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Re: [OM] So what Zuiko is the true Bokeh Champ?

Subject: Re: [OM] So what Zuiko is the true Bokeh Champ?
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:16:57 -0700
Ken Norton wrote:
> You'd also have to factor in digital or film photography.  The 100/2.8 bokeh 
> is AWESOME on film, not so much on digital. The 35/2.8 bokeh is downright 
> romantic in either format. The 50/1.8 gives nice shallow DoF on digital and 
> bokeh is reasonable, but the 50/3.5 has much nicer bokeh on digital than it 
> does on film.  The 300/4.5 is out of this world in either format.
>   

I'm behind on this thread, so I apologize if someone has already pointed 
this out.

I take no position on the above statements, but would like to point out 
that they make one big, unwarranted assumption. Or leave out a caveat, 
to put it another way.

You say lots of things about "digital" as though they applied to all 
DSLRs. Insofar as I can tell, they apply to 4/3, and perhaps only to one 
particular, low resolution version of 4/3. Not to say that lower 
resolution is "bad", only that it is different.

I'm not saying that they may not be true for higher resolution 4/3, APS 
and full frame sensors, only that I don't believe you have actual data 
to support those. Bokeh is obviously affected by a myriad of complex and 
sometimes subtle factors. To assume they stay the same across sensor 
sizes and resolutions without testing seems wrong to me.

Moose
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