Thanks for stopping by for our review of the best Olympus Lenses. As you’ve probably already discover, hence you visting us, there are tons of different options when it comes to buying Lenses, in fact we found 155 products in the category at Currys PC World alone. And of those 155, Olympus is the manufacturer of 7 of them. That’s why we’ve hunted around the web and pulled together some of the top pieces of information to find you the best Olympus Lenses. This includes the price, the popularity at major retailers like Currys PC World, the number of reviews and the overall review score.

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So you’ve seen the top products that we found for Olympus Lenses, but before you go on to buy one, you’re going to want to know some of the key features and benefits you can expect from each. Below we give you a short overview of each of our favourite products in the Lenses category from Olympus. Our advice is to take your time looking at the overview of each and then go onto Currys PC World where you can read lots of customer reviews.

1. Our Top Pick – OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300 mm f/4.8-6.7 II Telephoto Zoom Lens

Price: £469
Get closer to your subject with the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300 mm f/4.8-6.7 II Telephoto Zoom Lens. Powerful zoom Compatible with Micro Four Thirds system cameras, this 75-300 mm Lens offers an equivalent range of 150-600 mm on a 35 mm film camera to deliver a long focal length for zooming in on faraway subjects. Ideal for sports and wildlife, this 75-300 mm Lens features an extremely fast autofocus function with MSC technology for taking rapid-fire shots. The unique screw drive mechanism is especially quiet when focusing, ideal when shooting movies. Great results This 75-300 mm Lens features a circular aperture diagram which is ideal when blurring the background, offering smooth bokeh. Reflections are reduced with the ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating, for clearer images without ghosting. Compact and lightweight, the high power Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300 mm f/4.8-6.7 II Telephoto Zoom Lens is an ideal addition to your kit.
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2. OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45 mm f/1.8 Standard Prime Lens

Price: £279
The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45 mm 1:1.8 Lens is crafted with a beautifully sleek construction with a lightweight and compact form – a sterling addition to any camera kit. Superb performance The M.ZUIKO lens has a fast aperture that delivers a picture perfect performance when capturing people in gorgeous portrait shots. The prime Olympus lens produces stunningly detailed subjects with striking background blur and vivid contrasts. The large aperture means you can create a nice depth of field effect that brings more attention to the subject. Perfectly suited for shooting movies, the 45 mm compact system lens allows you to shoot high quality films with high speed focusing. Moreover, it’s been built with stunning good-looks, the subtle metal-like exterior and interchangeable decoration rings match different PEN cameras. Offering a first-class performance at a great price, the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45 mm 1:1.8 Lens is your gateway to dramatic photos and movies.
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3. OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75 mm f/1.8 Telephoto Prime Lens

Price: £842
The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75 mm f/1.8-22 Telephoto Prime Lens is a high-grade lens with robust metal casing, ideal for any enthusiast of portraiture and indoor photography. Enhanced photography Compatible with Olympus PEN and OM-D compact system cameras with a micro four-thirds mount, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 75 mm Lens has an equivalent 150 mm focal length in 35 mm terms, perfect for snapping shots indoors where lighting conditions are often poor. The Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED75 mm prime lens features a super-bright open aperture of f/1.8-22 and will deliver crisp contrast, edge-to-edge precision, high resolution and low aberration. Featuring the ZERO (ZUIKO Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED Lens will ensure that distracting and unwanted reflections are kept to a minimum to provide you with superb quality shots time and time again. Fantastic focusing With high speed autofocus, suitable for both movie and stills photography, and silent focusing technology so you won’t be disturbed by a noisy motor whir, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 75 mm Lenswill provide you with the time and control to capture images the way you want them. Sophisticated in appearance, with a supremely lightweight design, the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75 mm f/1.8-22 Telephoto Prime Lens will enhance your photography.
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4. OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 9-18 mm f/4.0-5.6 Wide-angle Zoom Lens

Price: £469
The Olympus EZ-M918 9-18 mm f/1:4.0 Wide-angle Lens broadens the shooting frame, allowing you to capture images from an ultra wide perspective. Optical performance The ultra wide-angle zoom lens attaches to your Olympus PEN or OM-D compact system camera, providing more scope for creative compositions. An ultra wide-angle frame allows you to shoot landscape scenes in full form. Ideal for close-up and scene photography, the 9-18 mm lens produces fantastic still images in an eye-catching angle. Ensuring maximum detail with an outstanding creative performance, the compact lens is suitable for everyday photography – a lens well worthy of having at hand. The EZ-M918 delivers a speedy contrast autofocus system, capturing fast-moving subjects in sharp focus without missing a pivotal photo moment. With MSC technology the wide-angle lens drives a silent focusing performance, you can shoot movies without picking up unintentional focus noise. The ultra-compact Olympus EZ-M918 9-18 mm f/1:4.0 Wide-angle Lens sports a 49.5 mm length, making it an ideal piece of travel kit.
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5. OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 14-150 mm 1:4.0-5.6 II Wide-angle Zoom Lens

Price: £489.99
Top features: – Versatile lens that’s great for landscape, architecture or creative portraiture shots – Rounded blades provide a pleasant defocused background effect – Weatherproof lens so you can use outdoors with confidence Versatile lens If you don’t like to keep switching lenses when taking photographs, the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 14-150 mm 1:4.0-5.6 II Wide-angle Zoom Lens covers a variety of needs. Packing in a 10.7 x zoom which make sport and wildlife photography simple, the lens also works up to a minimum range of 0.5 m providing macro-like performance. Take wide-angle shots of natural and architectural subjects, capturing more detail and lending a broader feel to each image. Rounded blades With diaphragm featuring seven rounded blades, the lens captures light in a circular fashion, helping you to take images with pleasant defocused background effect (bokeh) when you want to sharply frame your main subject against a creatively-blurred backdrop. Weatherproof lens Shoot outdoors in different conditions with confidence using the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 14-150 mm Lens. With a dust-, splash- and freeze-proof design, your lens will keep performing, so you can shoot events like races and safari scenes, water sports and hiking trips, or even ski trips and excursions in very cold climates.
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6. OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12 mm f/2 IF Wide-Angle Prime Lens

Price: £539
The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12 mm f/2 Wide-Angle Lens is a high-grade lens, ideal for capturing wide-angled photos in an equally wide range of settings. Capture more from your photography Compatible with Olympus PEN and OM-D compact system cameras with a micro four-thirds mount, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED has an equivalent 24 mm focal length in 35 mm terms, making it an extreme wide angle lens, ideal for capturing supreme architectural shots. Suitable for shooting landscapes with optical clarity and precision, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED is highly versatile in that it will capably handle low light situations and can be used in places where flashes or tripods are not allowed or are impractical. Featuring the ZERO (ZUIKO Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED Lens will ensure that distracting and unwanted reflections are kept to a minimum to provide you with superb quality shots time and time again. Fantastic focusing Featuring a snapshot mechanism, which is activated by simply pulling the focusing ring back, with distance and depth field indicators allowing you to focus your image without looking at the camera screen, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED make focusing fast and intuitive. With high speed autofocus, suitable for both movie and stills photography, and silent focusing technology so you won’t be disturbed by a noisy motor whir, the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12 mm f/2 Wide-Angle Lens will provide you with ample opportunities for capturing some cracking images.
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What makes the best Olympus Lenses?

There are lots of things that you’ll need to consider when you’re trying to find the best Olympus Lenses for your personal circumstance. One person’s best Lenses is another person’s worst. But the tips below should be used to help you when shopping for the perfect Olympus Lenses.

Read lots of reviews

Reviews are your number 1 asset when you’re shopping for a product online that you’re unable to physically get hold of before buying. Think of a review as an alternative to actually trialling a product. You can probably think of several occasions where a friend or relative has mentioned how good a product is and you’ve gone on to buy it. Use reviews in a similar fashion, so good or bad, take the overall feedback of a product as a solid bit of advice. For example you’ll see that OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300 mm f/4.8-6.7 II Telephoto Zoom Lens has scored 9/10 from the 29 at Currys PC World which is one of the reasons it has topped the chart for us and made it as our top Olympus Lenses.

Check Prices

Shopping around is of course a very important step to ensuring you get a good deal and the best possible Olympus Lenses for your money. Especially with a product that can vary so much in price. To give you an idea of the variation, the cheapest product we found in the Lenses category was £99 and the most expensive of the 155 products was £3049, although the average was £661.79. Another thing worth looking at, is specifically looking at the price of products from Olympus. The cheapest we found was £157.97, the most expensive £842 and the average came in at £462.45.

Stick to the top shops

There are tons of different retailers that sell Olympus Lenses, but being such a popular product you can see why there are people out there trying to capitalise on the opportunity to grab your money and run. One of the most important pieces of advice we can offer you is PLEASE only shop at retailers that you know. You’ll often find there are really good deals to be had with the major retailers anyway. In fact our top rated Olympus Lenses, OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300 mm f/4.8-6.7 II Telephoto Zoom Lens was available at Currys PC World for just £469 in our last price scan.

Factor in the delivery cost

This point is kind of a combined point about creating a budget for yourself. As you’ve seen above there is a massive variance in price from the cheapest to most expensive Olympus Lenses, so we strongly recommend you take the time to set yourself a budget. That way you won’t find yourself spending a lot more than you can afford.

So the second part of the point is an important one, if you’re shopping and buying online, make sure you factor in any delivery costs when you’re setting yourself a budget. Whilst it’s likely to be a minimal cost it is still worthwhile having in mind.

Warranty

Our final point is for you to take the time to read up on the warranty period that you’ll be covered by when you shop for your Olympus Lenses. You might find that the retailer like Currys PC World provides (or offers for an additional cost) a warranty for your product. You’ll also likely find that Olympus cover it too.