{"id":1157,"date":"2012-08-16T05:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T10:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:25:31","slug":"olympus-75mm-f1-8-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/olympus-75mm-f1-8-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 &#8211; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My full review of the 75mm f\/1.8 is now up. <a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/review-olympus-m-zuiko-75mm-f1-8-ed-msc\/\">Head over there<\/a> to take a look!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 arrived into the Admiring Light studios (i.e, my hands) yesterday. Took it for a short test spin, and it is quite the impressive optic, so far. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it&#8217;s darn, darn good. The lens is well built and feels great in the hand, and autofocus is very fast. I was even able to use C-AF to pretty good effect with this lens. Bokeh is nice and the images are quite sharp. I&#8217;ll be posting my full in-depth review in the coming week or two.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out my reviews of other Olympus prime lenses for Micro 4\/3&#8230;the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/olympus-m-zuiko-12mm-f2-review\/\">12mm f\/2 <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/olympus-m-zuiko-45mm-f1-8-review\/\">45mm f\/1.8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few quick samples:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1158\" style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flowers_oly75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1158\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flowers_oly75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flowers_oly75.jpg 579w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/flowers_oly75-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink and Green &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 @ f\/1.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chloe_fork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1159\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chloe_fork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chloe_fork.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chloe_fork-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympus E-M5 with Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 @ f\/1.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1160\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_oly75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1160\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_oly75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_oly75.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_oly75-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivy &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 @ f\/4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1161\" style=\"width: 672px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_corner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1161\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_corner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_corner.jpg 672w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ivy_corner-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100% Extreme Corner Crop of above image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1162\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/girl_oly75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1162\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/girl_oly75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/girl_oly75.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/girl_oly75-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 @ f\/1.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1167\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120818-233318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1167\" title=\"oly75\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120818-233318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120818-233318.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120818-233318-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smile &#8211; Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 @ f\/1.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My full review of the 75mm f\/1.8 is now up. Head over there to take a look! The Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 arrived into the Admiring Light studios (i.e, my hands) yesterday. Took it for a short test spin, and it is quite the impressive optic, so far. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it&#8217;s darn, darn good. 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