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OMD: Can I take the same pictures with the 12mm f2.0 and the 17mm f1.8 ?

Started Nov 27, 2012 | Discussions thread
wy2lam Veteran Member • Posts: 3,364
Definitely

dustpuppy wrote:

I like taking a lot of portraits and shots of people, and lots of candid shots. Would those two lenses basically be equivalent for me, with the 12mm being a wider angle ? So I could crop my shots and end up with the same thing ? Or is the 17mm more adequate for taking shots of people / portraits ?

With Caveat.

You can use a 12mm lens, a larger aperture and then and crop the result provided that you crop it enough so that you won't need to walk closer to your subject in order for it to fill the frame.

Because otherwise perspective will change and your subject is not going to like the distortion.

Also, while you can in theory get an identical composition (DOF, FOV, perspective, subject filling frame), as someone has said since the resolution changes, you won't get the same image.

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