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Archive for May 26th, 2008


Oly 50mm macro — now that’s good bokeh!

Published May 26th, 2008 in Gear, Images, Macro, Nature | Comments Off

As I’ve mentioned, I bought the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 macro lens for my kit a few weeks back. I’m discovering it’s a fantastic piece of glass when you want to draw a viewer’s attention to part of the frame — it gives you a very shallow depth of field (DOF) when it’s wide open, particularly up close. It also gives you really nice bokeh…