Olympus announces the new 75mm f/1.8 lens. Fuji the new M mount adapter!
UPDATE: You can right now preorder the lens at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Today Olympus announced the new 75mm f/1.8 lens ($899). You can read all about the lens at Dpreview, Systemkameraforum (german), Full Lens PDF at Olympus Australia and Image samples at Olympus Japan. A great but also a bit expensive lens (compared to the 45mm f/1.8).
And Fuji just released the new M mount adapter you can already preorder at Adorama (Click here).
What’s coming next are 1) Panasonic G5 announcement 2) Samyang X lens announcement and 3) Canon announcement. Stay tuned!
Sahaja
12 months ago |Sony should make a “smart” M-mount adapter for the NEX like this Fuji one for the XPro.
This 75mm 1.8 from Olympus looks nice too – though many people will say 150mm equivalent is too long for portraits, I always found 135mm and 180mm great for portraits on 35mm SLRs – this sits right between the two.
Harold GLIT
12 months ago |Olympus does it again : an expensive lens with NO hood . Shame on Olympus . I guess that it is going to make it a $1,000 lens . and of course no weather sealing either
T-L
12 months ago |Well, you won’t need a hood or sealing.. officially, it is an INDOOR lens..
Sergio
12 months ago |Now if I could pre-order a firmware fix giving me some acceptable method of manual focus with that adapter they might be able to sell it to me.
Camaman
12 months ago |I am still waiting for the FF equivalence Gastapo to show up…
Breen
12 months ago |Buahaha, that was a good one.
Pei
12 months ago |Maybe you should just let the chip on your shoulder fall and take some picture instead of trying to convince people m4/3 > FF.
ronnbot
12 months ago |Pei: Didn’t sound like Camaman was “trying to convince people m4/3 > FF”. Maybe you should take some picture instead of overreacting, lol.
I’m also somewhat surprised noone has said, “but wait, it’s only equivalent to 150/3.8″.
Anyway, 75/1.8 seems like it’ll be one heck of a lens. Kind of out of my price range, at least for now.
T-L
12 months ago |but wait, it’s only equivalent to 150/3.5!
Oh, come on, how can I shoot portraits with that HUGE depth of field?!?
neeming
12 months ago |It appears to be a great lines. But I have a more fundamental question concerning the m4/3 lenses. Just compare this Olympus 75mm/1.8 with a full frame 85mm/1.8 (say Nikon). They are quite close in size and weight! (64x69mm versus 75x59mm).
Now, before you get into the “equivalence” business, look at this from just the physics (optics) point of view. 75mm/1.8 for 4/3 is optically the same as 75mm/1.8 in full frame except that the former covers only about a quarter of the image size. You would naturally expect that 75mm/1.8 for 4/3 to be much much smaller (and of course cheaper because it would simply use much less materials to make). But this is not the case here.
I know some of you will argue that 75mm for 4/3 is actually an equivalent 150mm for frame lens. But that is just a subjective perspective (i.e., a 4/3 lens appears longer merely because it is smaller and covers a smaller area on the sensor), not physics. I’m not saying that the perspective is not important or meaningful, but using that to justify the unnecessarily big size of a 4/3 lens is like rear-ending itself.
Also, I did not mean to knock down the 4/3 format. I’m just curious. The size effect does show up in some other lenses, but somehow not in this lens. Perhaps Olympus used the size advantage to trade for better optical quality in this particular case. After all, they did seem to take the optical performance a priority for this lens. If that’s true, it would be great to know.
ronnbot
12 months ago |Seems like Oly overly engineered the lens to have high optical performance. It has 10 elements in 9 groups with 3 extra-low dispersion and 2 high refractive index glass elements. A Canon 85/1.8 has 9 elements in 7 group with a conventional design. It doesn’t have good edge sharpness and needs to be stopped down to f/4 the edges to have similar sharpness as the center. As for the Oly 75/1.8, no reviews yet obviously, but below is what dpreview said on their preview:
“the early shots we took with the lens have showed really impressive levels of sharpness at the point of focus. There’s a pleasant transition to out-of-focus regions and smooth bokeh with only a hint of the axial chromatic aberration you’d expect on a lens like this.”