The 7-14 is currently showing a $1,800 selling price. Yikes!
The 11-22 is a super lens, and one that I've never been sorry that I bought.
The 7-14 is overkill for most of us mortals. If I want more FOV than a 22mm
equiv, I'll put my 15mm lens on my Leica. For the number of times that I'd
really NEED the 7-14, it's much more cost effective.
If you want shallow DOF, buy the 150/2.0, or one of the new PMA, f/2.0 zooms
that have been rumoured. But the 50-200/2.8-3.5 is very nice at shallow DOF,
It's like a Zuiko 180/2.8 shot almost wide open, which produces very nice
results.
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----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs E300
From: Daniel Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:45:27 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>C.H.Ling wrote:
>> Of course I bought the 11-22
>> immediately to enjoy the fun of super wide.
>
> That's one thing that's keeping me from getting into DSLR just yet --
>Moose "sees in telephoto", whereas I "see in wide-angle", and so I'd be
>wanting to buy the 11-22 if I bought an E1/E300, but those are pretty
>expensive. (now, when the 7-14 comes out, that's going to be very tempting!)
>
>> I like DOF control (mostly shallow DOF), less than
>> 1% of my shots are at F8 or below.
>
> That's another thing -- don't you get also more DOF with smaller
>(digital) sensors because of the optics of it all?
>
> One thing that I've found with the Coolpix I have is that I get a lot
>of DOF -- which is handy for macro shots, I've taken way too many of
>those with my OMs where the DOF is so tiny you can't see anything -- but
>it's bad for portraits or isolating things against the background, and
>there's not really the fast lenses for that sort of thing yet. Shutter
>speed, sure, I like being able to dial ISO up and down if it's dark
>(because a grainy but sharp shot is better than a smooth but blurred
>shot, imho), but that's not the only thing that you get with a fast lens.
>
> -- dan
>
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