The Ultimate Micro 4/3 Lens List

This is a complete list of just about every lens available for Panasonic and Olympus micro four-thirds cameras. Including native brands and third party brands. 

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.

I’ve listed all the 35mm equivalency alongside the lenses to make things a little easier if you’re coming from that world. I’ve also built a 35mm equivalency calculator.

Can I use Olympus lenses on Panasonic and visa versa?

Olympus lenses and Panasonic lenses are interchangeable between systems and you can even use them on Blackmagic cameras. Autofocus will work but you’ll sometimes lose some advance lens functionality like OIS and there could be a reduction in the IBIS performance. 

Each camera IBIS system is designed to work with the OIS of the lens for enhanced performance, you will lose this if you mix and match lenses.

Panasonic lenses with aperture rings as well as function buttons will also not function on Olympus and Blackmagic cameras. You have to control the aperture through the camera.

M43 Olympus Lenses

Olympus M43 Zoom Lenses – Full Auto

A list of all of 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

Panasonic has this funky little 3D lens that’s interesting.

Third-Party Micro Four Thirds Lenses

Lensbaby Tilts

Lensbaby is an American company that makes specialty art lenses for special effects, tilts, macro, or just fun. Some of the lenses like the Burnside have an effects aperture for applying different looks.

Tamron M43 Zoom – Full Auto

Surprisingly this is the only Tamron MFT lens. They are one of the best third-party lens companies out there.

Sigma M43 Primes – Full Auto

Sigma has a few great options for the micro four-thirds system and they offer really good performance for the price.

Samyang / Rokinon  Primes – Full Manual

Samyang is a brand that has really blossomed over the last few years. Ten years ago they just made decent lenses, today their lenses are actually really good. Good coatings, good optical designs and they’ve really improved their build quality. Definitely don’t ignore Rokinon lenses. I have several of them for my APS-C system and they come very close to rivaling Fujinon lenses.

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 lenses are actually fantastic for the price. Voigtlander also makes their primes in an 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

Yasuhara is a Japanese designer who has released a few interesting designs. He’s is also developing more full-frame lenses like the Anthy 35mm. Hopefully, these full-frame lenses end up with micro four-thirds mount since they are small and perform very well.

Chinese Micro Four Third Lenses

This section includes all the Chinese made lenses. Not for any particular reason other than, many of these lens companies come from the same manufacturing plants. So they’ll mix up the aperture or the build, maybe change the element then come out and market themselves as a different brand. For example, Opteka lenses are very similar to Meike lenses.

There are some very good Chinese lenses, like Kamlan, Kipon, Loawa, even SLR Magic / ZY Optica is getting better. At this point, you could probably safely say Kipon could even rival Voigtlander with build and performance. At least they are very close.

Kamlan lenses are also very well constructed, but some of their older builds aren’t as great optically. All their latest lenses have been very good.

7Artisans Micro 4/3 Lenses

7Artisan is a Chinese company that makes really inexpensive third-party lens for the various mounts. 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 imaged quality as much as it is the 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. You can get good lenses from them, but just be sure to check them over the day you get them and return them if there are any issues.

One thing to look for is a focus drift. After you focus the element might try to pull back under the displacement of the air inside the lens this is very common with the 25mm f1.8.

Kamlan Micro Four Thirds Lenses

Kamlan Micro Four Thirds lenses have some incredible build quality. Some of their early optical designs were a bit hit and miss but their MK II lenses are very good and they’ve really grown as a lens company. You should definitely pay attention to their new lens releases.

There is a Kamlan 50mm f1.1 version one that you can still find. It’s not their greatest lense because of very poor corner performance and field curvature. But on Micro Four Thirds it’s not a bad lens. I personally really love their 50mm f1.1 mark II. Super fun, but much heavier. It’s in my top 10 favorite third-party lenses.

Kipon Lenses

Kipon makes various lenses in various mounts. They currently make the Ibelux 40mm specifically for the micro four-thirds mount. You can use their Iberit lenses in a Leica Mount and adapt them to Micro Four Thirds. Kipon also makes some of the best adapters for the price. They are ab it more expensive than the cheaper adapters but the quality is much better.

The Ibelux 40mm f0.85 II is actually a solid lens and performs very well for an f0.85. It’s just big.

Laowa Lenses

Laowa is a very interesting brand that produces some very unique lenses unlike anything out there. One of their specialties is to make ultra-wide lenses that have no distortion.

Meike Lenses

Meike is the most practical of cheap Chinese lenses.

They don’t produce any crazy cheap ultra-fast lenses which never produce great image quality. Rather they make good f1.8 to f2.8 lenses that perform well. The build quality of their lenses is also pretty tough.

Mitakon M43 Primes

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. They tend to use a lot of highly refractive polymers for their speed masters to simulate the fast apertures, but they don’t usually perform at a T stop in those ranges.

My biggest problem is weekend couch reviewers always give them high praise, but the durability isn’t there if you’re going to use the lenses all the time. I’ve had many SLR Magic / Mitakon lenses and they just don’t hold up, which is a bummer because they can be a lot of fun. They do continue to get better as they make more lenses, so always keep an eye out for new releases.

Opteka Lenses for Micro Four Thirds

It looks like Meike and Opteka are sharing both optical designs and mechanical designs. They might be the same lenses just rebranded.

Photex Tilt-Shift Lens

Yongnuo M43 Lenses

Third-Party M43 Cinema Lenses

DZO Cine Lenses For M43

DZO makes some parafocal cinema zoom lenses.

IRIX Cine Lenses For M43

Irix makes very high-quality cinema lenses. The IRIX cine lenses are actually designed for larger sensor cameras but they do make them in a Micro Four Thirds mount as well. Since they are mechanical lenses you could always order them in a PL or Canon EF mount and then adapt them to your different cameras.

SLR Magic M43 Lenses

SLR Magic lenses come from the family of Mitakon or ZY Optics. They are essentially OEM Mitakon lenses with different mechanical arrangements for cinema purposes.

With ZY Optic lenses, watch out for sticky focus, which happens a lot in sub-freezing conditions which I’m not sure they’ve resolved yet.

Some of their lenses you can order with ND filter kits.

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)

Sirui Cine Micro Four Thirds Lens

Sirui is a new anamorphic lens to hit the market and it comes in at a very competitive price compared to the other anamorphic lenses out there.

The Sirui 50mm f1.8 will produce a squeezed aspect ratio of 2.4:1 when shot onto a 16:9 sensor.

Vazen Cine Micro Four Thirds Lens

Vazen produces Anamorphic Cinema lenses for the Micro Four Thirds Mount. Anamorphic lenses use a curved front element to compress the image hitting the sensor. In post-production, the image is stretched lack out for a widescreen view. It can be a little difficult to calculate the 35mm equivalency for an Anamorphic lens because a 28mm lens will have a 56mm equivalency in terms of the look and compression, but it produces a much wider image with a field of view more similar to a 35mm lens.

There are different levels of Anamorphic compression but the Vazen lenses use a 1.8x compression for a 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

There is no information about how many elements they use.

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 versions, 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.

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 a closer field of view of the lens you’re using.

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

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

More Speed Boosters

Metabones Canon EF to MFT XL 0.64x
Metabones Canon EF to MFT Ultra 0.71x
Metabones Canon EF to MFT Black Magic Pocket 4K 0.71x
Viltrox EF-M2 EF to MFT 0.71x
Viltrox EF-M 2 II EF to MFT 0.71x
Kipon Baveyes Ultra Auto Focus EF to MFT 0.7x
Kipon Baveyes EF to MFT 0.7x
Kipon Baveyes M42 to MFT II 0.7x
Pixco Pro Focusing Infinity EF to MFT 0.7x
Pixco Pro Focusing Infinity FD to MFT 0.7x
Pixco Pro Focusing Infinity Minolta MD to MFT 0.7x
Pixco Pro Focusing Infinity M42 to M43 0.7×2

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.