AG
Thanks for the advice, for starters I am looking for a 28/2.8 and or a
100/85/2.8
geeze the learning curve I am going through at present is doing my head in
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 2:23 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Lenses required
>
> Phil wrote:
> > I am looking for the following a 24/2.8 35/2.8 and 80 or 100
> > 2.8's if anyone can help much appreciated
>
> Ok, can it be any more obvious who he's been talking to? Oh, to
> totally match up with my kit, you'd need to get the 200/4, but
> your E-500 kit lenses pretty much take you out there and give
> you AF.
>
> IF your budget so allows, I'd also be looking at the F2 lenses.
> They're a bit larger, but that one-stop brightness sure makes
> focusing that much easier. I started to really fall in love
> with Joel's 100/2, so had to go into reject mode lest I part
> with $600 I didn't have.
>
> As to sharpness difference between the F2 and the F2.8 versions,
> the F2 is usually slightly sharper up to F4.5, but beyond that
> they're pretty similar. Personally, I've never owned an F2 lens
> and have found the still outstanding F2.8 versions to be the
> best all-around lenses for me.
>
> For your application, the manual-stop-down metering really won't
> be that big of a deal because you'll be in manual exposure mode
> most of the time anyway. (flash lighting). Also for your
> specific use, you'll be keeping the lenses on the bright-side of
> stop-down, meaning that you rarely will go beyond F5.6. Studio
> lighting will be bright enough to focus with most of the time
> and when not, you just crank the aperture ring wide open, focus,
> crank it back. You'll learn to count clicks right away.
>
> AG
>
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