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

dustpuppy wrote:

Hi,

I appreciate your advice about the distortion in the pictures, i'll pay attention to this kind of thing. However my main objective for now is to take in-focus pictures with my shooting style. Tihs means I need gear that focuses very fast, which is why i'm looking into the olympus lenses. The third picture I posted was using the center focus area, but either the lens or the camera focused too slowly and as result the shot was ruined.

If they are in focus if they are bad photo's?

What could you use photo # 1 for?

It is horrible and can't be shown publically.

Job No. 1 is to learn composition.

Modern cameras make exposure, focus, etc. virtually automatic if you know how to set up the camera. For expample, if you had "Face detection" activated, the third photo would have had the subject in focus as it tries to pick out the closest face to focus on. It wouldn't have fixed the problem with the 1/60 shutter speed which made the shot blurry as well, or the composition problems. You can't "buy" your way into being a good photographer with equipment. You need knowlege. The good news is that you don't need a lot, and it is easy to get by taking a class, etc.

But if you are going to try to get that knowlege by trial and error it is going to take you years. In the mean time you are really going to produce a lot of awful photo's that you may never get the chance to shoot agian.

As I said, for the kind of pictures I take, I have about a 1-second window, and I need my camera to focus extremely fast and take the shot right away.

I don't think buying the E-M5 was a waste of money, as I recognize it's an expensive toy for me, I have no need to take pictures, I just enjoy playing with it.

Then do your subjects a favor-

just take pictures of inanimate objects........or pets!

Tedolph