Nifty Fifty DOF Comparison (Nikkor 50mm 1.4G and PL 25mm f1.4)

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papillon_65
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Re: Ah, yes Tony but....
In reply to tedolf, 5 months ago

tedolf wrote:

papillon_65 wrote:

tedolf wrote:

no one would shoot a 25mm lens on a 4/3 sensor if they were looking for subject isolation.

Everybody knows that you are not going to get good subject isolation with a 25mm lens on any format.

They would shoot 50mm or above, just like someone on FF would do:

Industar 52mm f/2.8 ND61

Tedolph

But that's exactly why I used it here, you'll also find numerous examples of it being used this way here

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Tony
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you used a very close camera to subject distance and a long subject to background distance, thus you cleverly manipulated the scene....

a cheap photographer's trick ! (so to speak).

If you were shooting a real person at this distance with this focal lenght you would risk some facial distortion. Maybe thisis right on the line and you could get away with it.

Tedolph

I know what you are saying Ted, and yes a longer focal length is better in the m4/3's world, but the 25mm F1.4 can be used this way and often is. Your mistake was to rule it out completely, I think you might have worded it a little better, because as you well know, rules are there to be broken 

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