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RE: [OM] 90mm F2 Macro?

Subject: RE: [OM] 90mm F2 Macro?
From: jowilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:31:22 -0600
Chris,
It's there -- really really:

http://www.millennics.com/olympus/tope/gallery.html

Click "Bokeh" etc. etc.

Joel W.

>===== Original Message From Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
>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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