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Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens
List Price : $599.00 Price :
Product Description
The Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 ED Macro Lens features a closest focusing distance of 7.4 inches, 1x magnification, and dust/splash-proof construction. It incorporates 13 lens elements in 10 groups with ED, HR and E-HR elements to eliminate chromatic aberrations. It also incorporates Olympus' exclusive MSC (Movie & Still Compatible) mechanism, which is based on a floating-type inner focusing system with three drive systems resulting in no change in the overall lens length during autofocusing.
- A prime lens with a fixed focal length of 60mm designed for sharp close-up shooting
- The wide, fast f/2.8 aperture creates a shallow depth of field wide open and improves image quality in low-light conditions
- The ED (extra-low dispersion) glass element reduces chromatic aberrations for greater accuracy in your images
- The lens is Movie & Still Compatible (MSC), with near-silent focusing allowing it to be used for video as well as still image capture
Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens Reviews
Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens Reviews
| 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful  A great little (and I do mean *little*) macro lens, By This review is from: Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens (Electronics) This is a fantastic micro 4/3 successor to Olympus' impressive but now dated 50mm f/2.0 macro lens for 4/3 cameras. Small, light, and fast to focus, it handles well on all the micro 4/3 bodies I could find to test it on. It produces sharp images with little distortion and smooth, circular bokeh in out-of-focus parts of the frame. Unlike all other macro lenses currently available for the system, this lens is fully weather sealed -- put it on a weather-sealed micro 4/3 camera, and you're ready for the outdoors.As to features, it's got a focus limiter switch (although it's a bit tricky to use with gloves on), a scale showing your macro magnification and focusing distance, and can be set at the lens to a 1:1 macro magnification. Oh, and it's got a video-rated focusing motor, so you won't hear the lens focusing in your movies. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful Several advantages over the Panasonic 45mm macro (Leica), By Tom North "TomN" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens (Electronics) Let me concur with E. Seale's beautifully stated review and add a few notes. I have a resolution test montage consisting of several sets of lines per mm charts (edges and center) as well as textural fabrics and other objects. After stepping through f2.8 to f11 and allowing for some bit of tester error (me) the proper conclusion is that it is a tie between the Olympus 60mm macro and the Panasonic 45mm macro (Leica). If I were to totally trust my set up the nod would go to the Olympus 60mm. (BTW centers of both compared well with the Olympus 75mm f1.8, extreme edges of the 75mm are definitely sharper.)Another consideration is the lack of image stabilization on the Olympus macro lens. After shooting the same test subject with shutter speeds from 1/25th down to 1/5th of a second (bad), there appears to be some advantage for the 45mm around the 25th of a second. Not a very well controlled test, sorry, and very difficult to actually measure. A quick trip to the... Read more 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful A wonder lens for macro and portrait, By This review is from: Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 Lens (Electronics) I used the Olympus E-system since 2006 owning the E-500, E-30 and OM-D E-M5. I also have both Zuiko Digital 50mm f2 and 35mm f3.5 since I do plenty of macro works. Most of my macro shots are taken in the field with minimal intrusion to the subjects, usually insects and spiders.My years of experience using the 4/3 macro lenses are generally very pleasing. I use autofocus most of the time except when I couple the 50mm with EX-25 which often causes erratic autofocus in dim light. It is also gives only 1:2 magnification but I use it often because it is significantly sharper than the 35mm. So I was wondering if there is a sharp macro lens with a comfortable working distance than can do 1:1 and functions well in autofocus. Enter the M.ZD 60mm. The autofocus works very fine on the OM-D although sometimes the AF box tend to hit at the wrong area causing a slight misfocus when the box covers something curvy. Not really a big deal as manual focus is quite easy to use with... Read more |
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