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Subject: [Leica] Focusing test of Oly E-500 - B. D. PAW
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Oct 29 13:41:11 2005

I think you had a bad one. I'll send you a couple of images.


On 10/29/05 4:28 PM, "David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote:

> I don't think its better than the 11-22 at all. Everytime I used that
> thing I got nothing but soft, soft photos that simply didn't cut it.
> It was in no way sharp - not even close. When I sold it I remember
> thinking that this was what the old sigma/tokina/etc lenses used to
> look like in the 80s - suck, suck, suck.
> 
> Perhaps mine was defective, or perhaps I am actually out of my
> bleeping mind - but it was B A D.
> 
> Oh, I used it on an E300 with updated firmware - hunt, hunt, hunt. Suck.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I have found that it definitely hunted on the E-1, but was much better on
>> the E-300 and E-500 - the reality being that Olympus has improved the
>> autofocus in the body. As to it's not being sharp - yr out of yr bleeping
>> mind; that lens is markedly better than the zooms. ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/29/05 2:13 PM, "David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Weren't the subway shots done with the 50mm lens? I had that lens for
>>> a while and sold it because  it "hunted" far too much in AF and
>>> usually lost the hunt. Plus, it wasn't the sharpest of the lot either
>>> - not a good lens, especially considering how good that 11-22mm lens
>>> is - that thing has to be one of the sharpest I have ever owned...
>>> including my Leica lenses.
>>> 
>>> opinions are mine
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/29/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> I present these purely as an equipment test, NOT as examples of 
>>>> photography
>>>> worth comment.:-)
>>>> But after all the back and forth about where the E-500 was or wasn't
>>>> focusing...
>>>> I think I focused on the right-hand eye - my right hand - in both of
>>>> these..
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Qtip1
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Qtip2
>>>> Both were shot with the E-500, 11-22 mm zoom at 11 (35 mm equiv is 22 
>>>> mm) -
>>>> f 2.8, 400 iso. This result suggests to me that any focusing errors in
>>>> those
>>>> subway shots were mine, and had to do with train motion, my motion, and
>>>> shooting in haste to avoid being punched - :-) - and had nothing to do 
>>>> with
>>>> the camera.
>>>> 
>>>> And, yes, her name is Qtip - she's all white with a smudge on the top of
>>>> her
>>>> head. I kept trying to force every one to call her Mona, because she was
>>>> doing that constantly until she was, uh, altered. But needless to say, I
>>>> lost out on that one. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
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