Lunatique
★★★★★
My favorite lens, image quality and extra stops of light are invaluable. Great for video as well.
Date posted : Tuesday, Oct 29 2019
I pair this with my Panasonic G7 and was my first lens after my kit lens. The Image quality is night and day. The extra 2 stops of light from the kit lens is extremely helpful, and 45mm focal length is perfect for portraits or capturing small room events. I'm currently renting the 75mm 1.8 and honestly the 45mm is on par with that lens save the extra focal length (though I've only looked at the images through my camera.Worth the cost. It also works extremely well for video and doesn't make an awkward focusing sound like the 17mm 1.8.Only downside for me is that it's not image stabilized, which hurts on the G7 body but I can't really fault Olympus for that. Buy this lens.
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Taylor Smith
★★★★★
Sharp, fast, quit, so small.
Date posted : Tuesday, Oct 22 2019
can not believe the quality of the pictures I'm getting from such a little lens! The images are crisp, sharp. Focusing is quick and very quiet. Overall build quality is also good. very good. The picture quality rival of the pro-quality lenses, which at $220 makes this lens a steal.
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hiscifi
★★★★★
You probably already know you're going to love it
Date posted : Saturday, Oct 19 2019
You absolutely can't go wrong with this lens. I had been reading great reviews for some time, but I already had the 12-40 PRO, the 25mm and the 75mm. The 75mm, while an amazing lens, is difficult to use inside, where I end up taking most of the photos of my kids, and so it wasn;t getting used enough. The 12-40 is great, but any extra light I can grab is a help indoors with young kids. When I saw the price on the import version of this lens, I figured I had nothing to lose. What an understatement. I've been sold from the very first picture. Nothing that hasn't already been said: small, sharp, fast, light, and a great value. If you're on the fence, take the plunge. I can't imagine anyone who's remotely curious about this lens being anything but thrilled.
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Nate W
★★★★★
You Need One. You Really Do.
Date posted : Saturday, Oct 12 2019
I can barely believe that I got such a HUGELY AMAZING LENS for such a tiny price. The vintage Minolta prime in my kit gives me a similarly luscious bokeh, but this thing features a shorter focal length and has autofocus as well - and to top that off it weighs next to nothing. The little beastie is damned near perfect. I treasure it and I use it constantly. Forget about the Nokton unless you need its extreme speed, and skip the Nocticron unless you have a huge budget. This Zuiko will take your images to exquisite places no matter where you go.
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paige.lyon
★★★★★
Superb Portrait Lens
Date posted : Sunday, Oct 6 2019
This lens is incredible for taking portraits with bokeh effect. I was stunned how professional the pictures of my daughter's graduation portraits turned out. On my Olympus EP-5, it installs and removes easily with a snug fit and has a tank-like metal build. And for the price, it's a bargain. So far, this is my favorite m4/3 lens.
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Ryan W. Chai
★★★★★
great image quality that will spoil you.
Date posted : Saturday, Sep 21 2019
The title says it all. Incredibly sharp lens with a low enough f stop to take photos in relatively low light and retain soft backgrounds when you want them. I'd say that between this and my fisheye (which I decurve in software) I take 80% of my photos. Add my telephoto zoom and my wide normal and you've got everything most people will ever need. Only thing missing is a macro. The kit zoom that came with the camera is used only once in a blue moon because this lens has spoiled me to expect so much more than any of the others, especially that one can deliver.
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Hideaki Morita
★★★★★
Excellent portrait prime lens
Date posted : Friday, Sep 6 2019
I got this to complement the Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro on the E-M1 body. I wasn't satisfied with the amount of DOF control I had with the 12-40, since its DOF was roughly equivalent to f/5.6 for 35mm, and that isn't quite shallow enough to isolate the subject from some backgrounds at certain distances. With the 45mm f/1.8, the DOF is about f/3.5 in 35mm, and that's close enough to f/2.8 visually (I did comparison tests with my 5D Mark III and 24-70mm f/2.8 L II), which is good enough for most of what I shoot. If I need DOF even more shallow than that, I'll just use my Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 with an adapter on the E-M1 (no autofocus though).The 45mm f/1.8 is quite sharp wide-open, and autofocuses just as quickly as the 12-40 Pro, while being very tiny and extremely light. I only use it to shoot wide-open for the shallow DOF look, and due to the focal length being about 90mm in 35mm equivalent, it's too long for most indoor shooting situations unless it's a large space, and you'd have to be quite far from the subject to get the full length figure in the shot, so that means you'd be shooting mostly head/bust/waist length portraits with it. Outdoors, if you are doing typical street style shooting, it'll be too long for a lot of situations, which is why I consider this mainly a specialty lens for portraits. It's not close-focusing so its macro capability is quite limited too.For the purpose it serves, it's an excellent lens at a great price. One of the best bang for the buck in the world of camera lenses.
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Jack
★★★★★
My best purchase, love the Lens
Date posted : Friday, May 31 2019
More than Glad, the perfect lens for the MFT cameras, i own a GF5 from panasonic and the clarity of the pictures is amazing, i was able to shoot, F1.8 with ISO800 indors with just the normal light bulb.Amazing Bokeh effect.Quick focus even with auto (GF5 does the AF on the camera not the lenses)Really small and light weighted, camera bearly notice it.Nice close up, not too wide not to short.Fully recommended for those using MFT cameras.
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