Name: Olympus Zuiko 35mm f/3.5 E-ED Digital (1:1) Macro Lens for E Series DSLRs - (Four Thirds System)
Brand: Olympus
SKU: IOM3535
Price: 229.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.2 (25 reviews)

Olympus Zuiko 35mm f/3.5 E-ED Digital (1:1) Macro Lens for E Series DSLRs - (Four Thirds System)

Olympus 35mm F/3.5

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Olympus Zuiko 35mm f/3.5 E-ED Digital (1:1) Macro Lens f/Four Thirds System

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Buy: Olympus Zuiko 35mm f/3.5 E-ED Digital (1:1) Macro Lens for E Series DSLRs - (Four Thirds System) Filter Size: 52mm, Image Stabilization Type: No, Lens Series: Unique (No Series)

Great Lens

This is a great lens!  I'm very happy with it.  I needed a lens to take more portrait like photos of my grandkids.  This one was just what I needed!  Very happy.

Great Lens!

Primarily used for very close to subject macro photo. Very sharp lens with good depth of field on very close tiny objects. Auto focus will hunt when subject ius extremely close and complex. Manual focus is easily available to counter this.

Excellent Macro lens Very Sharp

Mainly macro photography. Focusing not easy. Good crisp images

Olympus lens

Macro lens

Totally surprises at the POOR quality of a lens from Olymnpus.  What were they thinking when they made this lens? ? ? ? ?

Not Worth The Money

I wanted to get up close with my flowers. This lens fits my needs.  It is quick and easy to use. The price was great. The quality of the Olympus lens are fantastic the pictures are crisp and clear!
I will be looking for a ring flash for this lens to add light for certain conditions.

Great lens for me!

I use this 4/3 lens w/Oly adapter on Oly EPL-1.  I consider this lens to be a bargain. Mine is very slightly mushy at the closest focusing distance but, when brought back just a bit, becomes extremely sharp. I do not know if my use of the adapter affects the closest focus.  I think this is the cheapest true macro ($235) on the market, except maybe for the discontinued 100mm 3.5 Vivitr/Phoenix ($150), and I'd grab one now.

Buy This LensBefore It Gets Discontinued

Got this lens for pictures of flowers and insects, and for items I sell on the famous auction site.  Works perfectly for those things, but it turns out it's a great "walking-around" lens too.
Super sharp, fast focusing in good light (although I use manual focus for macro)
Equivalent to a 70mm lens on 35mm, I've used it for portraits, too.
It's slightly bigger than I expected, about the same size as the kit zoom when retracted.
Great value for the money.

Super sharp!

I bought this to take macro shots since even the Oly 40-150mm kit lens with my e620 couldn't get that close. It absolutely delivers in this front. Even at f3.5, depth of field is very, very shallow and it is sharpest wide open. Even at a relatively small f3.5, DoF can be too thin for macro subjects. The fly-by-wire manual focus feels the best of any of my lenses (25mm Zuiko pancake, the two kit lenses and the 9-18mm Zuiko), and with it I can focus a bit closer than the AF.  The ability to tweak and override the AF is key for any macro. There is very little vignetting, distortion or chromatic abberation too. Focusing speed is actually decent if not whip-fast.  Sometimes it will hunt through it's range to lock focus, but it funds focus pretty consistently. Only times have trouble getting focus lock is when it's dark or too close to the subject. 

I was also pleasantly surprised that this makes for a decent portrait lens. The 70mm full frame equivalent focal length isn't ideal portrait, but it's close enough to not notice or distort your subject.  Bokeh is very smooth and the lens has a circular aperture diaphragm. It obviously won't be as good as an 85mm (full frame) f2, but unless it's quite dark, you won't notice. You'll probably have a good bounce flash anyway. ;-)

My only criticisms are that it doesn't seem to use the CD-AF autofocus that the live view mode normally uses. Also, when in live mode, it can take a lot longer to cycle through its focus.  I rarely use live view anyway, particularly for portraits and macros.

Amazing Macro, Bokeh and value for f3.5

I think for the price this is a very nice lens,was surprised it was so good for the price-sharp-great for macro work-takes nice portraits also so a useful lens...sure you can buy better lenses but for a lot of people this more than enough.

35mm Macro lens

Nice Lens, but NOT ED Glass

This lens performs as described by olympus. Have 
had very good results.

Glad I bought this lens

It is convenient to mount and to take off.  I have enjoyed it so far.

good lens

Looked to add a macro to my small arsenal of lenses. Can't afford the higher end lenses.  With a little research, I found plenty to suggest that this was a great lens for the price.  Besides the price, I especially like how lightweight the lens is.  It is easy to attach and takes quality photos.  Sure you have to get up close for your macros, but what can you expect from a budget lens.  I'd buy it again without hesitation.

Perfect for the money!

Fantastic!

When you first open the package, you realize there is not a lot of glass in this lens. Size is not everything, however, as the small, heavily recessed elements produce extremely sharp images.  The autofocus is slow when switching from distant objects to very close ones, but is reasonably fast with smaller changes in distance.  For 1:1 macro, it has a working distance of about 2" from the front of the lens(which itself also extends about an inch). Autofocus tends to be jumpy at 1:1 macro, so you're better off leaving it on manual focus in many situations.  Metal lens mount, plastic construction, very lightweight.  For the price, it's not pro-grade, but excellent nonetheless.

Superior sharpness

Great lens for the price... sure, I would prefer the Zuiko ED 50mm Macro (and I will purchase it when the funds are accessible), but I will be keeping this lens too.  This works great for those close up 1:1 needs.... and I love it for candid photos of my kids.

Very sharp lens for a low cost

This lens is compact and light - excellent for travel photography.  It is very sharp.  For the price it is worth every cent. As a prime lens it is sharper than the kit lens.  I love the picture that I take with this lens.  There is more scope to explore with macro-photography.

Well done Olympus you have another winner.  I keep it on my E-510 all the time.

Excellent Little Gem - A Must Have

For the money you cannot beat this lens. Olympus came out with a winner with this one. Although it leaves too little working distance to be used as a lens for photographing insects, it is great for macros of plants. It can also be used as an excellent general use 35mm prime. I think this lens rates as the sharpest lens for the money that I have ever purchased. It is currently one of my most used lens. I would highly recommend this lens to any Oly system user.

Great lens for the the price

Very nice lens for just walking around.  So light and small.  A wonderful complement to my E-500.  It took me a while to get used to the depth of field in macro shots, but that's probably just me.  When you get really close, even a small movement throws things out of focus, so taking shots of things that move in the wind can be infuriating.

Speaking of going out of focus, the auto-focus can be slow and a bit unpredictable.  Definitely better used as either AF-MF or just MF.

That being said, I have gotten some really great pictures with it.  Crisp images from an inexpensive lens; what more can you ask for?

I have attached one image that shows the really small depth of field, and another that shows some of the crispness.

Great once you get used to it

Great lens for what it does, only wish I could get closer. I think I should have bought at least a 100mm macro instead, now looking for an extender

my first ever macro

Extreme quality and affordable. I can not afford most of their lenses. But this one is a keeper and pristine pictures are the result with high resolution all the way.

Very Hi Quality lens and a great price.

This lens is one of the best values in macro photography available today. The only drawback is that at 35mm you need to get close to your subject, which can be a problem with small, mobile objects such as insects. I'd have shown a sample image but the software to do so is nonfunctional.

Excellent lens

I used this lens on the E-500 for about two months, in all sorts of situations, not just macro. It became my general walkabout lens because it is so darn LIGHT it will blow your mind away. The E-500 with this lens is easy to take anywhere and throw around your shoulder, you hardly notice the weight. The focal length (70mm equivalent) is not bad for everyday use; it's a little on the telephoto side, but it works for portraits, narrow landscapes, people, and of course, macros. 

This lens is SHARP, most likely as sharp as the 50mm (which I've tried but haven't used extensively). Macros can be beautiful with excellent bokeh and depth of field, but you have to get close for full 1:1 magnification. 

Downsides are focus in non-macro situations and in low light -- this lens hunts all over the place, from infinite to 1:1 and back (and still might not find it). You have to hit those contrast edges and know what you're doing, and resort to manual focus sometimes. This is only in LOW light, if there's any good contrast available it focuses quickly and silently, no problem. This is just what you get for such a great value lens, the max aperture is only f/3.5 and there's no focus limiter, so what do you expect? ;-) It's really great other than those manageable situations.

All around a great lens for almost every use. You'll learn a lot from using a prime (fixed focal length) lens, you'll move around a lot more to fit shots into the frame and think about the shot more in the process. You'll get an idea of exactly what your lens will see before you even look through the viewfinder. It's really great, and this lens is so versatile and cheap that it's a no-brainer.

Olympus Zuiko 35mm f/3.5 E-ED Digital (1:1) Macro Lens for E Series DSLRs - (Four Thirds System)

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