Center Valley, Pa. –
introduced Thursday an M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f/1.8 high-grade portrait lens to
its glass lineup for the Pen Micro Four Thirds and OM-D camera lines.
The new prime lens, which will hit shelves this summer at a $900
suggested retail, offers a comparative 150mm focal length using a 35mm camera,
and includes high-speed autofocusing; the single-focal-length telephoto lens is
optimized for studio, stage, indoor sports and portrait photography.
The 75mm f1.8’s lens has a nine-blade circular aperture capable
of quality defocused backgrounds and sharp subjects.
The metal body lens measures 2.7 inches long and has 10 lens
elements in nine groups that make extensive use of special glass materials,
including three ED (Extra-low Dispersion) elements to optimally correct
aberrations, Olympus said.
Olympus includes its exclusive ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection
Optical) lens coatings to reduce reflectance to half that of conventional
coatings.
The lens includes Olympus’s Movie & Still Compatible (MSC)
autofocusing mechanism with a quiet, inner focus system. A precision-touch
metallic focus ring is added for manual focusing.
Olympus offers an optional
LH-61F lens hood and the LC-61 lens cap.
