{"id":7775,"date":"2016-07-22T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2016-07-22T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:44:44","slug":"olympus-mzd-300mm-f4-bokeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7775","title":{"rendered":"Olympus mZD 300mm f\/4 bokeh"},"content":{"rendered":"

The brilliantly designed Olympus mZD 300mm f\/4 IS PRO lens<\/a> for Micro Four Thirds<\/a> is an amazing lens in terms of compact 600mm super telephoto capabilities with near diffraction-limited optical superb resolution and almost zero aberrations.<\/p>\n

A 600mm super telephoto lens though usually has very limited utility – usually to shooting wildlife or sports at a distance.<\/p>\n

Not so this lens, it is light enough and compact enough to walk around with and with its close focus of only 1.4m, it doubles up as a close up almost macro lens to allow taking shots of small things from a distance without scaring them.<\/p>\n

It could even be used for people photography where a busy background can be compressed as well as rendered out of focus with a nice bokeh.<\/p>\n

So here are a couple of examples of the bokeh with this lens:<\/p>\n

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residual oak leaves in mid-winter.<\/p>\n

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Not sure what this plant is – a winter flowering plant I found on my walk yesterday through the Victorian goldfields, dodging incredibly deep and steep mine shafts littered all around – without any hazard protections – so one had to tread carefully indeed!<\/p>\n

As you can tell – I love these Olympus lenses because they are sharp edge-to-edge and this has freed me from having to have my subject in the centre as with most dSLR lenses – the above were shot hand held in very overcast conditions.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, 43rumors.com<\/a> has posted that Olympus has applied for patents for a couple more fascinating super-telephoto lenses around the same size as this 300mm f\/4 lens:<\/p>\n