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Olympus 11-22mm f/2.8-3.5 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens for E1, E300 & E500 Cameras | 
 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
List Price: $949.99
Buy New: $599.99
You Save: $350.00 (37%)
New (9) Used (2) from $525.00
Rating:  10 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 2
Maximum Focal Length: 22
Minimum Focal Length: 11
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 5.4 x 5.1
MPN: 146044
Model: 146044
UPC: 050332146044
EAN: 0050332146044
ASIN: B0001M47FG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 11-22 millimeter F2.8-3.5 wide-angle zoom lens (equivalent to 22-44 millimeter on a 35 millimeter film camera) | | • | Compatible with Olympus E1 and Evolt E300 cameras | | • | Designed to perfectly match the imager so light strikes the sensor directly, ensuring rich, accurate colors | | • | Two aspherical glass lenses that minimize distortion, spherical aberration and "Koma" aberration | | • | Utilizes a floating mechanism to deliver sharp, high contrast images |
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Product Description
When you need wide angle lenses with great performance and fast apertures, Zuiko Digital Wide Zoom lenses can deliver. The superb optics are designed specifically for digital photography delivering the highest image quality with their design highlighted by two aspherical glass lens elements that help prevent aberrations and distortions. These elements combine with new multi-coating on the first two lenses, which contributes to the removal of ghost or glare that can occur with a wide-angle lens, so clarity of images is obtained at all distances. Floating focusing system results in close focusing distance of 0.28m (11.02 inches) for close-up macro shots. Closest Focusing Distance - 11.02 inches/0.28m Maximum Image Magnification - 0.13x (0.26x 35mm equivalent) Maximum Aperture - f2.8 Wide - f3.5 Telephoto Minimum Aperture - f22 Number of Blades - 7 Filter Size - 72mm Dimensions - Diameter 75 x 92.5mm Weight - 485 grams
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Amazing low-light wide-angle possibilities December 26, 2008
While there may be wider options available from Olympus and other vendors, this lens is quite flexible in shooting architecture, landscapes, nigthscapes, streets, museums, insides of low-lit cathedrals and even portraits (at tele-end of 44mm eFoV). I also have Canon EFS 10-22m which though wider, is not as flexible in variety of scenarios as 11-22. Image quality rivals primes.
With an aperture of F2.8 and image stabilized body, this lens can take some incredible handheld lowlight shots. On E520 and other bodies with IS, it is possible to take handheld shots as slow as 1/2~1/5 seconds at 11mm. Neither Canon nor Nikkon offers anything similar.
Highly recommended and extremely under appreciated among non-Zuikoholics.
A current and future collectible.
Perfect for Portraits, Panoramas, 3D and Infrared August 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
At 22mm/f11 this lens is perfect for the kind of portraits, where you need high depth of field, e.g. on the front cover of my Suntan Book (see link below), the family members are lined up behind each other. For panoramas the low distortion and large depth of field make panoramas possible, where closeup and far-away elements are combined. Adding a infrared filter delivers snow white greenery. Using camera shift or 2 cameras and 2 of these lenses, 3D is crispy clear. Especially for 3D, closeup and faraway elements need to be in the picture. Again, at f11 they are all in focus. A fantastic lens for artistic photography!
Following are some links of my books created with this lens and a E300:
Suntan: Skin Tone Color Adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop
Panoramic & Stereoscopic Photography in Color and Infrared: A Step by Step Guide
Florida - Focus on Anna Maria Island - Panoramic & Stereoscopic: Hypnotizing Sceneries
3D Stereoscopic Portraits - Photography by Rolf Bertram - Posing by Audrey Michelle: Color and Infrared
Flexible: Posing by Audrey Michelle
Fantastic Lens April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this lens a short time now, and the weather has not permitted much in the way of outdoor use. The shots that I have been able to take, including some indoor available light and flash, have been superb. Extremely sharp optics with excellent FOV. This lens will probably stay on my L1 body for all-around use.
Exceptional clarity and linearity November 20, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I posted a photo above you can look at to see the objective glass element on this lens - it has some severe curvature to obtain the near 90 degreee field of view without distortion. I also plan to mount it in my linearity tester when finished using it for a customer and will post a photo of its overall resolution.
This lens would be IDEAL for a realator who takes "curb apeal" shots of homes, and interior shots where it is difficult to see floor to ceiling and wall to wall. At 11 MM there is no fisheye effect and all lines are straight. Unfortunately, even though this can focus down to about 11 inches, it can not mount the flash ring because it has a 72mm filter size instead of the 67 mm on the other lenses which can use the ring flash. This is really a shame too, because at close distances, the wide field of view of this lens will cast a shadow from the built in flash on the camera that may take up 1/8 of the picture. Using a flash off the camera for closeup work is one option, a bounce flash and a card is another option, but direct lighting will alsmost certainly show up in the picture due to the wide viewing angle.
Outside during daylight the lens really shines. I used it to take a photo of my house from the curb and got the entire lot (75' wide) from 50 feet away on the sidewalk, with the grass in front in focus, as well as the sky above, and parts of my neighbor's homes. This would give a realator alot of flexibility to either zoom in or crop the picture in photoshop for a front on view for flyers.
Superb wide-angle lens November 5, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought an Olympus 11-22mm lens from Cameta Camera earlier this spring and found I use it much more frequently than my 14-54mm. The 11-22mm is essentially a near-super wide to normal lens that is both sharp across the image (sharper than the 14-54mm) and displays very very little distortion across its entire zoom range. An added plus--an exposure set at one zoom setting is good for any other, so you can lock an exposure and just focus between zoom settings. Auto focus is very fast. Images show very little CA at extreme edges. It takes a lens filter without signs of vignetting (dark image edges).
The lens works well on my E-510 and E-330. In fact, it works so well on the E-330 that it stays on this camera.
This is simply a superb lens for landscape and makes the Olympus 4:3 system unique for its overall small size and image quality. Images from the 11-22mm easily print full-size onto 13x19 papers with sharp resolution of detail (using Epson 2200 and 2400 printers). What a keeper. I highly recommend the 11-22mm.
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