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):
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> 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-724214.html
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-724215.html
>
>
> Walt, the bokeh clod
>
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