>Hi guys.
>
>I am a new signatory to this list so please bear with me as I muddle through
>my first post. One thing is certain though - I am a committed Zuikoholic and
>will be til the day I die. I am 27,
Ah, the convictions of youth, I love it.....
>The only thing I miss to this day with my
>Oly gear is the absence of second/rear-curtain synch (obviously impossible
>with
>only 1 curtain!!!!) which enables some beautiful combined ambient/flashlit
>shots that are PERFECTLY suited to band/performance photography.
All focal plane shutters as far as I know have 2 curtains....but more to the
point, rear curtain synch, as experts like Doris Fang will tell you, enables
the smeared, out of focus ghost image to trail a moving object with the sharp
image leading the ghost image, thus giving a good illusion of movement. With
regular slow speed flash exposure and regular "X" synch, the ghost image
leads the sharp one, thus not giving a good illusion of movement. You can
still mix ambient and flash with OM cameras however, just not a realistic
illusion (<g>) of movment.
I don't know all of the advantages of the F280/4T combination beyond the
obvious ablity to do fill flash in bright daylight with OTF TTL flash
control.
> Also, my Road to
>Damascus moment came when I did a big spring clean one year and marvelled at
>the higher percentage of relatively sharper shots produced on the OLY gear.
...but of course, we all knew that.....<g>
>Of course. See, during the high-turnover, deadline driven environment of
>publishing, simply getting the workload away meant no real time to peruse
>the print/tranny quality. They were all good enough for publication, as
>newsprint is a crap repro medium. But upon further inspection, the overly
>expensive EOS gear (continually being updated and therefore depreciating my
>gear) was really, performance wise, no-better than my OLY stuff.
>
Try using Canon gear in a tropical rainforest or on the top of a mountain!
>My reason for posting is thus: can anyone give me some "in use" appraisal of
>the 85mm f2's performance and sharpness? I have been searching for a
>dedicated portrait lens for some time now and - though I obviously drool at
>the thought of a 100mm f2 - have been left high and dry by the small local
>used OLY market.
It's a great lens, but you'll never be happy until you have a 100/2! <g>
--
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the
usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody
thinks of complaining."
-- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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