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Subject: [OM] Re: Slightly OT Tokyo recommendations
From: Thomas Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:54:46 +0100

On 3 Feb 2005, at 20:02, Daniel Mitchell wrote:

> Thomas Clausen wrote:
>> If you are going to go temple-visiting, think "fast, before long". If
>> you have a 55/1.2 or 50/1.2, you will appreciate it. I fully approve 
>> of
>> the 21mm and 85/2 also ;)
>
>   That's another question -- do people actually find the faster ends of
> these lenses to be useful? I've tried taking photos indoors with a
> 50/1.4 wide open, and while I can get a lot less hand shake than I 
> would
> with it at f4, the depth of field is so small that I end up with so 
> much
> of the shot being out of focus the end result isn't much better.
>

Think: viewfinder-brightness and ease of focusing in the inside of a 
secluded temple....

Also, a shallow depth-of-field does have its artistic advantages that I 
wouldn't trade in.


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