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My experience with the Olympus 75mm f1.8

Started Jan 16, 2014 | Discussions thread
tkelly11
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Re: My experience with the Olympus 75mm f1.8

DonSC wrote:

Thanks for posting. Fantastic lizard shot! It's really great. Beautiful and sort of terrifying at the same time.

As for why would you get this lens, I think the 75mm f/1.8 may be best for indoor sports. Good focal length for that and being able to shoot wide open at f/1.8 would be most helpful in poorly lit indoor venues.

But you found all kinds of other useful subjects.

Thank you! I was quite pleased the way that one came out. I really found that at 1600 the pics came out beautifully clear, but anytihng above that in that specific scenario and there was a very noticeable degradation in image quality. So from then on, for low light stuff I have really tried to limit what I use to not go above 1600. The pics are still usable above 1600 but I just found that to be the sweet spot.

And your points re indoor sports I think would be correct, I dont do much of that type of thing but I have an airshow coming up and I am interested to see what I can do with it there. Will probably just be for shots on the ground, but the clarity you get from this lens I am hoping will bring a bit of magic to it.

Cheers

Tom

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