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Re: [OM] OM-5D macro comparisons

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-5D macro comparisons
From: Dawid Loubser <dawid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:39:07 +0200
On 31 Jan 2012, at 1:35 AM, Moose wrote:

> On 1/30/2012 5:04 AM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>> ...
>> People should stop obsessing about lens differences, and focus on
>> their composition and light :-)
>
> LOL!
>
> Great advice - and especially so from you. ;-)
>
> Moose


Indeed... As time moves on and I move further and further away from my  
digital days, my only metric is what a photograph looks like on a  
print. By this metric, the most significant contributor of print image  
quality for me these days is film format size, and not lens quality.  
Of course certain lenses like the Zuiko 90/2.0 have an indescribably  
great rendering on B&W film, but even the lowliest junker of a  
standard lens on my Mamiya RB67 produces a print that is so far  
superiour as for comparison to be totally meaningless. And then lets  
not talk about large format.

My 1:1 *macro* shots on large format, with my throwaway (wort probably  
$50, scratched etc) 1950 Schneider-Kreuznach Convertible Symmar 150mm  
standard lens, are of superiour technical quality to anything I can  
achieve with the OM system. This is an example which i could never  
achieve with the OM system, never mind with film pushed to ISO1600.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/150/a/e/twice_bitten__not_shy_by_philosomatographer-d3hky2o.jpg

I subsequently upgraded to a modern APO-Symmar 150/5.6 - one of the  
great Large Format lenses - and the differences between these lenses  
are mostly meaningless. I'm glad I kept the old junker, and I use it  
often. Because it has a self-timer :-)

Dawid
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