And don't forget the 50mm f2 macro. The forgotten best of fifties:).
Iwert
2010/2/2 Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Ken, I am curious as to how you chose your list of Zuikos that
> apparently isolate
> subjects from the background well? Does it not simply have to do with
> large-ish
> aperture, and personal experience?
>
> As a case in point, you did not mention the 24/2, but when
> photographing subjects
> closer than 2 meters I feel it has phenomenally beautiful, and subtle,
> subject
> isolation.
>
> Also, you curiously omit the 50/1.8 "underdog" which, though I am not
> a user of, others
> claim it has splendid out-of-focus image rendition, and surely a
> 50/1.8 will isolate
> any subject better than a 28/2?
>
> Then there's the 40/2?
>
> Perhaps I am just yanking your chain here, but I am curious as to why
> this particular list?
>
> :-)
>
>
> On 01 Feb 2010, at 11:09 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>>
>> background. My Mamiya Press and 645 didn't have the same
>> characteristic. A
>> handful of Zuikos are the same way in background isolation as well
>> as the
>> lenses from the Contax 645AF.
>>
>> Classic Wide and Normal Zuikos that I think qualify:
>> 28/2
>> 35/2
>> 50/1.2
>> 50/1.4
>> 50/3.5
>> 35-80/2.8
> <snip>
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