The 75 f1.8 is a sweet lowlight medium telephoto and portrait lens. Super sharp for event coverage indoors and a terrific basketball, wrestling, and other sports lens. Great compact size at a good price point.

I read up on this lens again, and watched several video reviews. It has been on my wish list for a few years now. I wish I would not have waited so long to buy this lens - it is so incredibly sharp, fast to focus, and is ideal for portraits and low light photography. My only knock would be the focal length is a bit limiting in small spaces, but for outdoors portraits it is awesome. A must have for any photographer looking to improve his or her portrait work.

This was the 2nd lens I purchased, with travel and concert photography in mind. You can't go wrong with such a fast, sharp and compact tele prime. Yes its a bit pricey, but worth it. Wished it was a PRO series with weather sealing, but one can always dream.

My absolute favorite Olympus prime lens - it is sharp as a tack and the image quality is just phenomenal. I use this for outdoor portraits as well as street photography.

All the reviews I've read from pros to amateurs rave on the sharpness and clarity of this lens. Well, they're all right. Just an incredible lens and a must for your kit!

I recently took this lens to Mexico. Great telephoto lens for family portraits, architectural photography (isolating interesting features of buildings), and street portraits. Lacking a longer telephoto lens, I took this lens to a soccer game unsure if it was long enough or fast enough. It was both and worked great! On the sidelines, you can isolate players with an out of focus background for candid shots. On the field, you can capture and freeze groups of players in action. Definitely a multi-purpose lens for travel photography!

Kind of special lens with a good focal lens for headshots - If you use it for other portraits it that is almost a bit to long and makes communication difficult and reduces rapport. Very well build - but focus is not so fast.

This lens is one of my favorite for portrait. Its ultra sharp and very fast at F1.8 (you can use it indoor). Great Bokeh. Its the perfect combo with my 25mm F1.2 and my 45mm F1.8.

I can not add anything new. This is a magnificent lens with unprecedented optical characteristics. It is sharp with an open diaphragm. They are almost free of chromatic aberrations. It is compact. It is beautiful. It's fast. It beautifully blurs the background on the photo. But with all this, it's some features that should be taken into account when you acquire it. The ratio of the focal length, the background and the aperture leads sometimes to the feeling that the subject is pasted into the frame, the side does not progress in the picture - it is immediately maximum. The focal length of 75mm - imposes its limitations on working with the model and at work in small enclosed spaces. In any case, this means only one thing - this lens is beautiful and so perfect and has such a huge potential in creating deep and beautiful photos that in order to master it you need to be a real master!

Despite not being my most used lens, this is certainly my favorite. I always make excuses to use it because of the absolutely gorgeous rendering the lens imparts on scenes. The color is perfect, the out of focus areas smooth, and the sharpness that of a razor's edge. Seriously, on any of the cameras with a 'hi-res' mode, the detail you can get out of this lens straight from f/1.8 is really astounding.