OMG...tell me thiis guy is wrong about micro four thirds

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
danijel973
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Re: Isnt there something wrong here?
In reply to Detail Man, 7 months ago

Detail Man wrote:

35mm just allows you to have a looser framing and keep the same DoF, which is why 35mm is much, much better for full body portraiture.

You change between different format camera bodies in order to change the framing of subjects (while keeping Focal Length, F-Number, and Camera to Subject Distance constant) ???

I just grab my 5d and 85mm when I want a full body portrait with good isolation, because it's better for that purpose.

But for head&shoulders portraiture there really is no great difference.

But that would be roughly the same framing (would it not?), thus changing the DOF ...

Yes, but the DoF is thin enough there that you need to stop down even with the 4/3 if you want to get the ears decently sharp. The differences are between hair-thin and razor-thin.

But of course people love comparing 35mm with 85mm f/1.8 with E-M5 with f/6.3 kit lens, and when they can't get decent portraiture with f/5.6 or f/6.3 on 4/3 they don't realize it's not 4/3 that's the problem.

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