50mm Olympus lens test results

A recent purchase on Ebay has made me the proud owner of a 50mm f1.8 Olympus lens.
Lenses for the Olympus OM  range of cameras were great lenses in the 80's and can be picked up for very little second hand, of course they are manual focus and manual aperture and can't be used in the auto modes on modern digi cameras but give great results if speed isn't your main priority.

I went out with a few lenses to compare results.
All the images were taken on a tripod and as the lighting conditions were changing constantly it was difficult to get similarly lit images to compare the results.


Canon 24-105L @ 50mm....0.3sec @f20

Canon TS24 ....0.25sec @f20

Olympus Zuiko 50mm   1/25sec @f8

Canon EF50....1/5 sec @f20

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