This review considers two things: the results obtained with this lens, and the overall quality of the product. In what regards the results, I am very happy, very close focus and high magnification, good color rendition, very sharp, can also be used as regular (not macro) lens with good results.
This is the case if you manage to get a good copy of this lens. I only managed this at the 3rd try. First copy shipped by Amazon.co.uk had small marks both on the outer from element and inside. I returned this for replacement, only to be informed by Amazon that they were out of stock and would be refunded instead. So, I bought it from Amazon.es where it was in stock. When it arrived, there were two larger spots in the rear lens element, which when using small apertures (from f/16) actually showed up in the photo. Was again returned for replacement. Got the new one yesterday, and can't find any faults with it.
It is not clear if it's Olympus' quality control, or if Amazon just re-sells customer returns or b-quality products, but the fact is that it took a few weeks and two returns to get a good copy of the lens. On the other hand, Amazon's return policy is very good, and while a bother to have to go through this, I do feel reassured that I am protected. This was not the case buying an expensive lens from a local dealer - found dust inside the next day from buying, and both dealer and official service refused to replace, instead sending for repair, so now I have a refurbished lens for the price of a new one...
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| Customer Rating | (387) | (259) | (577) | (1284) | (129) |
| Price | £389.99 | £206.10 | £379.99 | £219.00 | £379.00 |
| Sold By | technolove | Amazon.co.uk | Dave's online shop | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.co.uk |
| Item Dimensions | 8.2 x 5.6 x 5.6 cm | 5.7 x 5.7 x 6 cm | 11.65 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm | 8.6 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm | 5.98 x 5.98 x 2.59 cm |
| Item Weight | 185 grams | 128 grams | 423.01 grams | 190 grams | 150 grams |
| Maximum Aperture | f/2.8 | f/22 | f/6.7 | f/4 | 4 millimetres |
| Maximum Focal Length (in millimetre) | 60 millimetres | 30 | 300 | 150 millimetres | 800 |
| Minimum Aperture | 2.8 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 2 |
| Minimum Focal Length (in millimetre) | 60 millimetres | 30 | 75 | 40 millimetres | 80 |
| Model Year | 2012 | 2016 | 2013 | 2011 | — |
| Mounting Type | Micro Four Thirds | Micro Four Thirds | Micro Four Thirds | Micro Four Thirds | Micro Four Thirds |
| Optical Zoom | 2x | 0x | 4x | 3.8x | — |
From the manufacturer
Whether you have an OM-D, PEN or any other compatible advanced camera, you’ll benefit from all that the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) lens system standard has to offer: compact size, lightweight, more shooting freedom, high image quality and ease of use, to name just a few.
Perfect choice for macro and nature shots
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*35mm equivalent.
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Fast aperture for bokeh and contrastThis fixed focal length macro lens has a fast aperture of 1:2.8 that creates shallow depth-of-field and accentuates the contrast between razor-sharp details of your subject and beautiful bokeh effects of the defocused background. |
Creative defocusingTo achieve beautiful circular defocusing, this macro lens leads the light rays orthogonally onto the sensorʼs peripheral areas. The lens optics is designed to eliminate double-line defocusing – a blurred area contoured with dual lines or edges. |
Handy Focus LimiterThis 60mm (120mm*) macro lens features a special focus dial to easily change the focus range (0.19m-0.4m, 0.19m-infinity or 0.4m-infinity) in a 1:1 scale. In addition to this, a display indicates the actual focus distance for more control of your shots. *35mm equivalent. |
Robust constructionBesides being technologically sophisticated, this lens boasts a dust-, splash- and freezeproof body and a special coating for the lens elements. So even in harsh conditions, the resilient construction of this lens gives you reliable, all-terrain photography. |
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Clear imaging: ZERO coatingThe M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm 1:2.8 Macro lens’s advanced ZERO coating ensures additional optical performance with every photo and movie. The vacuum deposition coating technique enables even clearer and higher contrast images due to less reflection and ghosting. |
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2017
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2020
Use of plastics (metal mount) keeps the weight beautifully low: essentially in terms of quality this is an Olympus PRO as it’s fully weather-sealed.
Although designed primarily as a true 1:1 ratio macrophotography lens the 60mm focal length with the 2x m4/3 crop factor make this an excellent prime lens for portrait work as well giving an full-frame equivalent angle of view to a 120mm lens. In that respect it reminds me immensely of the excellent 135mm f/2.8 Olympus Zuiko which was sold for their old 35mm system, only that lens was merely good at f/2.8 and hit its sweet-spot at f/5.6. Pretty typical of lens designs back then.
Autofocus on this modern macro lens is fast, quiet and accurate. A side-switch helps with that by limiting the focus-range to what you choose so the lens does not have to hunt all the way from infinity.
Many other reviewers criticise the lack of a lens hood. As this is sold as a macro lens, it doesn’t include one, nor is there a lens bag included. But if you’re going to use it as a macro lens then it won’t be in a bag but mounted onto your camera. A lens hood could also shade the subject you’re shooting from available light and get in the way of close-focussing distances, and would definitely stop you fitting a macro-flash or ring-flash to the end of the lens. So not including those items keeps the overall cost down a bit for those who may never use those items.
Personally, I’d still prefer a storage bag as they cost peanuts to make. The lens hood is easily addressed as well: buy the genuine Olympus item, which is a rigid hood with a nice feature of sliding back over the lens body when not needed (just like on the 40-150mm PRO), or buy the cheap alternative suggested by Amazon which does the same exact job including the slide function for a fifth of the price of the Olympus version. It doesn’t slide as smoothly and definitely feels cheaper, but so what. It works and is cheap enough that you’re not going to worry about damaging or losing it (there are small corners of many foreign fields which may forever contain lens hoods I’ve lost...).
Overall, I honestly wish that Olympus would take the bold step of making the rest of their PRO range of good quality plastics and composites like this lens: the benefits of having a compact micro Four-Thirds system are greatly reduced when the best Olympus lenses for the system are mostly so darned heavy. Being so small and lightweight this lens also makes great sense on my reserve m4/3 body, the Pen F, as that’s a lighter and more compact model than my two e-M1 mk2 bodies.
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If you only buy one prime lens, make it this one.
By Robsteriark on 3 April 2020
Fast maximum aperture and very sharp. More importantly, image quality at f/2.8 is fully usable. See attached photos taken on this lens.By Robsteriark on 3 April 2020
Use of plastics (metal mount) keeps the weight beautifully low: essentially in terms of quality this is an Olympus PRO as it’s fully weather-sealed.
Although designed primarily as a true 1:1 ratio macrophotography lens the 60mm focal length with the 2x m4/3 crop factor make this an excellent prime lens for portrait work as well giving an full-frame equivalent angle of view to a 120mm lens. In that respect it reminds me immensely of the excellent 135mm f/2.8 Olympus Zuiko which was sold for their old 35mm system, only that lens was merely good at f/2.8 and hit its sweet-spot at f/5.6. Pretty typical of lens designs back then.
Autofocus on this modern macro lens is fast, quiet and accurate. A side-switch helps with that by limiting the focus-range to what you choose so the lens does not have to hunt all the way from infinity.
Many other reviewers criticise the lack of a lens hood. As this is sold as a macro lens, it doesn’t include one, nor is there a lens bag included. But if you’re going to use it as a macro lens then it won’t be in a bag but mounted onto your camera. A lens hood could also shade the subject you’re shooting from available light and get in the way of close-focussing distances, and would definitely stop you fitting a macro-flash or ring-flash to the end of the lens. So not including those items keeps the overall cost down a bit for those who may never use those items.
Personally, I’d still prefer a storage bag as they cost peanuts to make. The lens hood is easily addressed as well: buy the genuine Olympus item, which is a rigid hood with a nice feature of sliding back over the lens body when not needed (just like on the 40-150mm PRO), or buy the cheap alternative suggested by Amazon which does the same exact job including the slide function for a fifth of the price of the Olympus version. It doesn’t slide as smoothly and definitely feels cheaper, but so what. It works and is cheap enough that you’re not going to worry about damaging or losing it (there are small corners of many foreign fields which may forever contain lens hoods I’ve lost...).
Overall, I honestly wish that Olympus would take the bold step of making the rest of their PRO range of good quality plastics and composites like this lens: the benefits of having a compact micro Four-Thirds system are greatly reduced when the best Olympus lenses for the system are mostly so darned heavy. Being so small and lightweight this lens also makes great sense on my reserve m4/3 body, the Pen F, as that’s a lighter and more compact model than my two e-M1 mk2 bodies.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2015
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Returned due to particles under rear lens element
By AbyssalPlain on 3 May 2015
A cautionary note. I had to return the first of these lenses (Made in Vietnam) because of one large foreign object (white flake) and a fabric strand trapped under the rear lens element. This suggests wasn't assembled in a clean room and that standards aren't the same as when they were made in Japan.
By AbyssalPlain on 3 May 2015
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2020
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2018
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2019
Also tried it as a telephoto for handheld pictures of the moon...yes really and it looks pretty impressive
Light as a feather so you can add it to your kit and you won't even notice (185g). Absolute bargain of a lens at under 300gbp
It looks a bit like a toy lens as it's so small :)
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Bargain, light and quality
By MFT photographer on 13 September 2019
First impression are very good. Good in low light for macro as it's fast at 2.8. Pretty slow auto focus, though this isn't a big problem. With the OMD EM1 Mk2 the stabilisation is superb even at lo shutter speeds (down to 1/10 handheld !By MFT photographer on 13 September 2019
Also tried it as a telephoto for handheld pictures of the moon...yes really and it looks pretty impressive
Light as a feather so you can add it to your kit and you won't even notice (185g). Absolute bargain of a lens at under 300gbp
It looks a bit like a toy lens as it's so small :)
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