OM System 75mm f/1.8 Black Metal Body Portrait Lens

The OM System 75mm f/1.8 lens is a premium portrait lens designed specifically for the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) system, offering users a combination of high optical quality and compact, durable construction. It's particularly aimed at portrait photographers and videographers who demand crisp, clear images with beautiful background blur (bokeh). This lens is compatible with cameras that use the Micro Four Thirds mount. MFT systems are known for their compact size, and this lens complements that by providing high-quality imaging in a smaller, lighter package compared to DSLR camera systems. The wide aperture of f/1.8 allows for excellent performance in low-light conditions and provides a shallow depth of field, enabling users to isolate subjects from their background with beautiful bokeh. The aperture can be stopped down to f/22 for enhanced depth of field and sharpness across the entire image. On an MFT camera, the 75mm focal length is ideal for portrait photography, offering a flattering perspective and working distance for subjects. It's equivalent to a 150mm lens on a full-frame camera, putting it into the telephoto range and further enhancing its suitability for portraits.

The optical construction is composed of three extra-low dispersion elements these specialized elements help to reduce chromatic aberrations and color fringing, ensuring high clarity and color fidelity across the entire image. This feature is essential for capturing high-detail portraits with accurate skin tones and vibrant colors. specialized elements help to reduce chromatic aberrations and color fringing, ensuring high clarity and color fidelity across the entire image. This feature is essential for capturing high-detail portraits with accurate skin tones and vibrant colors. The autofocus system is optimized for both video and still photography, providing smooth, quick, and precise focusing without the noisy operation that can disturb video recording. Two High Refractive Index Elements  work in conjunction with the extra-low dispersion glass to minimize common lens aberrations, resulting in enhanced sharpness and contrast.

The Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical coating is applied to the lens elements to reduce lens flare and ghosting, ensuring clear images even when shooting in challenging lighting conditions. The aperture blades form a nearly circular shape, contributing to a pleasing out-of-focus quality when employing shallow depth of field or selective focus techniques. This feature is particularly beneficial for achieving beautiful bokeh in portraits.

Product Features in Detail

M. ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75MM F1.8 AT A GLANCE
The 75mm f1.8 is a high-grade, fast aperture portrait lens featuring metallic construction and a light weight of just 10.7 oz. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of 150mm, it is ideally suited for studio portraits, theatre stage, and indoor sports photography. A large, bright 50mm front lens element compliments a sophisticated optical design of 10 individual lens elements in 9 groups, including a total of 3 ED lenses and 2 HR lenses. Its large f1.8 maximum aperture captures clear, sharp images when the lights are low, while its MSC (Movie and Still Compatible) AF drive assures fast and nearly silent focusing.

PRISTINE PRIMES
M.Zuiko prime lenses feature fixed focal lengths ranging from the 12mm F1.8 lens that's optimized for landscapes to the 75mm F1.8, a perfect portrait lens.

Built For Beautiful Bokeh
Photographers who shoot a lot of portraits and still-lives are always seeking excellent bokeh. Thanks to its large f1.8 aperture and 9 bladecircular aperture, the 75mm f1.8 is especially well suited to capture the combination of a tack-sharp subject and beautifully soft, defocused background that exemplifies bokeh.

Quiet Autofocus
The inclusion of the Movie & Still Compatible (MSC) mechanism provides amazingly fast – and nearly silent – autofocus operation. You’ll really notice the benefit when you play back your HD video and the only thing you hear is the ambient background noise in the scene you were filming; what you won’t hear is the sound of the lens moving as it changes focus. With MSC and the super-bright f1.8 aperture, you can film a school play or indoor sporting event in low light and still get excellent results.

Engineered For Exquisite Quality
With ten individual lens elements in nine groups, metallic construction and a light weight of just 10.7 oz, this lens is a really advanced piece of engineering. Among these elements you’ll find three ED, or extra-low dispersion, lenses that correct for chromatic aberration, and two HR, or high refractivity, lenses, which correct for spherical aberration. All lens elements feature Olympus’s ZERO coating technology for virtual elimination of ghosts and flares.

Capture Perfect Portraits & More
Want exquisite detail and smooth background defocusing in your images? A large front element and sophisticated optical design coupled with a bright aperture of f1.8 make the 75mm f1.8 lens a superb choice for studio portraits and indoor sports.