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Re: [OM] 90mm F2 Macro?

Subject: Re: [OM] 90mm F2 Macro?
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:01:31 +0000
Cc: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hmm Joel, I looked eagerly for your name under "Bokeh", but to no
avail.  Your "Portrait" entry, sweet though it is, does not really
have bokeh given the plain background.  So... where is your 90/2 shot?

Chris

At 07:31 -0600 10/02/03, Joel Wilcox wrote:

The 90/2 goes to 1:2, so it is a fairly conservative macro lens.  I
have a Vivitar 100/2.8 that goes 1:1.  It is possibly more versatile
as a macro, but it is softer wide open and very long and unwieldy
when fully extended.  Which is fine for macro, but the 90/2 gets
used for lots of other things too, even portraiture and general
photography.

It has both good sharpness and contrast, but it is neither the
sharpest nor contrastiest Zuiko.  Some function of these two
qualities, combined with the focal length, makes photos with shallow
DOF usually look very attractive, as the sharp area sits against the
sometimes rather creamy blur of the background (usually the
background, but sometimes the foreground -- see my TOPE entry under
the category of "Bokeh").  This conjunction of focal length, blur,
and sharpness is what people refer to as the "bokeh" of the 90/2.

Recanting my slur of the blur,
Joel W.


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