Sorry, my fault. Didn't realise that you were talking DOF!
It's why I just bought the 40mm Panny - to get a bit more shallow.
Of course, there's always a blur layer in PS as a last resort. :-)
Andrew Fildes
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On 07/01/2010, at 1:04 AM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Come on, I though you guys knew me by know...
>
> Light intensity stays the same, yes, but depth of field of a 40mm f/
> 1.4 on Micro4/3 is
> the same as 80mm f/2.8 on full frame, or 150mm f/5.6 on my Mamiya, or
> 300mm f/11 on
> my Linhof.
>
> No way will an image made with a 40/1.4 on Micro4/3 look the same as
> an image made
> with an 80/1.4 on 35mm. Not only will DOF be much, much deeper, the
> 40mm lens would
> have to resolve twice as well as the 80/1.4 lens. That's not very
> likely, unless you are
> putting a Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 ASPH on your Micro4/3.
>
> When it comes to portrait lenses, shallow DOF is everything :-)
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