There’s no doubt about it, the Olympus 60mm macro is a stellar lens; I personally think it’s one of the best primes for the MFT format at the moment. A number of my photographs were awarded at local and overseas competitions such as the Czech Press Photo, Nature's Best Photography, Bird Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards, Big Picture Awards, Nactus Awards or the most acclaimed one - the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Visit our Competitions Forum, where you'll find our monthly competition and other external competitions to enter. Do you have issues where the focus peaking is deactivated at the half-press of shutter button (when using MF) in E-M1, and know how to prevent that? That said, the lens does offer a dust- and splashproof construction, which is great news if you happen to own a similarly ruggedised camera body.With its strong 1:1 magnification, superb sharpness, reasonable working distance, and excellent handling, there is very little room for improvements. The photograph above was captured handheld with in-camera focus stacking using a shutter speed of 1/15. maximum aperture for superb low-light performance and advanced construction employing no less than 13 separate lens elements in 10 groups including some high-end glass materials to help eliminate chromatic aberrations. Likewise, I would have to abstain from using the built-in composite macro (again due to the lack of AF).

HD Digital Frame is a great way to put your portfolio on display and a great way to surface forgotten memories. If you plan on using this lens for pure macro shooting, you will need to get used to the distance dial right away as you will be using this feature quite a bit.Yes the focus peaking is deactivated as soon as you half press the shutter button and so far I don't think there is any way around that.