Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro Lens Review.
The Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro was one of the very first Four Thirds system lenses, announced along with the launch of the E-1 back in June 2003. With an unusually fast maximum aperture for a macro lens, it’s described as a dual purpose optic also suitable for portraits; indeed it’s the closest to a classic portrait prime Olympus currently produces. The optical design is suitably complex for a macro lens, with 11 elements in 10 groups including 1 ED glass element, and includes a floating focus system for optimum correction across the entire distance range. This enables a minimum focus distance of 0.2m, giving a 1:2 (0.5x) maximum magnification, which translates to an image area similar to that obtained using a 1:1 macro lens on the 35mm full-frame format.
The lens incorporates Olympus’s ‘focus-by-wire’ system, whereby the manual focus ring is used to drive the lens’s AF motor electronically (as opposed to being mechanically coupled to the focus unit).
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