Testing out my new Oly 45 1.8... I'm Astounded!

Moti wrote:

Those who think that the lens is not sharp enough don't know what they are talking about. It is my favourite lens for product photography where sharpness is paramount and it does an excellent job.

The thing is that some people in this forum start taking "test shots" for their new glass, which has already been tested plenty of times by experts. Most of them don't even know how to test a lens but then comes the crowd, attracted by the words "test shots" and starts to comment and to judge the lens based on faults they see in the images, which are more photographer faults than anything else, but somehow are not taken into consideration.

I dont' think this is at all what people are saying. Many people including myself said there must be something else going on since that lens is supposed to be pretty good. We were criticizing the OP's assertion that the photos were sharp, not saying the lens wasn't capable of sharp photos. We were actually saying exactly what you are, but we shouldn't let somebody think a photo is technically sound when it is not. That's how you help people get better, otherwise they might not know to fix the problems.

I don't believe in shutter shock because I never saw any evidence with any of my mirror less cameras, and your cute photo here, is another prove to it, because there is nothing wrong with it.

I don't believe Olympus would spend the money to develop a FW patch for a non existent issue. That plus many people have claimed improvement with that FW. What is more likely is some people are just very anal when it comes to details, very picky, and they notice flaws more than others. I am very picky, so it's easy for me to see flaws no matter who took the photo. If you can't see it, that's fine, but that doesn't mean others can't.

Shooting such a portrait at f/1.8 from close distance produces a very thin DOF and this is what we see hare. Nothing to do with SS.

Even if the DOF is small, there is something in focus as to judge. Same with the OP's photos posted, regardless of the F/1.8 aperture, there is something in each photo that we can judge by, regardless of the intended subject.