An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks


Archive for April 8th, 2008


Shorty gets to work with the puschkinia…

As I mentioned in my last post, I bought an adapter so I could use my old (1979) Zuiko 50mm / f1.8 lens on my E-510. I’d heard that this combination was really bright, and thought that this would help in situations where I wanted to focus attention on a subject using a tight depth of field (i.e., subject in focus with everything in the foreground and background out of focus).

So I put “shorty” on the ‘510, went out in the yard, and practiced on some early (for Colorado) spring flowers…