of field, so focussing on all a subject might be less fun than with the cheaper lens.
There you go: two fabulous Olympus lens. One is half the price of the other, but they don't do precisely the same job. They both have weak and strong points when directly compared. Enjoy choosing! (I'm a coward: I hooked each up to my E420 body, right there in the store, and let them "make" the decision for me...)
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