Tris,
I wasn't kidding. The bokeh was outstanding, very smooth, very nice indeed. I
know the shots were not done under the most favorable lighting, time of day,
etc. etc. etc, but nothing else about them made me want to spend thousands to
get an E-1, and an adapter. The jury is still out for me on whether it would
be best to shoot digital thru my old Zuikos, or a dedicated lens made to match
a certain digital line of bodies.
I wouldn't be on this list, and shooting the OM system, a 'dead' system, if
you will, if I didn't believe strongly that Zuiko lenses are among the best
there is, but I'm just not going to get all hysterical and say I saw something
in
those shots that I didn't see. Yes, it may have been just a bokeh
demonstration, and it certainly did peak my interest in that regard, but I've
seen better
overall results thru our Zuikos on film bodies, and I'm not inclined to get
all crazy over those shots for other reasons.
George S.
tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I'm always getting burned on this stuff, where it turns out the guy was
> "just kidding." But, at the risk of being burned yet one more time (and
> just to prove that old cabbies really can't learn new tricks) . . . do you
> mean to say that you find the _content_ on these pictures to be
> unremarkable (a sentiment with which I'd agree) or that the _image quality_
> (which is what I assume the purpose of this exercise to be--to demonstrate
> the image quality possible by wedding Zuikos to the E-1) is unremarkable?
>
> Just curious.
>
> For myself, this somewhat excites my interest, perhaps not with the E-1
> specifically in mind but surely with the possibility of one day being able
> to use my Zuikos with _some_ kind of DSLR body, say, an E-2 or E-2b+7a or
> whatever the hell they'll tag it as. (My rationale for this interest stems
> from realization that I'll likely be unable to ever afford to replace what
> I have in terms of Zuiko lenses with digital counterparts, unless I'd care
> to substantially scrap my analog system in favor of digital, and that's not
> on the cards.)
>
> Tris
>
>
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