Olympus Pen F lenses

Pen FT with 100–200mm f/5 zoom lens image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

Lenses

There was an extensive range of lenses sold for the Olympus Pen F series.

Please note that because the body is for half-frame format, the angle of view is not the same as for full-frame lenses, for example a 38mm lens is here considered as a standard lens, roughly equivalent to a usual 50mm.

Most lenses existed in two versions, one for the Pen F and one for the Pen FT on which a scale of numbers was added underside the diaphragm ring, used to operate the uncoupled exposure meter.

The lenses are listed below:

Olympus Pen F with appropriate system lenses and their modern adequate usage via adapter for APS-C format digital system camera image by /kuuan/ (Image rights)

• 20/3.5
• 25/2.8
• 25/4
• 38/1.8, normal lens
• 38/2.8, made in very small numbers at the beginning of the Pen F production
• 38/2.8 Pancake, usually sold with the black models
• 38/3.5 Macro
• 40/1.4, normal lens
• 42/1.2, ultra luminous normal lens
• 60/1.5
• 70/2
• 100/3.5, common
• 150/4, common
• 250/5, rare
• 400/6.3, rare
• 800/8 Mirror, rare
• 50–90/3.5
• 100–200/5

At least one example of a Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 54mm f/2 is known in Pen F mount. It has a black and chrome finish, quite similar to the Olympus lenses. It seems that the lens was a genuine prototype by Carl Zeiss Jena, but this is not known for sure.

Adapters

Olympus made adapters to mount other lenses on the Pen F bodies. They were for:

• Exakta lenses
• Nikon F lenses
• Minolta lenses
• Canon FD lenses
• 39mm screw lenses, does not preserve infinity, for macro only
• 42mm screw lenses
• Olympus OM lenses

Links

In German, with some English:

• Pages of Frank Mechelhoff's cameras site:
  • Olympus Pen F lenses
  • Carl Zeiss Sonnar 54mm f/2 for Pen F