An f/2.0 lens produces the same depth of field, regardless of the sensor or
film size,
If you mount a 90/2 Zuiko Macro on an E-1, it functions at the equivilant
magnification of a 180mm lens, but still retains all the depth-of-field,
perspective, and working distance characteristics of a 90mm lens.
You could get the same result by cropping a 4/3-sized rectangle out of a piece
of 35mm film.
Oh, and the 14-54 is very nice. It's not as good as the other two lenses
though. Just be aware that the 11-22 isn't very long. I've got the three
zooms, which are all very good, with the 11-22 and 50-200 a notch above their
brother.
Skip
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Subject: [OM] Hi, Re + E-1 obsession
From: Peter Leyssens <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:55:31 +0200
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>Hi & Re,
>
>I'm Peter Leyssens, I've resubscribed myself for the upteenth time to
>this warm list of congeniality and wretched peer pressure that has
>already cost me a fortune. I see Jez&Iwert are still around, I remember
>our Oly nice day out in Tongeren, maybe we should do this sort of OM
>meet again, it was fun.
>
>I'm in this phase in my life where I don't make too many photographs,
>and obviously, more hardware is the solution. I mean, even a retired
>photographer friend of mine has switched to digital ! He frequented a
>local pub for 2 years to nag about the state of affairs in photography
>until a friend told him he should switch to digital, because he already
>has the experience and he is lightyears ahead of all teenies who dance
>akwardly on the tips of their toes while squinting to make sense of the
>LCD that shows more reflections of what's behind them than the snapshot
>horror they're trying to admire. So he switched, and he's not looking
>back. I can't stay behind ! Aside from sheer lens envy and recurring
>Zuikoholism, being a computer techie since the age of 12, I'm looking
>forward to taking photos I can show to the world right away.
>
>Here's my master plan:
>
>1) Get myself a E-1 + 14-54 kit. I don't care for the 14-54 lens, as
>I'm not a fan of standard lenses. Additionally, I didn't like the bokeh
>I've seen in pictures online. But AFAIK only this kit is eligible for
>50% educational discount in Europe. Anybody has experience with this ?
> I'd buy the camera in the Netherlands, while I'm in Belgium. Any
>problem with that ?
>
>2) 11-22, say no more. Maybe a 50-200 in the long term.
>
>3) OM adapter. I'm hoping the dealer will throw in one he gets free
>with the educational discount :) I have a RealZuik(tm) 28/2.8, 50/1.4,
>90/2.0, 75-150/4 and 200/4 that would look nice in front of the new
>body. My B-300 1.7x teleconverter would turn that 200/4 into a 680/4+,
>which sounds sufficiently outrageous to brag about :) I read John
>Foster's overview of the OM adapter on the E-1 body, and it would seem
>that most of these lenses would be okay. But I have a question. Is
>diaphragm automatic, or does it need to be click-stopped before
>exposure, or does the DOF preview need to be pressed while taking the
>picture ? How does this work ? Any other weird things in use ?
>(except for the overexposure when wide open, I read about that)
>
>Then another question. It's all very nice to have a 50mm/2.0 digital
>macro, or a 90/2 RealZuik(tm), which are then 50mm resp. 180mm
>equivalents with an effective light input of f2.0. But the DOF
>increases by 2 stops, giving an effective DOF equivalent of an f4.0 on
>OM bodies. I mean, there's no way to get the nose tip of the nice lady
>at
>http://www.millennics.com/olympus/tope/tope_show_entry.php?event=5&pic=2
>out of focus with f4.0 ! Imagine the horror !
>
>How do others feel about this ? I haven't seen it mentioned in the
>archives. But then I only skimmed through April and May, which already
>took me several hours :) I don't remember where I read about this
>first, but I have a DOF calculation spreadsheet that confirms my
>findings. It's of course nice for certain photographs to have wide DOF
>while still getting lots of light in, but sometimes I just want that
>micrometer DOF.
>
>Do most of you use PhotoShop ? Any PaintShop Pro users ? I've been
>experimenting with a scan to turn it into B&W using color curves or
>Carr's method, with varying results, but then I'm fairly n00b at that.
>
>
>
>Peter.
>
>
>
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