Review on 📷 M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 Macro Lens for Micro Four Thirds Cameras by OLYMPUS by Virot Ngeonkham ᠌

I bought it last summer before the expedition solely for the sake of compactness - I didn’t want to drag a large Canon with me just for the sake of macro photography. I was very pleasantly surprised by the results: the combination of Olympus E-M10 and Olympus 60 / 2.8 allowed us to get much better results than the Canon 5DM3 + Canon 100 / 2.8L Macro, while being 4 times smaller and 3 times cheaper. Upon returning to the city, Canon sold the macro, now I shoot macro only on Olympus - no complaints at all. Partly, of course, this is due to the fact that Olympus cameras are better suited for macro photography (due to the absence of a low-pass filter in front of the matrix, sharpness is noticeably higher, and new models also have automatic frame stitching with a focus shift, for which you just want to kiss the manufacturer) . When used as a portrait lens, the lens has its own characteristics - I would not call them shortcomings. Suitable for facial portraits without problems. Yes, initially the frames from the camera are harsh - every smallest hair on the skin is visible. However, removing excess sharpness in Photoshop is a matter of minutes, it is much easier than adding it to the iris and eyelashes, for example. For full-length portraits, the depth of field is probably too big: if the background is close enough, you can’t tear the object away from it as well as on a full-frame Canon with a fast telephoto lens (135/2 or 200/2.8). But there are no absolutely universal lenses - this is a fact that you have to put up with.