Zuiko lenses are compatible with the entire range of Olympus PEN and OM-D cameras as well as other MFT cameras. Premium line have Pro versions now with weather sealing and faster apertures – such as the Olympus 25mm f/1.

The focal length of the 75mm pushed me back from the budding romance developing in front of us, but the autofocus was so far improved over the Panasonic 20mm that I was able to capture that romance instead of being a sole witness.I love this lens and its wonderful rendering of colours and clearness of details, which make fotos nearly 3-dimensional. Or maybe it was the superior subject isolation, rendering of super shallow depth of field, throwing the unwanted background into complete blur. I am the one who dubbed it “X-Slow 1” in my review and I am not the only one who had issues with that camera.

It was really designed to pair well with Olympus’ JPEG engine, which is one of the best in the business.I just spent a week shooting a DSLR and it was 3X the size, 4X the weight, not any faster and my images did not look any better than what I get from my OM-D. The trick in using longer focal length when shooting, is to look further ahead, spotting your subjects from a distance, and plan accordingly as you approach your subject. There is no distance scale – hence no depth-of-field marks either –, focus limiter or in-lens image stabilisation on board. I am strongly considering the OM-D EM-5 (with the Olympus primes and possibly the 12-50 kit lens, but am disturbed by one comment regarding focusing on a model walking slowing towards the camera…, i.