Olympus 60mm f2.8 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED

Double up your magnification

The 2.0x focal length multiplier, or crop factor, of the Micro Four Thirds system is good news for close-up photography. Compared with a full-frame camera, you’ll get double the effective magnification from this lens, in a remarkably compact and light build. Even so, the excellent quality of the weather-sealed construction is a credit to Olympus’s line-up of Premium lenses. Stepping motor autofocus systems are renowned for their virtually silent operation, but rarely feature a focus distance scale. This lens’s smart focus distance/magnification indicator is a bonus. Due to its relatively short focal length, the minimum focus distance is just 20cm, compared with around 30cm for other lenses on test. At maximum magnification, the working distance between lens and subject is entirely usable, at about 10cm. Performance Image quality is very…

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