etrigan63
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Universal Lagoon by Carlos Echenique, on Flickr
Lightroom panorama composed of 5 33s live composites.
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Final Fantasy
To me the main difference is 90usd VS 4000usdI like his glasses from this year and his hairstyle from a year ago best
Both seem excellent lenses, main difference is the bokeh. The PEN lens seems slightly more busy maybe caused by the lens design or maybe just an attribute of the slightly smaller maximum aperture as well as the inherent larger dof of the 4/3 sensor size.
But these differences are quite small, both are fine portraits!
Another great example that value doesn't equal price :toocool:To me the main difference is 90usd VS 4000usd
Teera, I think the lower dof (and therefore unsharp sideburns, ears and hair) leads to a different atmosphere vs. the larger dof of the second picture. The first is more dreamy, the second more reportage/formal portrait. It's not so much what is "better", but what the photographer, or the person being portrayed, is looking for. But you can always close the aperture of the Lux if so desired, but there is no way to further open and reduce dof for the PenF lens. The thing I notice most when comparing the pictures are however the brighter/broader light rings around the oof highlights of the PenF. But bokeh is very much a matter of taste, some people want smooth, others can't get enough of swirls and bubbles. So my input would be that they are different, but very hard to qualify one as objectively better. Subjective you can get a broad array of opinions, all valid but very personal.Thanks Pegelli for the comments and compliments. I will experiment this lens with backgrounds that have more highlight to see how busy they're rendered. But I quite like the background rendering of the 38mm's image above probably due to its rather low contrast and not distracting the main subject.
By the way the sideburns, ears and hair of the Lux's image are out of focus. Do you prefer this than the penf's image?
My casual comparison: Pen-F with Penf 38/1.8 VS Sony A7RM2 with Summilux-M 75/1.4
....The Lux image of his eyes show a very slight softening? Probably not the lens at all but the camera's focusing if it was AF? Oly's AF with the correct focusing point set usually nails it time after time in reasonable light. Just realised that the Lux is a manual focus lens! Whoops....no excuse then!