Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

[MountainMan79]

Nikkor 28mm f/2. Quickly becoming a new favorite.

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 100mm ƒ/2, by the light of a single 25-watt bulb:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 55mm ƒ/1.2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, effective 38mm ƒ/0.84:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 500mm ƒ/8 Reflex, on a Viltrox Mount Adapter EF-M2, effective 350mm ƒ/5.6:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 21mm ƒ/2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, effective 15mm ƒ/1.4:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 150mm ƒ/2:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 350mm ƒ/2.8 with OM 14-XA teleconverter, effective 500mm ƒ/4:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 90mm ƒ/2:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm ƒ/2:

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[Jan Steinman]

Olympus OM Zuiko 55mm ƒ/1.2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, for 38.5mm ƒ/0.84:

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[Jan Steinman]

Sorry I got carried away… in looking through some of my favourite images from favourite lenses, I now realize that there are very few that I do not shoot wide open!

 

[rayvonn]

Nikkor 28mm f/2. Quickly becoming a new favorite.

I bet. And thing is, this is only just the beginning, as it's very hard to find a duff AI lens of which a great many can be picked up for relative peanuts. Even the never mentioned 50mm AF-D 50mm F1.8 I often see available for $20 which no one seems to want (probably cos it looks too cheap )renders some fantastic images.

 

[rayvonn]

I now realize that there are very few that I do not shoot wide open!

I can relate to this. A lot of people confuse wanting to shoot wide open with an urge to achieve 'bokeh', that's not neccessarily the case, it's often a case of simply isolating a subject, even from far away, which draws the eye to the subject (as you have so aptly demonstrated). Or to put it another way; depth of field.

 

[Bobby T]

Sorry I got carried away… in looking through some of my favourite images from favourite lenses, I now realize that there are very few that I do not shoot wide open!

I can relate to this. A lot of people confuse wanting to shoot wide open with an urge to achieve 'bokeh', that's not neccessarily the case, it's often a case of simply isolating a subject, even from far away, which draws the eye to the subject (as you have demonstrated).

Same for me on both counts.

 

[MountainMan79]

I bet. And thing is, this is only just the beginning, as it's very hard to find a duff AI lens of which a great many can be picked up for relative peanuts. Even the never mentioned 50mm AF-D 50mm F1.8 I often see available for $20 which no one seems to want (probably cos it looks too cheap )renders some fantastic images.

I got myself 3 for Christmas, and I really enjoy the output of all of them, as well as using them. 28mm has always been my favorite focal length though, and this is really a special lens.

 

[Jan Steinman]

… it's often a case of simply isolating a subject, even from far away, which draws the eye to the subject (as you have so aptly demonstrated).

I love it when full-frame-fanatics say, "You can't do that with a postage-stamp-sized sensor!"

Yea, given identical shooting location, focal length, and focal ratio, full-frame has more subject isolation than µ4/3rds.

But that's not what we do as photographers, is it?

The goal should be to make the scene work for you, not accept the characteristics of your equipment as limiting what you can do with the scene.

It's not always available (birds and other wildlife, for example), but the single most effective way of isolating the subject is to get closer! You can do this physically with shoe-leather, or if you can't get physically closer, you can do it with optics. That's why I always carry the diminutive OM Zuiko 500/8 Reflex.

 

[rayvonn]

I love it when full-frame-fanatics say, "You can't do that with a postage-stamp-sized sensor!"

Yea, given identical shooting location, focal length, and focal ratio, full-frame has more subject isolation than µ4/3rds.

But that's not what we do as photographers, is it?

The goal should be to make the scene work for you, not accept the characteristics of your equipment as limiting what you can do with the scene.

It's not always available (birds and other wildlife, for example), but the single most effective way of isolating the subject is to get closer! You can do this physically with shoe-leather, or if you can't get physically closer, you can do it with optics. That's why I always carry the diminutive OM Zuiko 500/8 Reflex.

Whilst I'm not into really those discussions re FF that you get on mu43.com, it's definitely the case that a shot taken with my iphone in raw and worked on in the Nik suite gets me a resulting image comparable with my Z6.

 

[Coksic]

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[MountainMan79]

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[boojum]

Last night's Moo Shoo Pork. A warmup for Chinese New Years.

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