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When you need a fast telephoto lens, the Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm f2.0 lens offers you fast, best-in-class performance -- equivalent to a 70-200mm zoom in 35mm photography. This wide zoom range offers both the natural perspective of medium-telephoto zoom and the compressed perspective of telephoto zoom. The 35-100mm f2.0 Zuiko Lens is a durable high-performance telephoto lens offering superior optical clarity and speed. Its fast 2.0 aperture gives you the ability to shoot in low light or even throw the background out of focus. This high-end, high-performance telephoto lens takes full advantage of ED and Super ED glass elements to deliver unsurpassed image color and clarity -- crisply and beautifully. All-metal components and rubber seals help this lens resist moisture and dust.

Olympus ED 35-100mm f2.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens Key Features

Zuiko ED 35-100mm f2.0 mounted on Olympus E-1

Box Contents:

• 35-100mm f2.0 Zuiko Lens
• Lens Case LSH-1326
• Lens Hood
• Lens Cap LC-77
• Lens Rear Cap
• Instruction Manual
• Warranty Card

2.86x Telephoto Zoom Lens

The versatile 35-100mm Zuiko Digital Telephoto to Super-Telephoto Zoom is equivalent to a 70-200mm f2.0 in 35mm photography. This wide zoom range offers both the natural perspective of medium-telephoto zoom and the compressed perspective of telephoto zoom.

Expanded Shooting Capabilities of a Large-Aperture, F2.0 Telephoto Zoom Lens

This top-class professional telephoto zoom lens offers a fast F2.0 aperture at any zoom setting. Its sharp, clear imaging performance at F2.0 makes it ideal for shooting portraits, stage plays and concerts, nighttime sporting events under lights, and other subjects where fast shutter speeds or a shallow depth of field are needed.

21 Elements In 18 Groups, Including A Super ED Lens Element and Four ED Glass Lens Elements

Compared to an ordinary optical glass lens, the ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass lens presents extremely small changes in refractivity in the wavelengths from blue to red. It can improve the imaging performance of lenses by reducing chromatic aberration (a phenomenon caused by the dispersion of light produced by deviation of the focusing point due to color differences) that causes color fringing or contrast degradation. By improving the optical characteristics of the ED lens, the Super ED lens was created. Super ED offers optical dispersion characteristics comparable to those obtained with fluorite. Optimum use of ED and Super ED lenses makes it possible to effectively correct chromatic aberration and achieve sharp, high-contrast imaging performance.

Inner Focusing Mechanism with a Minimum Focusing Distance of Just 4.6 Feet

An inner focusing mechanism is used to assure a minimum focusing distance of only 4.6 feet. The inner focusing system features a "floating" mechanism that ensures excellent image quality at all ranges from infinity right down to the minimum focusing distance.

Petal-Shaped Lens Hood with Polarizing Filter Adjustment Window

The large, petal-shaped lens hood features a sliding window for easy filter rotation when using a polarizing filter.

Multi-Coated Lens

The Four Thirds system uses advanced lens coating technology in order to achieve optimum color balance and to reduce ghosts and flare. This coating reduces reflections regardless of the light incident angle and at a wide range of wavelengths, and has been independently optimized for each lens element. Care is also taken to prevent the digital-specific phenomenon of ghosts and flare due to reciprocal reflections between the image sensor and lens element surface. Together these refinements ensure accurate representation of natural light even in photographing against the light, providing excellent imaging performance with high contrast.

Digital Specific Lens™

Zuiko Digital lenses are designed to focus light straight into an imager's pixel wells, to fill every pixel consistently. It's optical technology that delivers an image filled from center to edge with rich, accurate color, high contrast and subtle gradation. Designed exclusively for digital photography, Zuiko Digital lenses provide a level of precision that's simply unattainable from a digital body using a traditional 35mm film lens.

The Olympus FourThirds Standard uses lenses which are just as powerful as the lenses previously developed for 35mm film camera systems despite being about half the size. Thus the focal length of the 35-100mm in the FourThirds Standard gives the same angle of view as a 70-200mm lens for a 35mm film camera. It is important to know that this is not a 2x "crop factor" -- Olympus E-System lenses are designed for this size format and have a much higher resolution than lenses designed generally for 35mm film cameras. The benefit: superb image quality but less weight to carry.

Zuiko lenses feature a near telecentric design that ensures that the light hits the photodiodes at right angles, thus avoiding the problem of blurring at the edges of the image, or corner shading, which often occurs when using lenses originally designed for 35mm film cameras. Combined with the high resolution of Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses, this lens design exploits the full potential of the digital camera image sensors. The result is clear photos with strong colors and sharp contrasts right to the edges of the image.

Smart System

Zuiko Digital lenses communicate image information directly to the Olympus E-System Digital SLR for a level of exposure accuracy that's beyond the capabilities of a passive lens.

Reliable Dust and Water Droplet Resistant Construction

External components are thoroughly sealed to ensure high resistance to dust and moisture. As a result, the lens can withstand the rigorous demands of professional shooting under adverse conditions.

Responsive Core-less Motor for High-Speed Auto-focusing

The auto-focus drive system uses a highly responsive core-less motor to assure faster auto-focusing and stress-free shooting.

Circular Aperture Diaphragm

A circular aperture diaphragm with 9 blades ensures smooth background blurring at larger apertures.

Focus Limit Switch and Focus Stop Button

A focus limit switch allows focusing time to be reduced by limiting the focus range to far distances or near distances. In addition, there is a focus stop button to prevent the auto-focus system from responding to foreground movement after correct focus on the primary subject has been achieved.

Olympus ED 35-100mm f2.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens Specifications

Focal Length

35-100mm (70mm-200mm 35mm equivalent)

Lens Construction

21 Elements in 18 Groups, including 1 Super ED elements and 4 ED elements

Angle of View

34° to 12°

Closest Focusing Distance

4.6 feet (1.4 m)

Maximum Image Magnification

0.09x (0.18x 35mm equivalent)

Maximum Aperture

f2.0

Minimum Aperture

f22

Number of Blades

9 (circular aperture)

Filter Size

77mm

Dimensions, Diameter x Length

3.8" x 8.4" (96.5mm x 213.5mm)

Weight

3.64 lbs. (1.65Kg)

Compatibility

TeleConverter EC-14 - Yes
Extension Tube EX-25 - Yes

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