Thanks Henk. Looking at the high res image, I'd say the sharpest point is the eyes. Mid body is probably about the same plane. I shot most of these at 2.5. I'll eventually post a whole gallery. But I wanted a couple with even more background blur. There is a noticeable difference. On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
> Nice portrait. I also much like my FA 50/1.4 for portraits on digital. > But I wonder why you choose almost open lens at f1.8. There is > sufficient light available for eg f2.8 and this would bring even more > sharpness to the front of the face of the model and still have > sufficient blurring of the background. The highest sharpness > appears now > at mid-body. > > Henk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Paul Stenquist >> Sent: 07 November, 2007 12:25 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: PESO: f1.8 >> >> >> It's nice to know you have a lens you can count on to deliver >> a sharp >> image almost wide open. With the FA 50/1.4, f1.8, 1/800th, >> fill flash >> from the 540 with a softbox attachment. >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6611222 >> >> -- >> PDML >> Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
