The widest lenses I have are the kit lenses of my DSLR and the Pen, which both have 14mm. Together with the crop factor of 2 of the Olympus (Micro-) Four Thirds sensors, that is equivalent to an 28mm lens on a 35mm film camera. Just what I had some 30+ years ago with my analog Canon camera. Today I decided to use the Pen with its kit lens at this wide end.
The first photo I’ll show here was taken during lunch break between the buildings opposite of the ones where I work – so these are not my colleagues. Arno was standing beside me, just outside of the frame:
Of course using a wide angle lens means that we were much closer to these people than it looks here. That’s the “problem” with wide angles: you have to get real close. Not everyone likes that.
The second one shows Arzu at work (I’ve made portraits of her before). The reason why I show this one here is that I have no idea why her left eye – and only her left eye, plus some wood in the foreground are in sharp focus, and the rest is most probably blurred because I wasn’t steady enough. The only explanation I have is that Arzu possibly moved in exact the same direction like me, and that direction was somehow parallel to the wood…
Strange but fascinating, this thing called photography, isn’t it?
Thanks for viewing.
Hi Wolfgang,
Iso 100??? f 1: 5.6 ???? You had not been expected (sorry for my english, is it gramatically correct?) to receive something that can called exactly a sharp photo, have you? But this is the way to explore something really new: I think the sharp left eye has nothing to to with moving of the subject. Probably it is a problem of the IS also at 1/3 of a second (same Problem the E-pl 1 has had before May 2010 (before Version 1.1) with times between 1/100 and 1/160 s – some users say that mediocre problems are still there and suggest to switch the IS normaly to “off” and use it just when the times became really to long for hand hold). So the Olympus Guys must think about a new firmware update just because of your photo
. Perhaps it has just something to do how the IS works (it is exactly the center of the pic, wich is clear) -The axis of the IS may cross each other at that point or so.
Speaking of clearity I found this youtube video yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8mEMBHESY
I was very surprised of the Importance to choose excelent lenses (the 20 mm Pana and the 45 mm M-Zuiko) also for Video and specially for night shots. The movie seems to be overwhelming sharp. I did´t thought, that also with a Resolution of 1080 (wich is just about a third of the vertical resolution (lines per high of the picture) the E-Pl 1 would be able to do, the choice of lens seems to be so important. Also it is a very nice and well cut (Sony Vegas 11 Production Suite) 1:30 video! Nice comments of the Video freaks (about Panasonic hacks and so).
Hmmm IS related – that’s an interesting thought. Oh, and thanks for the link to that video, which indeed is awesome! And yes, it proves that with chosing excellent lenses, no never do wrong. I recommend both of them, and together they’re still cheaper (or about as much) as that fantastic PanaLeica 25mm…