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

Moti wrote:

Ollie 2 wrote:

sigala1 wrote:

Ollie 2 wrote:

Agreed. However, this thread is about sharpness.

Maybe I am more tolerant of this than I perhaps should be because I do it myself.

Hey baby, I'm lucky if I get one in ten...perhaps worse.

Oh, I thought the thread was going to be about astounding images. Or something astounding.

I don't see anything especially sharp, but maybe they are out of focus, the one taken at 1/100 sec probably has camera shake or shutter shock. If you left IBIS turned on, possibly all of them have the IBIS blurring, which the E-PM2 does.

Some of the images just have too much depth to look good with such a shallow DOF.

There's probably nothing wrong with the lens.

I doubt that there’s anything wrong with the lens per se. I’ve seen some pretty good results from it and I’m certain that the OP will get a lot of satisfaction from his/hers as time goes on.

It’s the least favoured Olympus lens that I own or have owned. Perhaps 90mm is not my focal length, but I simply never warmed to it like so many others clearly have.

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.

He didn't say the lens wasn't sharp enough, he said that he doesn't favor it for focal length reasons.

People shouldn't buy a lens just because its sharp if it's not a focal length they need.