75/1.8 is not for me (family/enthusiast photographer)

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Alex Notpro
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Re: 75/1.8 is not for me (family/enthusiast photographer)
In reply to Marco Cinnirella, 5 months ago

Marco Cinnirella wrote:

If it were me I might stick with the 25 - in what ways are you finding it not sufficient for your portrait needs?

The 25/1.4 is very "environmental". And is very good at that, so I'm keeping it. For the indoor candids I am actually liking the 25/1.4 on E-PM2 more than the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 on the D7000, and that's saying a lot.

But I get some stunning family snapshots from the 50/1.4 and 85/1.8 on D7000 which I was hoping could be replicated on the E-PM2 with the 75/1.8. I really wanted to get rid of the DSLR.

I'm also struggling a bit with getting the E-PM2 flash results to match the Nikon. I thought the 75/1.8 might help with that too, but it didn't. I don't really understand how metering works on the E-PM2, but it seems to be not as good as Nikon's "matrix metering" with iTTL flash.

Edited 5 months ago by Alex Notpro
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