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Subject: [OM] Re: : Confession time + Zuiko notes
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:15:35 +1100
Thanks for your comments Brian.

I did a few more tests this afternoon comparing the OM Zuiko 24/2.8 (MC) and
the 50/1.8 MIJ to the 14-45mm on the E-300.

There wasn't much to choose between them, if anything the 14-45 is a little
bit sharper than both the 24/2.8 and 50/1.8 at roughly equivalent focal
length (25mm & 45mm) and same aperture.  Of course the OM Zuikos were
designed to cover 4 times the area of the 14-45.  Bokeh looked pretty much
identical.  One surprise was that the 50/1.8 shots had a distinct green cast
in comparison to the 14-45 and the 24/2.8 with the WB set on 5300K for all
images.  Another surprise was the exposure using the old Zuikos, the 24
looked pretty much identical to the 14-45 wide open and by f16 looked about
1/2 stop underexposed.  The 50/1.8 looked about 1/2 stop underexposed at
f1.8 and about 1 stop underexposed at f16, so on the whole a pretty good
result. 

...Wayne

> 
> Nice photos.  I especially like the one of the dried thistle 
> seed-heads.
> 
> Also the B&W shot.
> 
> The bokeh of the shot of the rusty wire with grass in the 
> rear is just what 
> you'd get with any lens and a busy background like that is. I 
> bet any lens will 
> do about the same. The background is just too finely textured 
> with a fine 
> contrasty grid of dried grass stems. Period.
> 
> And the shot of the back-lit leaves with little specks of 
> bright sky showing 
> through the tree canopy behind; well that bokeh is equally 
> predictable; in fact 
> I've got a very good lens or two which would yield lots worse 
> bokeh in that 
> situation. At least they are not "O"-rings !!
> 
> Have fun Wayne. It's a whole another experience, not to mention 
> convenience.
> 
> Somebody mentioned using OM lenses on an E body.
> 
> Although I am not on the position of being able to compare 
> with ZD macro 
> lenses, I am very happy with using a Zuiko 50/3.5 macro on 
> the E-1 to copy 
> old B&W (often sepia) prints. Old, as in more than 100 years old.
> 
> I set the exposure evaluation mode to central mode only, and 
> the EV to 
> minus 1.7. Minus even more if there is a lot of bright white 
> such as dresses 
> that I want to catch the detail of.  Although I can't work 
> miracles, it's amazing 
> how much detail is sometimes in these old prints.  Most of them are 
> professional studio prints and can be quite sharp, and 
> usually printed "soft" I 
> think it is; very non-contrasty anyway. The amateur photos 
> however, were 
> usually processed by a chemist (pharmacist to some people) or their 
> contractor, and are often very contrasty. They are hard work 
> to get nice.
> 
> I am using these shots for web display. Just for fun I should 
> get one or two 
> printed full size on paper, to really test the copying..
> 


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