Olympus 25mm 1:1 – A gem of a lens

This is the first prime lens i have ever bought.

Great lens just don’t pay this price you can get it for £179 on ebay.

Sharp, contrasty, punchy lens with great colour rendition, even wide open and in poor light. These latter attributes are what sets it apart from my m. 6 ez zoom, which can take great pictures stopped down a couple in good light, but looks slightly softer and less contrasty wide open in lower light. Ca, distortion and vignetting are negligible, focusing fast and accurate, and manual focusing smooth. Build quality is superb for the price (£250 in my case), and the lens is tiny and light for the iq. The silver looks great on a silver omd em10 mkii. If you only buy one non-pro prime for an omd, this must be it; you can take great pictures right down to dusk and in artificial light without flash, especially with olympus ibis.

Optically about as good as you are going to get in this particular class of lens.

An essential lens; every photographer needs a 50mm. This lens delivers the signature olympus look. Small, light and very sharp.

This is one of my more recent olympus lens purchases, fitting into my bag alongside the 17. While those lenses have there merits, this is perhaps the optimum leave on the camera prime lens for the system. Optical quality appears excellent (i am not looking at test charts) with those small details captured crisply (eye lashes in a portrait for example), very similar sharpness to the well respected 45mm. I tend to shoot wide open, the wide 1. 8 aperture lets in plenty of light for indoor shooting when you want to avoid using flash. The focal length is a good multipurpose angle of view. Longer is ideal for frame filling headshots (45mm or 75mm are better perhaps) but this length works well, albeit you have to stand a little closer, closer than ideal. For group shots, or full length portraits this length is perfect. For street photography it is a toss up between this lens and the 17.

I also got a vintage nikon at the same time. This modern auto-focusing gem way out performs it.

Wow, only received this little beauty today at my works place, first of all amazon delivered my order once again on time next day delivery, superb service thank you amazon team. So i purchased this little gem of the back of all the great reviews , as soon as i got home tonight i popped it on to my olympus e-m5 mk2. I was at first surprised how small the lens is but its well built and has a metal mount so it all looks good. I do a lot of flower photography so i went straight into my garden and did a few test shots. I have to say i am blown away, lovely dof, crisp sharp contrasty images which what i was looking for , i have uploaded a couple of shots for you to see for yourself, i really think i am going to enjoy using this little gem.

This lens makes such a difference to the quality and performance of the dji inspire 1 with the x5 camera. It produces far sharper images than the stock lens, and the focal length is perfect. I thoroughly recommend this lens to anyone with an x5. When funds pick up again, i’m thinking of getting the range of olympus prime mft lenses.

In one word, ‘wow’ you have to get this lens, it’s just awsome.

You can’t go wrong with the 25mm if you like portraiture or need to do any kind of close-up product photography. In my experience this is much more convenient than the 45mm due to the wider angle. With a little patience and time getting used to the 25mm, you won’t miss your zoom lens.

Nice 50 mm equivalentexcellent bokeh at large apertures.

This is without a shadow of doubt one of my favourite micro four thirds lenses as it takes beautiful photos which are very sharp and detailed and i use it alot for taking pictures of flowers but also for other types of shots as well. Its 25mm focal length makes it also an ideal walkabout general purpose lens as well so you are guaranteed to get good shots in most situations and its max 1. 8 aperture allows for taking pics with really nice bokeh. The build of the lens is also great as it is solid and well constructed and it looks great with the silver metallic finish. So if you own a mft camera and are looking for a standard prime lens which is reasonably priced then this is definitely one to consider.

A great lens with really quick focus. Has certainly helped capture moments otherwise lost in focusing of other lenses.

This is my favorite lens and has been stuck on em5 since mounted it. Excellent lens for street photography and even portraits. It is sharp wide open, excellent bokeh and renders colours great. Auto focus is lightning fast.

Very sharp and great for portraits.

I put it on my om-d 5 a couple of months ago and haven’t taken it off since. It is light, unobtrusive, fast to focus and the images are crisp. Good for a whole range of photography, but i love it for street work, replacing my panasonic 20mm pancake lens.

Bought it to go on a panasonic lumix g5 after lots of research into 50mm equivalent lenses. I have used it plenty as it is a superlight lens that is ideal for photographing wandering about sorts of situations, maybe urban street shots or outdoor parties where you can use your legs to get the right subjects in the right place in the frame. What it is absolutely magic for is dusk to darkness shots – it seems to be able to focus when a lot of other lenses would have given up and i have taken some amazing shots without flash in near darkness or where there is only street lighting.

The amazon entry for this gives all the rechnical detail, but two items are worth underlining. The lens focuses down to 25 cm, which is very useful and a lens hood comes with the lens, something that olympus should really do with all its lenses, if nothing else it protects the lens from my fingers. This focal length provides an angle of view approximating to the human eye and therefore gives images with a natural feeling of perspective. It is therefore an excellent general purpose lens for many purposes, from taking reference shots for painters to naturalistic townscapes or landscapes in their own right. The wide maximum aperture can be used for both low light and focus seperation. It can be used for some portraiture, but the perspective provided by its 45mm twin is more flattering to the subject. While it doesn’t have built in image stabilisation, the focal length is such that this will not matter for the majority of the photos taken with it. For those who havn’t read the reviews, it provides crisp, sharp images that should satisfy most users. The lens goes nicely with both my ‘pens’, panny g5 and omd m5, both cosmetically and balance and is likely to be a fairly permanent fixture on a body. It won’t make you a better photographer or transform your life, but it gives many of us a lens that we will use a lot and help us produce the best that our individual skills will allow.

Reviews from purchasers :

• A gem of a lens
• Great IQ and value, difficult to fault.
• A perfect match

Fantastic lens and a perfect match, aesthetically and in terms of results for my pen f camera. I recently used this combination in a low-light situation and was very impressed with the results. The lens produced sharp and detailed images. Disappointment with the 17mm made me a little hesitant to purchase but i needn’t have worried, it’s a great lens.

I bought this to replace the kit lens that came with the olympus em10: the 25mm is a worthy upgrade, and produces clear, sharp and vibrant images (far more so than the kit lens). Comparable to a 50mm focal length on a full-frame, the 25mm is a great compromise for multi-purpose use. It handles landscapes reasonably well – though obviously shots can be quite tight. It’s particularly good for portraits and close-up work: open wide at 1. 8 makes for lots of light; bokeh, too. I’ve had mine for just over 6 months now and haven’t taken it off the camera: no complaints from me yet. At some point i know i’m going to want a wider angle prime, but it’s going to have to work hard to match this for size, quality and ease of use. Micro four thirds gear can be a bit hit and miss, especially if you’re used to dslrs. This kind of lens, in my opinion, is what makes mft worth the investment.

This is now the lens that i leave on my camera when i put it away in my camera bag – really enjoying having to think more about positioning and composition rather than zooming. And of course, the added benefit of that large aperture. Lovely narrow depth of field, and beautiful bokeh (out of focus highlights) that are perfectly round and wonderfully soft.

It`s fast, no chromatic aberration, no vignette and it`s sharp corner to corner. I purchase this lens for professional video shooting bus i just don`t achieve that deep of field i as looking for. So i trade it for the sigma art 30mm.

Just getting into primes, and bought this lovely lens to go with my gh4. Will stop buying now, cause ive all bases covered, and i realise i’ve got an addiction to these little jewels. So the olympus lenses are very sharp and pretty fast. This was written four years ago, and ive continued purchasing lenses. Imo this lens is overpriced and sterile in its image rendition. Ive become more discriminating in what i require from a lens. This lens is definately lacking in character. 25mm lenses are very boring and i would not recommend anyone buying this.

This is a great partner for lenses like the olympus 45mm f1. 8 or other tiny olympus prime lenses for micro four thirds cameras. It’s really tiny, but feels solid and very well made, with a truly silky focus ring. For once (thank you olympus) it comes with a bayonet fit plastic lens hood. You have to take the trim ring off the front of the lens though. Will i ever find that again?equivalent to 50mm in 35mm terms, this is what used to be called a ‘standard’ lens. It’s a lens that is neither wide angle nor telephoto, and gives what some people describe as a ‘natural’ angle of view. You are aware that the view you get is very much like the view you see with your eyes. In that sense, it’s suitable for most general scenes, but you have to be more creative to make shots interesting as a result.

Performs like all zuiko lenses, perfectly.

It seems (very sadly) that olympus (and panasonic, for that matter) are pricing their m43 lenses on the basis of ‘what’s the highest price we can possibly charge for this’. The opportunity is there for them to use the inherent size advantage of m43 to produce lenses more cheaply than the competition, and to make the whole system more appealing as a result. But they have decided to just go profiteering instead. I own this lens and am pleased with the quality. The quality per unit price might not be quite so bad (it’s still not brilliant when you consider that the canon 50mm f/1. 8 at £80 is a decent lens), but when you look at what you are actually getting here – a tiny plastic lens with tiny cheap elements – it is a rip off. By comparison, on m43, the sigma 30mm f/2. 8 – and yes, it’s slower, i know – is one third of the price. You can buy a entire canon eos 1200d kit, with camera body, battery, charger, strap, cables, stabilised lens, the works – all for the price of this cheap plastic lens from olympus.

I made a mistake buying this lense,should’ve have given it more thought.

Fantastic, used before other cheaper popular alternative brand equivalent (25mm f1. 7) and it was back focusing constantly so i got this instead and on my oly e-m5ii it’s perfect: focusing + clarity/sharpness is spot on each time. Oly+oly = perfect marriage rather than pana + oly (that’s when i got inconsistent and ‘not quite there’ results before).

An excellent, versatile lens which is constantly in my bag. It is particularly useful for my favourite subject of street photography; i can confidently rely on the sharpness and accurate focus, which is so important when you have to set up and fire the shutter very rapidly.

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