Olympus 17mm f/1.2 ED Pro M.Zuiko Digital

The Olympus optics portfolio for Micro 4/3 mirrorless cameras includes a trio of ultra-fast prime lenses: 17mm, 25mm and 45mm. The first is a universal option for solving a wide range of tasks, the second is an analogue of the "fifty dollars" in the equivalent of a full frame, and the third is used in the portrait genre of photography.

feathered bokeh

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 17mm f/1.2 PRO wide angle performs well in architecture, landscape and street photography. The high aperture of the lens is designed to compensate for insufficient background blur due to the reduced physical size of the image sensor of the Micro 4/3 series cameras. And the bokeh rendering is given to the model really on a solid "five" — due to the adjusted shape of the lenses and the 9-blade diaphragm, high sharpness in the focus area and soft feathered bokeh in the defocus area are obtained without the use of apodization filters.

Optical design

The optical design of the lens contains ED elements with extra low dispersion and double super-aspherical DSA lenses, which help to reduce harmful optical artifacts in the manner of chromatic aberrations and distortions. And the phenomenon of vignetting will only disturb the frame at the most open apertures.

Function ring

Hidden inside the lens barrel is a fast and silent autofocus drive. Outside are a programmable L-Fn button and a wide soft-touch focus ring. Switching between automatic and manual focus is implemented by shifting the ring towards itself. In addition, the model will please with its compact size and light weight (less than 400 g) — it harmoniously looks on the “carcass” of a compatible camera and does not change the centre of gravity of the camera and lens bundle.