Re: [OM] If you could only use one lens?

[Hilary Stone]

I posted this before but I don't think it got through and without doubt it
the Olympus lens I like the most though I don't have a huge number ­ 28mm
F2.8, 65­200, 300 F4.5 and a Tamron SP90 macro.

Without doubt its the 85mm f2 for me. The focal length is just right for so
much of the sort of mixed shots I take. For my cycling action shots it
allows me to get into the action pretty easily though it has to be said that
the OM is not the best camera to use with these as flash sync speed is
limited to 1/60 unless you've an 4Ti.  With people shots you're not right in
their faces and you can isolate them from their background by using a wider
aperture much easier than with a shorter focal length lens. And landscape
shots which for me are often seeing through windows of trees or similar type
there's a great differential focusing effect. And I just really like the
very slightly compressed perspective ­ I think its the way I view the world.
For me, longer lenses 135mm and up, you just to have to stand too far back
and shorter lenses force you to go closer than is comfortable or possible
much of the time.
    Also in combination with the 28mm it makes an extremely small package
that easily goes into Camera Care Systems bag designed for large
wonderbricks and can be taken anywhere.
Hilary Stone

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