I assume the 14-50 you speak of is the Panasonic 14-50mm f/3.8-5.6
Vario-Elmar. Why would you even consider this lens as anything to be
compared against the OM Zuiko 50 at f/2.8 when the Panasonic is
operating at f/5.6 at 50mm? At f/5.6 the DOF is doubled over f/2.8.
There are f/2.8 and faster lenses available for four thirds. You just
don't have comparable test conditions. Furthermore, you are trying to
defend four thirds against 35mm using a four thirds vs four thirds test
in addition to incomparable lenses. Doesn't make sense.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> OK, we've all said it, we've fought it, and we've been tempted to go
> full-frame because of it. That's right, it's the DoF and selective
> background issue with FourThirds.
>
> Personally, I maintain that it's optics more than format--even though format
> does help matters as seen in the Bokeh Guitar photograph. Today, I've posted
> a new photograph on Zone-10 taken with the Zuiko 50/1.4 mounted on the
> Panasonic L1.
>
> Things to note:
> 1. Metered by hand with the Sekonic L508
> 2. White-balance manually set for the stage lighting
> 3. Shot at around F2.8 to fatten up the DoF as it was too narrow wide-open
> and she was moving so I needed to cover for focus slop in tracking the point
> where the bow met the strings.
> 4. In-camera JPEG. Resize only. Absolutely no PP done to the image.
> 5. The purple is the LED background stage lighting.
> 6. I think that was at ISO 800.
>
> A several personal thoughts about this:
> 1. The L1 is an extremely fine camera which met and exceeded my every
> expectation--but that was already established in other posts.
> 2. Thinking ahead and using an incident light meter allowed me to avoid
> bracketing safety shots and resulted in a perfectly exposed instrument. A
> good thing, as I metered for the OM-3Ti first and then moved the lens and
> same settings over to the L1.
> 3. The 50/1.4 is a blast to use.
> 4. The same settings (or as close as possible) on the 14-50 zoom lens
> resulted in a substantially different picture--one which confirms the
> general opinions about crop-sensor cameras.
>
> As always:
>
> www.zone-10.com
>
> AG (sometimes not AG) Schnozz
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|