Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 25 mm F1.8 Lens, Fast Fixed Focal Length, Suitable for All MFT Cameras (Olympus OM-D & PEN Models, Panasonic G-Series), Black

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This is a very personal perference, I have mentioned I am a 50mm perspective shooter, hence I am leaning toward the new M. It doesn't cost you anything extra when you use these links, but it does support the site, helping keep ePHOTOzine free to use, thank you. All lenses (not just Olympus) will suffer chromatic aberration to some degree, and Olympus lenses always have very minimal problem.

The colors and contrast delivered are so good and punchy that sometimes I don’t even do any post processing on the images.Just dig around my archive for the past 3-4 years of me shooting with Olympus system, in fact a handful of my blog readers commented that I had too shallow of depth of field and they would have preferred if some of my shots had been stopped down a little more to have more area in focus! In a first for Olympus, outside of their ‘Pro’ line, they finally include a lens hood with the package. Following the six-month deferral period, Novuna Personal Finance will initiate a monthly direct debit payment for the remaining duration of the loan. One can use this lens for street, food, portraits, animal, fashion, product and almost all types of photography. When I compare the output at 17mm, I am hard pressed to find a substantial difference between the Pro and 17mm 1.

Unless I know the photographer or friend, observing his shooting style and his preferences, I would usually answer by saying do your own experimentation (with the kit lens if you must) and find out which focal length (25mm vs 17mm) works for you better. Great images, tack sharp, with very little aberrations even wide open, and what is there is completely negligible.With a 25mm focal length and 47 degree angle of view, this lens sits right between wide and telephoto designs, making it a great choice as an all-around lens for your photography.

Whenever possible I did my best to highlight the shallow depth of field rendering of the open wide F1.Which is fine, it means even with the Pro I almost never needed a neutral density filter while shooting. I care how a lens works under those constraints…how it reacts to processing, how it holds up under regular conditions.