Olympus 35mm film camera lens tests.
Olympus-fit 35mm film camera lens tests.
Other manufacturer and format film camera lens tests.

 This series of pages is intended to be yet another resource for Olympus film camera users. It is a small resource compared with others (see below), but hopefully will be of help at times.

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Zuiko lenses for Olympus OM and XA cameras.
  1. OLYMPUS ZUIKO MC Auto-W 18mm f/3.5.   Lens number 103672   Tested Sept. 1984.
  2. OLYMPUS ZUIKO MC Auto-W 21mm f/2.   Lens number 100094   Tested May 1981.
  3. OLYMPUS F. Zuiko lens; 35mm f/2.8 for XA. Integral body number 125475. Tested November 1979.
  4. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-Zoom 35 - 70mm f/3.5 - 4.5   Lens number 101676   Tested June 1986.
  5. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-Zoom 35 - 70mm f/3.6   Lens number 206032   Tested January 1980.
  6. OLYMPUS ZUIKO 35 - 70 f/3.5 - 4.8 Zoom lens. Serial # not given. Lens made by Cosina. Tested April 1998.
  7. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-Zoom MC, 35 - 80mm f/2.8, number 101247, Tested August 1995.
  8. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-S 40mm f/2. Number 101963. Tested August 1984.
  9. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-S 50mm f/1.2   Lens number 100538     Tested November 1983.
  10. OLYMPUS ZUIKO 50mm f/1.4.     Lens number 1136552     Tested May 1984.
  11. OLYMPUS ZUIKO 50mm f/1.8. ("Made in Japan" design)     Tested May 1983
  12. OLYMPUS ZUIKO 90mm f/2 macro; Lens number 101413  ; Tested August 1987
  13. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-T 100mm f/2   Lens number 102358   Tested June 1986.
  14. OLYMPUS S ZUIKO One-touch Zoom 100-200mm f/5   Lens 104140   Tested prior to mid-1985.
  15. OLYMPUS ZUIKO Auto-T 180mm f/2   Lens 101051   Tested October 1986.

Non-Zuiko lenses for Olympus OM cameras.
  1. ANGENIEUX 35 - 70mm f/2.5 - f/3.3 zoom. Lens 1479470. Tested June 1984.
  2. KIRON MC 24mm f/2 Wide-Angle. Lens 00200348. Tested March 1981.
  3. KIRON MC 28mm f/2 Wide-Angle. Lens 00100312. Tested March 1981.
  4. SAMYANG lens 18 - 28mm f/4 - 4.5 zoom. Lens 361962. Tested February 1992.
  5. SIGMA lens 90mm f/2.8 macro. Lens 1001570. Tested June 1989.
  6. TAMRON SP 17mm f/3.5 Adaptall-2. Lens 905785. Tested April 1981.
  7. TAMRON SP 90mm f/2.5 macro Adaptall-2. Lens 911331. Tested April 1981.
  8. TAMRON SP 90mm f/2.5 macro Adaptall-2. Lens 8003349. Tested June 1989.
  9. TAMRON SP 90mm f/2.8 AF Macro lens. Serial number 601366. Tested October 1997.
  10. TOKINA AT-X 24 - 40mm f/2.8; Lens 8401194, tested February 1992
  11. TOKINA AT-X 90mm f/2.5 macro. Lens 8300843. Tested June 1989.
  12. TOKINA AT-X 80 - 200mm f/2.8 zoom lens 8300868. Tested May 1984.
  13. TOKINA AT-X 80 - 200mm f/2.8 zoom lens 8901429, Tested April 1991
  14. VIVITAR Series I lens OM fit 9552405 19 - 35mm f/3.5 - 4.5, Tested July 1996.
  15. VIVITAR 100mm f/3.5 Macro (AF/Manual) lens. Serial number not given. Tested June 1998.
Online resources for Olympus.

XA     http://www.diaxa.com/xa/xastart.htm Includes MP test.

Still more other information - valuable Olympus resources.

    || Lens-coating data || Gary Reese's lens tests || R. Lee Hawkins' site ||
|| R. Lee Hawkins' Modern Photography tables of Zuiko lens tests. || Lee Foo's site in Malaya||
|| Tamron manual focus lens guide-site ||

Other lenses for other 35mm cameras.
  1. Carl Zeiss Sonnar 35mm f/2.8 lens. (Contax T3 "point&shoot" camera ). Serial number not given. Tested July 2001.
  2. Three Leitz Leica-M fit lenses, tested January 2000.
  3. Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM. Tested November 1999.
  4. Four Voigtländer lenses for the Bessa-R camera, tested July 2000.
  5. Two Voigtländer lenses for the Bessa-L camera, tested October 1999
  6. Tamron 90mm f/2.8 SP AF Macro lens. Serial number 601366. Tested October 1997.
  7. Two lenses for the Hasselblad XPan camera, tested March 1999.
Lenses for MF camera systems
  1. Six Carl Zeiss lenses for the Contax 645. Tested November 1999.
  2. Five Mamiya lenses for the Mamiya 711 6x7 120/220 roll-film rangefinder camera

Other information.

Mamiya Universal instruction manual in pdf format. About 3.5 MB.