Olympus 50mm f/1.8 OM F.Zuiko : Specifications and Opinions

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Shot

sent on 31 Dicembre 2024

Pros: Sharpness, easy handling

Cons: Resolution on dense sensors

Opinion: I use it from time to time, on my digital Olympus, so very dense and demanding sensors, the character is there and the sharpness too, but too closed colors without pleasant variations, if you find it at a more than honest price buy it, but honestly it does 2 times better than the 25 f1.8 ... I got it as a gift... every now and then I mount it to play with it... all in all I still put aside my tastes in expressing a vote and I gave 9

Guido Gonzato

sent on 16 Settembre 2024

Pros: Sharpness, easy focusing, robustness

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: Recovered from my glorious Olympus OM 10 bought exactly 40 years ago. I didn't expect this lens to be so sharp, so easy to focus that it was super easy and enjoyable to use. After 40 years, it looks like new, which speaks in favor of its build quality. I mainly use it to make landscape mosaics; for this use it is the best lens I have (even the Helios 44-* are not bad). At f/11 it is also razor-sharp in the corners on my Sony a6000. For close-up use at large aperture, it makes a beautiful gradient with a hint of swirl. In summary: a wonderful lens that I am very happy about. 30 laude.

Aster

sent on 01 Marzo 2021

Pros: Image quality, contrast, focus accuracy, compactness and lightness

Cons: In ta backlight it loses a lot of contrast and sharpness (but it is still a vintage with therefore an anti-glare treatment not up to the current ones), minimum focus distance of 0.45m

Opinion: It is simply pleasant to use, thanks to its comfort of use and above all to the optical quality quietly comparable to that of 50mm even more recent; beautiful aesthetically and inexplicably very cheap (it is also in excellent condition at €20/€30 currently). Its merits make it a best buy lens capable of still giving great satisfaction after almost 50 years, although its best version seems to be the third produced since the late 1980s. The focus ring is precise, the blurry in my opinion pleasant, the level of detail in the images makes it also suitable for landscape use or close up, perhaps with extension tubes given the minimum focus distance not really short. Good level of contrast and balanced color rendering, perhaps sometimes tending very little to warm shades. Achilles heel are the backlights, especially with artificial lighting, to which the now dated anti-glare treatment can not resist, compromising sharpness and contrast and highlighting chromatic aberrations. On the whole it is certainly a lens capable of being appreciated and to which you are easily attached!

AlfioLadisa

sent on 21 Ottobre 2020

Pros: Sharpness, price

Cons: Focus ring too hard

Opinion: I've used this lens for almost all of my shots so far and I'm more than satisfied. The focus, which is done by moving a fairly hard ring, is very precise: I just need to use the focus peaking of my camera to get very sharp images. It is located at very low prices, I would say it is absolutely worth it!

AngelaRav

sent on 19 Aprile 2020

Pros: the price, the detail, I enjoy.

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: an old optic of my old olympus kit that I never wanted to undo. I use it with an adapter ring for my EMD OM 5 Mark II and to make macro I add an extension ring. I like the result and it takes me back in time. The detail seems good to me and the result also. Sometimes it gives a soft vibe to the image. For the price for which it is located it is worth it.

Carlo Spirito

sent on 12 Febbraio 2020

Pros: Solver, big bokeh, great mechanics.

Cons: No one would say

Opinion: With this and bw film I would say a step back chronologically compared to digital, but finally a pleasant grain with three-dimensionality that I had forgotten. In digital we talk about noise here of grain that even if accentuated does not compromise the resolution . The mechanics are time-tested with fluidity now unknown. Long live the analog ! Maybe scanned, maybe worked a little computer, but the impact of chemical emulsion is unsurpassed.

Stefluni56

sent on 27 Novembre 2019

Pros: Value for money, optical quality

Cons: Nothing as far as I paid him

Opinion: Bought on a market in the early 1990s, paid 20 000 lre (!), to complete my bizarre Olympus OM2 kit (I had the 35mm and a 135mm, plus I used for the macro an amazing 58mm screw lens of my old Zenit. Excellent lens, bright and engraved. Given all the film kit about twenty years ago, I bought back an Olympus kit (this time OM1) with this extraordinary goal. Very fun to use it!

Gsabbio

sent on 27 Novembre 2019

Pros: Size and mechanical quality

Cons: The first version was optically poor

Opinion: In 1977 it was my first OM lens with an OM1, mine that was of the first version (silver ring) had a marked flare and a low sharpness at full opening. For the inexperienced it represented the entrance into the wonderful world of photography and everything was taken with enthusiasm, but as time went on and as the experience grew, the flaws became obvious. Of mine I noticed when I took a few test photos comparing it to the Pentax 50 f1.7, when already in the crosshairs you could see the difference of the flare and the tests showed a clear optical inferiority. It is possible that with the second version -black dial and MC treatment - the quality had improved. On my own... I switched to 50 f1.4 and changed the world.

Ariete66

sent on 10 Agosto 2017

Pros: Light well-built light

Cons: It does not matter since it is a vintage lens

Opinion: I took it for curiosity given the price of € 40.00. Tried with Olympus O-MD-EM 10 MARK II and the result is more than satisfactory. I think it's a lens to always have with if the street in B & W is amazingly very satisfied with the expense. For all photographers who like this kind of photo I would highly recommend it

Alexander52

sent on 30 Aprile 2017

Pros: Lightweight design quality blurred sharpness outer diaphragm bezel sharpness

Cons: Do not have it in the propio kit

Opinion: I think the best. 50 1.8 in its category, I used it with om 10, very sharp does not foul in anything from the center to the edges already open, I use it now on nikon d200, d7000, d610 after changing the bayonet, pixco per l , Accuracy purchased on ebay at 15 euros without lenses with infinite mf, great on all the perfect machines on the d610 where it resumes all its features, such as the movie of a vote, even better on sensor, compared with nikon 50 1.8 afd Wins in sharp contrast and uniform image, manual but soft, quick note due to the fluidity of the ring, which say if you like the vintage and perfect optics .. I highly recommend it.

Umberto.marcenaro

sent on 17 Gennaio 2017

Pros: Blur, sharpen, contrasto.rnPeso, size, quality costruttiva.rnPrezzo.

Cons: F stop without intermediate shots.

Opinion: It is the lens where it all began about 20 years ago. I do not see, however, with the eyes of affection because with that objectivity: in its price range there is nothing better, neither in terms of overall image quality, or to costruttiva.rnCi quality can be slow with a blurred even more special, the most effective anti-reflection coatings, crispest, greater plasticity and improved design quality. But you will not find one that has all the features listed without lacking in any area. RNLA color rendering is optimized for film: Before you turn up your nose past files for acr and eye to the white balance: it is still the optics that do not communicate with machines moderne.rnSu aps works fine but loses a bit 'of its three-dimensionality.

user94858

sent on 27 Maggio 2016

Pros: A goal exceptional, very bright, lenses and good manufacture rings, stunning bokeh effect

Cons: Nobody

Opinion: It 's definitely the best goal I've ever used, I realized the larger part of my photos with the OM-1 including portraits, concerts and reportage; for up under extreme lighting conditions I managed to take pictures with just 200 Digital ASA.rnrnSu I used it just because I have a M4 / 3 system where this becomes a 100mm lens, but still maintains its quality, giving a maximum aperture eccezionale.rnChe bokeh effect really say you must try it if you have one, if you have not you should buy it.

user46920

sent on 10 Dicembre 2015

Pros: Excellent value for money - good sharpness of detail and general risolvenza - dimensions and weights given - build quality - outer ring diaphragms

Cons: Reflex draw - some more obvious aberrations in digital

Opinion: Excellent optical design, the Zuiko 50mm f / 1.8 also works well in macro and perhaps better positioned poured or reverse. As the whole series of Olympus OM Zuiko for the film camera, it is well constructed and convenient to use, especially on the iris ring positioned externally with respect to that of maf-miniaturization and lightness. I use it with a mirrorless APSC and find it perfect as a focal length (75mm), a focal normally difficult to find without going into Leica or looking for some special pattern and rare.

Peterlad

sent on 09 Dicembre 2015

Pros: Very good yield, quality and fluidity of mechanisms, good yield on the macro

Cons: It seems to return a slight dominant magenta, tonal passages not perfect

Opinion: I confirm what has already been said, lens 80 of high quality and that "holds" in risolvenza on digital current. Very pleasant especially on the black and white, while the color, to be picky, suffers a bit 'in the shade and seems to have a slight dominant. Anyway fruibilissimo photo worthy of the best fixed optical digital. Very good for street and ritratti.rn

Dados1

sent on 31 Agosto 2015

Pros: Construction, fluidity ring focus, excellent yield and size

Cons: For me nobody

Opinion: It is built in a fifty jeep, very small, I used with Olympus OMD M10 and Canon 6D.Generalmente yield is great and the resistance to flare much buona.rnUtilizzato for macro images with tubes returns very defined almost similar to an optical macro.Lo advice to those who want a good fifty manual unobtrusive given the size.

Roberto Kravos

sent on 17 Maggio 2013

Pros: Minimum size and weight, from 49 filters, excellent overall yield

Cons: Little delicate in tonal passages

Opinion: The manufacturer says. "Extremely compact and its optical design provides a superb definition for sharp images across the entire frame, with an appreciable reduction of internal reflections." . In fact it is 5 mm shorter and 60 grams lighter than the already small 50 f1, 4. When these parameters were crucial, I preferred it to f1, 4, but did not get the same answer delicate gradation in total. Great in macro, thanks to its optical design symmetrical.