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Olympus 4/3 mount 50 f/2 - worth it?

Started Jan 24, 2018 | Discussions thread
gary payne Senior Member • Posts: 1,026
Re: Bought one, returned it

Well...my Oly 75mm is very nearly as sharp as my Oly 50mm, and I love its compact size and accurate fast focus.  The 75mm bouquet is a bit busier IMO than the 50mm despite the greater magnification.  And it's not useful for macro.  Still, if I didn't have the 50mm the 75mm would be my go - to lens for portraits.  The 40s are a bit short for good stealth-fill-the-frame shots which I like.

In this 75mm shot below...I wish I had taken it wide open instead of f2 because the background is just a little bit busy.  My guess is that the same shot with the Oly 50mm wide open at f2 would have fuzzed that background significantly more.

Nevertheless, I won't part with my 75mm either.

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