Olympus 45mm f/1.8 Silver or Black?

It is not a big decision. I your case I would get the silver (unless the black version is cheaper). I have black 45 and 17 but a silver 12 and a black body. The black 12mm had a premium price at the time and wasn't worth the extra.

Mark

I have the silver one on a black EM1 and it looks terrible, but I'm not into how it appears rather how it performs. My humble advice- find a cheap used one regardless of color. It's a great lens for the money.

Pitchertaker said:

Hello one and all:

Going to acquire the excellent Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens to complete my little EM-1 kit that includes a 12mm f/2 and 17mm f/1.8 and would like opinions on whether silver or black would be your preference and why. My body is silver and other two lenses are silver as well.

Thanks for all your opinions

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The good thing about the silver body.
It looks good in both silver and black.

on the block body. Only the black lens looks good.
this is my personal preference.

Never the less. you will love the lens.

Robert Evagelista said:

Pitchertaker said:

Hello one and all:

Going to acquire the excellent Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens to complete my little EM-1 kit that includes a 12mm f/2 and 17mm f/1.8 and would like opinions on whether silver or black would be your preference and why. My body is silver and other two lenses are silver as well.

Thanks for all your opinions

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The good thing about the silver body.
It looks good in both silver and black.

on the block body. Only the black lens looks good.
this is my personal preference.

Never the less. you will love the lens.
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/9704169684/albums/45mm-1-8

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In this case I think aesthetic taste will overrule desire for thrift. Agree with you about black on black so it's going to be the silver.

Thanks for sharing a sample of your excellent images. #8 is my personal favorite. I own the hat worn in image #14 and laughed seeing it; I've have never seen anyone else with one. A friend of mind tells me it reminds him of a Russian Orthodox prelate but theirs are stiff and bright black whereas mine is soft and muted.

Pitchertaker said:

Hello one and all:

Going to acquire the excellent Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens to complete my little EM-1 kit (..) and would like opinions on whether silver or black would be your preference and why.

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To be used on any silver OM-Ds, the silver version of the Olympus lenses from 12mm to 75mm are really, really sexy...

I have a silver E-M5 and the one silver lens I had was the 75-300. The lens had a distinctly different silver color. I don't know how well the silver 45mm would match your camera body. Different silver camera bodies also appear to have a different silver color.

I can say that because there is also quite a bit of black on the silver camera body black lenses look great also on the silver body.

I went black with my 45mm (first lens I bought a few years ago!) because I thought silver plastic might look a little cheap... But then again, I eventually bought a 42.5/1.7 in silver (for the closer focusing distance and OIS).

There's a cool screw in metal hood on Amazon that probably matches better with the silver, I like it because the diameter is smaller than the OEM and it's copies, basically the same size as the lens.

I've gotten most of my lenses in silver since then, including the 12mm, 20mm, 12-32mm... Oddly I bought the larger ones in black mostly, the 7.5 fisheye because I heard the silver one's paint on the hood would chip easily, the 35-100 on a whim, and the 9-18 only comes in black.

I was gonna do primes or wides in one color originally and zooms or teles in the other but just ended up with a mix; I guess the three lenses I use most during daytime are black so there's that.

Your camera is silver and the other 2 lenses are silver and I'm not sure why one would break that trend with the 45mm acquisition....

But I on the other hand have one silver lens, only because I traded and I got the better end of the deal and didn't care the color. The rest are black. One would assume the only real benefit is that silver would look different and make one feel "special" shooting, or it is tick "cooler" in really hot weather. Silver probably is meant to look like old retro "metal mounts and lenses". But outside of Canon's white "sport and long" lenses, and a white Sony or 2 (also long) the rest of the camera lens world is black.

But for you, I'd get silver because the optics and camera aren't going to look at the barrel color.