I just threw up a gallery here after wandering around Sydney (Circular
Quay) a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/ep2_sydney
All with the Panasonic 20mm except the bottom row with the 70-300mm,
shot through my hotel room window. I continue to be impressed with
this lens. A friend I saw last Sunday claims that it is better than
the 50-200mm SWD he just bought (I suggested he send that one back for
another example). His absolute favorite is the 14-35mm f2.
I did apply a little sharpening to some of the Panny images - the
ferry for instance (look in the sky in the centre edge!) - but the
taxi, the buskers and the BW shots are not sharpened at all.
40mm is perfect for a street lens I find - I don't miss the extra of a
35mm. It allows me to stand a little further off and the extra depth
of field of the 20mm is an advantage. Oh, and it was a sunny day so it
was wearing a hood too.
Andrew Fildes
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On 02/03/2010, at 9:36 AM, manuel viet wrote:
> Le lundi 01 mars 2010 23:16:18, Ken Norton a écrit :
>> Well, this is a little difficult for me because I prefer the 35mm
>> equivalent focal length the Olympus 17/2.8 offers. In my own
>> testing of
>> the lens, I found it to be very comfortable, but the barrel
>> distortion is
>> a little too over the top for me. There is substantial CA (chromatic
>> aberration) too. But the bokeh characteristics are very nice.
>
> My 24x36 focal of choice is 28mm. But I don't expect a 14mm prime in
> my price
> range soon. So I was ready to give up some FOV, and as I also have
> fond
> memories of my Canonet 40/1.7, I was already tipping toward the Pany.
>
> But all my OM-Zuikos so far have been so sharp that I was ready to
> live with a
> 2.8 aperture and an alien (to my taste) focal length provided the
> lens was as
> sharp as any OM prime of the good ol'days. Clearly, this isn't the
> case. So
> for the time being, pany's the winner.
>
> Thank you for the input anyway, as always, my plans may vary. It
> wouldn't be
> the first time a carefully laid out buying scheme I make is
> unexpectidly turned
> upside down by an offer I can't possibly resist... (While I tend to
> see this as
> pure luck, my wife more or less thinks it's mostly a curse. Go
> figure...)
>
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>
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