Walt,
You are right the shots are hokey, but your revelation regarding the
aperture setting may reveal a subconscious resentment toward your zuiko
addiction. Why would you intentionally skew the results in favor of the
Tamron? I think this calls for another test but I think the board
should recommend a new composition. Regards, Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Wayman [mailto:hiwayman@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:35 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Ah, Bokeh! Or is it Hokey?
As promised, today's answer to what wasn't really even yesterday's
question:
Smokey bokey # 1 = 90/2 Zuiko macro
Smokey bokey # 2 = 90/2.8 Tamron 1:1 macro
These slides came back from processing in unnumbered plastic mounts. I
hate plastic mounts because they are slick and slippery and harder to
handle than cardboard mounts, which is precisely why I almost
immediately dropped half the bunch and got them all shuffled up. Since
they weren't numbered, I had to remove the film from the mounts in an
attempt to tell which shot was which. Because of my shoddy note-taking
when shooting, this wasn't nearly as easy or precise as it might sound.
Anyway, to make a long story short, there is some likelihood that the
Tamron shot, which does appear to have just a teeny bit more depth of
focus now that I look more closely at it, may -- just may -- have been
taken at f/9.5 instead of f/8. Since the Tamron lens has half-stop
detents, I took a couple of shots at the intermediate settings, and I
think this may, just may, be the f/8-11 one.
Anyway, to use the single word my wife says she's having engraved on my
tombstone: Whatever!
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message from hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman):
--------------
> Last summer I did a short series (about half a roll of Provia 100F) of
test
> shots to compare the 90/2 Zuiko and the 90/2.8 Tamron macros. I
couldn't tell
> any real difference. Now, since the bokeh subject has reared its fuzzy
head
> again, and because the 90/2 Zuiko is said by many to have the most
wonderful
> bokeh, I'm putting up a couple of shots, one taken with each lens.
About the
> only thing these lenses have in common is that they both have
nine-blade
> diaphragms.
>
Bla, bla, bla...snip
>
>
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-72421
4.html
>
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-72421
5.html
>
> Walt, the bokeh clod
>
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