02-06-2012, 05:59 PM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1328545797' post='15544']
May I suggest you get yourself a 8x10 inch camera? With an anti-scheimpflug (see [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle"]http://en.wikipedia....pflug_principle[/url] if needed), that will get you a subject separation your FF can only dream of, even with an f/1.0 lens.
To me, within the µFT context this lens makes sense. µFT is not about maximum subject separation, but neither is FF. This is the domain of even larger formats than FF.
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Read my post again, you obviously miss the point.
On FF, 200mm f2.8 and f2 lenses get a lot of subject separation. This Olympus will not. The FF lenses make sense for some people, because of that. This Olympus does not give that.
Then there is the slightly long focal length too. I don't see the target group.
Certainly not the 8x10 camera user. Which you of course did not bring up in that sense, but other than trolling I don't get why you did.
Simply put: a 150mm macro lens makes sense. A 200mm tele with large aperture makes sense. A 135mm with large aperture makes sense. All for different purposes. This one is not any of those. Not an ideal portrait lens, not an ideal large aperture tele, not a macro lens.
May I suggest you get yourself a 8x10 inch camera? With an anti-scheimpflug (see [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle"]http://en.wikipedia....pflug_principle[/url] if needed), that will get you a subject separation your FF can only dream of, even with an f/1.0 lens.
To me, within the µFT context this lens makes sense. µFT is not about maximum subject separation, but neither is FF. This is the domain of even larger formats than FF.
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Read my post again, you obviously miss the point.
On FF, 200mm f2.8 and f2 lenses get a lot of subject separation. This Olympus will not. The FF lenses make sense for some people, because of that. This Olympus does not give that.
Then there is the slightly long focal length too. I don't see the target group.
Certainly not the 8x10 camera user. Which you of course did not bring up in that sense, but other than trolling I don't get why you did.
Simply put: a 150mm macro lens makes sense. A 200mm tele with large aperture makes sense. A 135mm with large aperture makes sense. All for different purposes. This one is not any of those. Not an ideal portrait lens, not an ideal large aperture tele, not a macro lens.