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Show me your Micro Four Thirds (MFT M4/3) bokeh shots!!!

 
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Nov 25, 2012 20:38 |  #1

Hey guys...

So I'm really, really, REALLY wanting an Olympus OM-D right now. I travel a ton and I would love a weathersealed, compact, light, high quality body.

Two things are keeping me away right now:
- The 9-18 lens isn't weathersealed (this would be my most-used lens)
- While I don't shoot a lot of stuff with shallow DOF, I do enjoy the option of doing it...

Losing TWO STOPS of DOF with the M 4/3 sensor seems like a lot...but maybe I'm wrong...

So please show me the best bokeh/shallow DOF shots you got with your M4/3 setups...please post which body/lens you took it with an the basic settings (mainly, the f-stop).

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Nov 27, 2012 19:38 |  #2

Seriously guys? NOTHING??!! :p


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Nov 27, 2012 22:09 as a reply to  @ LowriderS10's post |  #3

Here are two taken with the Olympus OM-D EM-5. The first one is at 45mm f1.8. The second one is at 20mm f1.7.

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Nov 28, 2012 02:47 |  #4

This is my kind of topic.
All of the were shot on a Pen EPL1 with an adapted 50mm Minolta md lens, f1.4
And I'm willing to bet I shot all of these wide open because I have a serious addiction to bokeh.
I'll try to stay conservative with how many I post.

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This is the first photo I ever took with the lens, testing it right after popping it on.

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Aug 11, 2017 08:18 |  #5

wow. What an unpopular thread... :p

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Aug 12, 2017 03:43 |  #6

This is just with a cheap zoom

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Aug 20, 2017 23:17 |  #7

5 year bump or not, this is a good idea for a thread! I don't shoot wide open all that often, usually just for exposure needs, but I'll throw some photos in.

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NOTE: The sensor is not this noisy. I'm shooting strictly Tri-X pushed to 1600 for film from now on, so I'm trying to keep the look constant. The high ISO performance is pretty good, I just added grain for consistency's sake.

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Sep 01, 2017 00:00 |  #8

Just got the Mitakon 25mm f0.95 (50mm f1.9 FF equivalent) and it's pretty cool! Shot wide open:

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Got the 17mm f1.8 too. Also wide open:

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Sep 02, 2018 14:50 |  #10

I believe the OP is victim of the misutilization of words propogated by the internet!

'Good bokeh vs. bad bokeh', the concept is illustrated in the first illustration here
http://eloisephotograp​hyprojects.blogspot.co​m/2014/10/bokeh-research.html (external link)

but

'Shallow DOF vs. Deep DOF'...is what you get from shorter FL on smaller frame size (e.g. 13mm FL on 13mm tall frame (4/3) vs 24mm FL on 24mm tall frame (135) for same AOV captured on the frame height, with cameras at same position:

  • 13mm FL on 4/3 format at f/2 focused at 10' = 20/20 vision DOF zone depth of 47.6"
  • 24mm FL on 135 format at f/2 focused at 10' = 20/20 vision DOF zone depth of 27.2"


Bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or blurry part of the image.

Even Zeiss agrees in a March 2010 paper published Depth of Field and Bokeh, that
"Bokeh – properties of blurriness ...This image attribute is indeed more of an aesthetic and therefore subjective nature and cannot be described as simply with figures as it is the case with a well focused, sharp image....
The quantity of blurriness
The most important and clearest attribute of blurring is simply the amount of it."

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Sep 02, 2018 18:18 |  #11

As this graph shows, the 4/3 format has about half the blur intensity in the far field, compared to the FF equivalent FOV.

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