{"id":5826,"date":"2012-10-26T00:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2012-10-26T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:41:50","slug":"the-olympus-mzd-75mm-f1-8-lens-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5826","title":{"rendered":"The Olympus mZD 75mm f\/1.8 lens in action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympus released the Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens<\/a> for Micro Four Thirds cameras<\/a> in the middle of this year and I am now a proud owner of said lens.<\/p>\n

This is a lens that suits my style of photography and will now replace my heavy Canon 1D Mark III<\/a> pro dSLR with Canon 135mm f\/2.0L lens<\/a> as it gives a similar imagery when that lens is used at about f\/2.8 which is my usual aperture for 3\/4 body shots but is sharper, and more importantly is image stabilsied on the Olympus E-M5 camera<\/a> so that I don’t have to get too worried about camera shake at flash sync when using fill-in flash which was always an issue with the Canon.<\/p>\n

Even better, the E-M5 will allow rapid autofocus on the subject’s closest eye wherever it is within the frame, and rarely do I place the subject’s eye in the central third where the AF sensors are in dSLRs.<\/p>\n

The fast AF makes my lovely, but manual focus Rokinon 85mm f\/1.4 lens<\/a> redundant.<\/p>\n

This is a fantastic combination and made even better given the price, weight, size and the lovely bokeh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are a couple of quick shots I took on an annoyingly sunny day in a forest which gives lots of contrasty imagery and very busy backgrounds, yet the 75mm f\/1.8 handled this with ease.<\/p>\n

\"forest<\/a><\/p>\n

forest wild flowers in Victoria, Australia in Spring:<\/p>\n

\"wild<\/a><\/p>\n

and despite a field of view of a 150mm lens, the following shot taken without care was reasonably sharp even at 1\/20th sec hand held<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\"wild<\/a><\/p>\n

more shots with the 75mm lens on my Flickr set here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympus released the Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras in the middle of this year and I am now a proud owner of said lens. This is a lens that suits my style of photography and will now replace my heavy Canon 1D Mark III pro dSLR with Canon 135mm f\/2.0L lens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,3],"tags":[255,223,240,18,241,14],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-lenses","category-photography","tag-75mm","tag-bokeh","tag-e-m5","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}