Anders W

What happened? It took a bit of time to get it written and when you posted it just disappeared? If so, it has happened to me several times in the last few weeks. It seems something goes wrong if...

Lots of good stuff. This is among the most iconic, I think:

You are welcome Hen3ry! Yes, I am considering those as well, especially after reading jalywol's encouraging report. For USD 60 it might be worth having them although I am not really sure I need...

That's true and if you go sufficiently close, you will of course always be able to blur the background, no matter what. And sometimes, it can be interesting to do close-ups with WAs, even fisheyes...

Not that I consider myself very educated in this department either. But when I was young I consumed quite a few photo books where the big shots showed their work. One of those I liked most at the...

I am inclined to agree. I just wanted to do my best to put it in the WA camp for this occasion. ;-) You are probably right about number #9. Never had the opportunity to try a stopped down version....

That one's good too but as you said, that would be doable with MFT as well. Just to show that it is possible to get a bit of blur with MFT WAs too, here are a few from a memorable event last...

Right. Microcontrast is. Now how do you separate the two? Which of them? Lateral CA, in-focus longitudinal CA, or out-of-focus longitudinal CA? Or are all of them equally important? Lens design...

Both of these are very good pictures Joe, and the background blur used to good effect in both. On the other hand, I am anything but convinced that they wouldn't have been just as good, perhaps even...

Perfectly correct analysis. I had no illusions about what I was up against in this regard on the WA side when I entered MFT. On the other hand, I wasn't at all bothered by it. Even when I shot FF...

I haven't used mine for landscapes much yet. Nevertheless, I am sure you are perfectly right. I know that the focal length as such is sometimes just perfect when you want to cut out a...

I simply wouldn't be torn between them. There is no reason to be. Get them both. That's what I did and I don't regret it. Nor would I worry about flattening people's faces too much with the 75. I...

For a long tele like the 75-300, close-up lenses work better. For shorter FLs, extension tubes are preferable. The reason is that a fairly weak close-up lens will give quite a bit of magnification...

I don't even understand the reason for not having a super sharp lens even if you sometimes want to use it for flattering (as opposed to characterful) portraits. A soft lens seems like a clumsy and...

Focusing on your question rather than its origin, I would say that I perceive the preferences of others as threats only when they actually threaten me. To exemplify, there was a period on this...

What I primarily had in mind when I said that we might be misunderstanding each other was your reference to "pessimism" on my part in an earlier section of your post. What you said there was, among...

Perhaps the divorce was to the benefit of both parties. ;-)

Habermas is still pretty hot, although he is nowadays primarily associated with his work on "deliberative democracy" and "the ideal speech situation". Not that either of these things are entirely...

Since I think what you say above is at least partly a reaction to things I said in the previous thread about the futility of trying to reach consensus on preferences, let me add a few comments....

Yes, the older IBIS system used in the PENs stabilizes legacy lenses too. But unlike that in the E-M5, it doesn't, to my knowledge, allow you to stabilize the EVF/LCD image while focusing...