The Ultimate Micro 4/3 Lens List

There are so many great lenses for the micro four thirds camera system that the only way to not make my brain explode was to create an organized MFT M43 lens list. 

This list is a little out of date but I will update it this week. There are so many third party lenses and Chinese lenses available for the micro four thirds system now and I’ll include all of them here.

Micro 4/3 Lens Guide

Before I get into the list I want to say there are a few ways to say Micro Four Thirds that the photography world likes to use. There is MFT, M43 and Micro 4/3. Those are the three most popular. I’ll use them interchangeably.

One thing to also keep in mind when using micro four thirds, is that the image compression will look and feel like that of the original lens design. In other words, a 100mm lens on a full frame camera will have the same compression as a 100mm lens on a micro four thirds camera, the difference is the micro four thirds lens produces a 2x crop causing the field of view to change to 200mm. This is more important when considering the distortion of ultra wide lenses since the angle of view of a lens will produce the same qualities regardless of crop.

Check out the 35mm equivalency calculator.

M43 Olympus Lenses

Olympus M43 Zoom Lenses – Full Auto

A list of all the Olympus MFT zoom lenses still available on the market.

Olympus M43 Prime Lenses – Full Auto

This is the list of all of the Olympus Prime MFT lenses.

Olympus M43 Macro

Micro 4/3 Panasonic Lenses

Panasonic MFT Zoom Lenses – Full Auto

A list of all of Panasonics M43 Zoom Lenses that are still on the market.

Panasonic M43 Prime Lenses – Full Auto

A list of all of the Panasonic MFT Prime Lenses.

Panasonic M43 Macro

Panasonic 3D Lenses

The Panasonic 3d M43 lens looks fun. Kind of a gimick and it’s not fast at all, but I bet it’s fun to play with. I imagine they made this hoping 3d TV’s would do better than they have.

Third-Party Micro 4/3 Lenses

Lensbaby Tilts

Tamron M43 Zoom – Full Auto

Surprisingly this is the only Tamron MFT lens I could find.

Sigma M43 Primes – Full Auto

Sigma has a few great options for the micro four thirds system.

Samyang / Rokinon  Primes – Full Manual

Samyang / Rokinon Micro43 Macro

Kowa M43 Primes – Full Manual

Kowa is a Japanese company that makes scopes, binoculars, accessories etc. But they also make some decent MFT lenses.

Voigtlander M43 Primes – Full Manual

If you’re an E-Mount or Lecia shooter you’ve probably heard the hype. These lense are actually fantastic for the price. Voigtlander also makes their primes in a MFT mount. They are worth checking out.

Tokina MFT Primes – Full Manual

There are a few Tokina micro four third lenses out there. A Cinema ultra wide zoom and a tele. A little pricey though.

Yasuhara Nanoha M43 Macro

Chinese Micro Four Third Lenses

7Artisans Micro 4/3 Lenses

7Artisan is a Chinese company that makes a really inexpensive third-party lens for the Fujifim X-Mount. They aren’t great but they also aren’t terrible for the price. If you’re looking to experiment with a certain focal length or just looking for lenses you can mess around with the 7Artisan lenses are a lot of fun.

The biggest problem with these lenses isn’t image quality as much as it is build quality. On my 25mm is a mess on the insides, with contact cement showing around the edges of the elements and other spots around the inside housing.

The 25mm is a 7 element lens with 12 aperture blades.

Meike Micro 4/3 Lenses

Mitakon M43 Primes – Full Manual

Some people like Mitakon lenses because of how fast they are, but from what I’ve seen, optically they are only so-so. Here is a list of the MFT Mitakon prime lenses.

Photex Tilt Shift Lens

Cinema Lenses

Zeiss Compact Primes

The Cinema Primes listed here are 35mm lenses with the Micro Four Thirds Mount and the mounts are interchangeable. A great investment. They also come in two version, one where the measurements are in metric and the other is in feet. Some lenses don’t have a specification as to what they are. I’ve tried to list them in feet.

I haven’t used the standard compact primes but I have used the Zeiss Super Speeds on a feature I shot a few years ago. They are amazing. We rented a set to use with the Red. Great little lenses.

There are also some Zeiss Cinema Zoom lenses too but if you have $20,000 for a lens I doubt you’ll be working with M43 so I won’t bother listing them.

SLR Magic Anamorphic Lenses Adapter

The Anamorphic Adapter lens has a front filter of 77mm and a rear filter thread of 62mm. It comes with a set of 58mm, 52mm, 49mm step up rings.

SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x 50 Lenses – (Adorama)

Micro Four Thirds Accessories

Speed Boosters

The speed boosters allow you to adapter larger lenses such as Nikon or Canon into the MFT format. The advantage is, you gain about a stop of light plus you maintain closer field of view of the lens you’re using.

Metabones probably makes the best but they’ve been continuing to raise their prices over the years. Annoying, I know.

Metabones Nikon G to MFT – (Amazon)

Metabones Nikon G to Black Magic Pocket – (Amazon)

Metabones Canon EF to MFT S Version – (Amazon)

Metabones Canon EF to Black Magic Pocket – (Amazon)

Metabones Canon FD to MFT – (Amazon)

Metabones Olympus OM to MFT – (Amazon)

Metabones Contarex to MFT – (Amazon)

Metabones Rollei QBM to MFT – (Amazon)

Mitakon is probably the best bang for your buck if you have manual lenses. But you’re limited on your options and they will not work on the Black Magic Pocket.

Mitakon Lens Turbo Mark I Canon EF to MFT – (Adorama)

Mitakon Lens Turbo Mark I Nikon AI / AI-S – (Adorama)

Adapters

Novoflex Adapter are great quality. These will require full manual lenses with a manual aperture ring. The exception is the Nikon.

Novoflex Nikon to MFT – (Amazon)

Novoflex Leica M to MFT – (Amazon)

Novoflex Olympus OM to MFT – (Amazon)

Novoflex Canon FD to MFT – (Amazon)

The Fotasy aren’t good quality so I won’t list them.

There is another brand called Big-IS, but they can be hard to find.