Driver for Olympus Digital Camera M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm F1.8 Lens

In-depth tests and reviews for the Olympus DIGITAL 17mm f a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles. The Olympus Digital 17mm f/ lens is a swift-aperture 34mm equivalent prime lens for micro four thirds (MFT) cameras. The lens's wide 34mm. For this review, the Olympus 17mm f was mated to my Olympus OM-D E-M5. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA. Besides the image quality.

The size of the lens belies its complexity - its optical architecture is made up of a concoction of 9 elements in 6 groups, including 1 high refractive and 3 aspherical elements with a Dual Super aspherical element.

The diaphragm is made up of 7 rounded elements to provide pleasing out-of-focus results. There are no switches or control surfaces on the lens other than the focus ring - all lens functions are controlled by the camera.

The focus ring is an interesting design element of the lens, and we first saw this design on the Olympus 12mm m. The ring can be pulled backward from its default configuration to enter a manual focusing mode, which exposes a distance scale in feet and meters; a distance scale is omnipresent, but isn't of much use unless you pull the focus ring back to display the distance scale.

There is no infrared index. The operation of the focus ring deserves a bit of explanation.

Olympus 17mm f/ Digital Review

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The build quality is solid thanks to a metal lens barrel, and it's easy to switch between manual focus and autofocus. There's also no weather sealing, so your dust- and splash-proof OM-D E-M5 won't be completely protected when this lens is attached.

Despite these quibbles, the lens is a worthy addition to any Micro Four Thirds camera kit. It earns our Editors' Choice for wide-angle lenses for mirrorless cameras.

When mated to my OM-D in good to decent light, it really is instantaneous. Pick an autofocus point and it feels like autofocus confirmation is made before your finger even makes it to the bottom of your half-shutter-press.

Just tap the screen and BOOM, autofocus locked, shutter fired and picture taken all in what feels like a fraction of a second. It almost feels like cheating.

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8

But, like with any other lens mated to a camera with contrast autofocus, when the light goes down, your autofocus time goes up. Even so, the autofocus works well in low light and I rarely received an autofocus error or missed focus. If having the fastest autofocus speed possible is paramount to you, you should seriously take a look at this lens and maybe a few others like the Olympus 12mm f2 and the Panasonic-Leica 25mm f1.

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• Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f1.8
• Pros and Cons

Ease of Use This lens is pretty darn easy to use. Slap it onto one of your Micro Four Thirds bodies and start shooting.

Image Quality I found overall image quality to be very good.