Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

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Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

Postby ozimax on Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:27 pm

I am planning on shooting a wedding on 13 October using only my EM-5 plus assorted lens. (I will take a borrowed 50D/24-105 combo as a backup).
I have added the hard-to-find and brand new Olympus 75mm F1.8 to the stable of Olympus lens. To summarise, though not cheap, it is quite outstanding. Build (made in Japan), colour retention, speed of focussing are all world class.

I took a few available light shots of a 3 year son of some friends of ours. He posed quite nicely, I thought!

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Re: Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

Postby biggerry on Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:04 pm

number 1 - he looks like a pro!
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Re: Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

Postby sirhc55 on Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:05 pm

A great camera Oz and I am sure that Sony will keep the brand alive.

Nice pics too
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Re: Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

Postby aim54x on Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:21 am

Very nice shots!

sirhc55 wrote:A great camera Oz and I am sure that Sony will keep the brand alive.


Sony only own about 11% at this point in time, but I do hope that Sony can learn a few tricks from Olympus regarding layout and image quality (truth said, the E-M5 equals the IQ - in low light - of the NEX7 despite having a smaller sensor and similar pixel pitch)
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Re: Portraits with new lens - Olympus 75mm F1.8

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:58 am

biggerry wrote:number 1 - he looks like a pro!


+1 - altho I like #2 as well :)
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