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.

Simply put, if you’re on the fence about this lens... buy it. I put this one off for a while because I already the excellent Oly 45 1.8. I knew this would be a bit of a specialty lens for things like chorus/theatre performances, occasional portraits, and maybe indoor sports at some point in the future. I’ve only had it a couple of weeks and I can say I love it. It just feels like such a quality lens and is not unlike the Oly PRO zooms in terms of being a solid feeling, metal, beautifully finished lens with a nice quality focus ring. Focusing is fast and accurate, like all Oly premium lenses I’ve used, and the sharpness and bokeh are wonderful. The closest lens I can compare it to is my Canon EF 85L II in terms of sharpness and subject separation (although it’s FOV is closer to the 135L that I’ve never used). That’s saying a lot, since the 85L II is one of my absolute favorite lenses of all time, and that certainly puts this Oly 75 in that same category. Those who say you can’t get shallow DOF and great subject separation on MFT cameras have obviously never shot with this lens. It can produce some beautiful images that compete with the best from any system. For this price it should have come with a hood, but that’s basically my only complaint. The lens itself is flawless in build and performance. I can’t wait to get out and shoot with it more.