Olympus 25mm f/1.2 PRO impression

Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.2 PRO is the first from new 1.2 primes that was released in 2016. I was fortunate enough to shoot a couple of events with this lens and I want to share some of my thoughts.

I’m mostly 35mm and 85mm shooter (in terms of FF) and initially I was hesitating a little bit about the new 25mm (50mm equivalent), but from the begining I was very impressed.
This lens is perfect for every event photographer shooting inside or in tight spaces. It’s great for portraits, without the distortion of the wide angle, but in the same time wide enough even for group portraits indoors.

Optically the performance of the lens is stellar, it’s very sharp even wide open and from f/2.0 reaches maximum sharpness. Flare and chromatic abberations are very well controlled as expected and there is no real weakness of the lens and it’s performance.

I can recommend highly this lens to all event, wedding, portrait and street photographers with it’s bright aperture, compact size and weather sealed construction is a no brainier.

Here are some examples most of it shoot wide open.

Girl in tradional dress posing - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ 1.2, 1/16000 ISO 200

Girl in tradional dress posing – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ 1.2, 1/16000 ISO 200

Young kuker girl - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/1000 ISO 200

Young kuker girl – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/1000 ISO 200

Young girl posing with her mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/1600 ISO 200

Young girl posing with her mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/1600 ISO 200

Kuker boys and fireworks - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/60 ISO 6400

Kuker boys and fireworks – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/60 ISO 6400

Young boy with his costume - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.6, 1/160 ISO 200

Young boy with his costume – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.6, 1/160 ISO 200

Kuker performance during surva celebrations - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.8, 1/60 ISO 1000

Kuker performance during surva celebrations – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.8, 1/60 ISO 1000

Portrait of a guardsman - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/60 ISO 2000

Portrait of a guardsman – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/60 ISO 2000

Portrait of an old man - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/2500 ISO 200

Portrait of an old man – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/2500 ISO 200

Young girl hosding her mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/4000 ISO 200

Young girl hosding her mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/4000 ISO 200

Kuker with a mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.8, 1/3200 ISO 200

Kuker with a mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.8, 1/3200 ISO 200

Kuker posing with his mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/6400 ISO 200

Kuker posing with his mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/6400 ISO 200

Kid with a costume - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/640 ISO 200

Kid with a costume – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.2, 1/640 ISO 200

Kuker masked as a devil - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f2.0, 1/2500 ISO 200

Kuker masked as a devil – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f2.0, 1/2500 ISO 200

Kuker with scary mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/1600 ISO 200

Kuker with scary mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/1600 ISO 200

Girl with big mask posing- Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/2000 ISO 200

Girl with big mask posing- Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/2000 ISO 200

Girl with big mask - Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/1250 ISO 200

Girl with big mask – Olympus M.ZUIKO 25mm f/1.2 PRO @ f/1.4, 1/1250 ISO 200

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