Olympus 50mm f1.8 › Optical Performance
39 positive · 7 mixed · 8 critical mentions across 54 sources.
The sharpness at the plane of focus, combined with the smoothness of what falls behind it, gave this lens a quality that serious portrait photographers in the OM era recognized the moment they looked through the viewfinder.
The next things I want to mention are the maximum aperture, close focusing distance, and build quality.
nowadays shooting in 4k with digital sharping it kind of gets rid of some of that because sharpness isn't really the most you know cinematic looking thing in the world but like I said it's really soft really blew me it adapts really well to most systems I use it on the Micro Four Thirds system and…
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