Olympus has announced the development of three new FourThirds standard, professional-grade interchangeable lenses for the Olympus E-System. Olympus claims the Zuiko Digital ED 14-35mm 1:2.0 and Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm 1:2.0 are the first fully interchangable lenses to have a 2.0 aperature across the entire zoom range. The third lens, the Zuiko Digital ED 90-250mm 1:2.8 is aimed at sports and natur photographers who need to quickly line up their shots. Olympus has also announced the Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm 1:4.0 lens, due to arrive in March.
All three lenses are splash and dust-proof and utilise Super ED or ED elements, ensuring that chromatic aberration is all but eliminated. Photographers can use the shallow depth of field resulting from the wide aperture to deliberately blur the background thereby emphasising the subject.
The Olympus E-System is the world’s first digital SLR system to be based on the FourThirds Standard jointly developed by Olympus and Kodak. This professional system has been designed exclusively for digital photography. It currently comprises the Olympus E-1 and Olympus E-300 SLR bodies plus a range of interchangeable lenses and other accessories. Zuiko DIGITAL lenses are designed to maximise the performance of digital SLRs based on the FourThirds Standard. This enables full cross-manufacturer lens interchangeability among camera systems applying the standard, as well as the use of lenses that are small and light but also have a large aperture.
