The Olympus 25mm f1.8: I have found my focal length sweet spot...

Subtitle: If loving a lens is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Note: Not a review. Just some musings and some sample photos.

Olympus M. Zuiko 25mm f1.8

Everything I love about the 45mm f1.8 and loved about the 17mm f1.8 in a wonderful focal length. With the 17mm I found myself foot zooming forward at times and with the 45mm I find myself occasionally foot zooming back (into a wall now and again), but as advertised by many the m43 25mm ("Nifty fifty" 50mm equivalent on 35mm) is optical wysiwyg. I heard good things about the Panasonic 25mm f1.4, but the Zuiko f1.8 hits the right price/size balance for me. Both focal length and lens choices are entirely subjective and your personal preference may vary.

Camera touch focus, and fast AF teamed with the lens' relatively close focus distance, sharp details and f1.8 make DOF tests like the one below a simple affair. All three photos taken back to back within moments using touch focus. JPEG straight out of camera with no edits other than adding watermark. Click images to view them full size.:

pen touch focus

glass touch focus

lamp touch focus

What more is there to say about Olympus' range of fast primes that has not already been said? Abridged version: Fast, silent, sharp, excellent CA control, etc... I will babble no longer. Here are some photos from my first day with the lens:

-ELW

Gallery: Random Recent Shots (01/05/2014)

Random Recent Shots (01/05/2014), a set on Flickr.

A sunset scene

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Greatness In You

There is greatness in you put in place by God, glimpsed, hinted at and alluded to by others, that can only come to full fruition, maturation, and realization when you fully expose, acknowledge, utilize, and embrace these gifts yourself, and once unlocked we all will be blessed.

Dr. Henry Panion III: Freedom of the Soul: The Negro Spiritual

(picture from http://homepage.mac.com/hpanion/henrypanion/index.html) 

Here is a link after the jump below to a story/interview I enjoyed featuring Dr. Henry Panion III from CBS 42 Birmingham, AL discussing the tradition of The Negro Spiritual and his work creating Classical arrangements of the same To quote Dr. Panion, "Please enjoy this recent interview I gave to Sherri Jackson of CBS 42 on the historical and cultural significance of the negro spiritual."

Stopped on the way home to take a picture.

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Body and Soul The Book

Here is a great book that blessed me by two mighty men of God. Rev. Dr. W. Darin Moore is a highly gifted and renowned teacher and preacher of the Word and the Pastor of the wonderful Greater Centennial AME Zion Church in Mt. Vernon, NY (my church home for 9 years) who I am blessed to count as a friend and as my father in ministry. Dr. Merville Marshall is an acclaimed educator, Endocrinologist (founder of the Endocrine Institute in White Plains, NY) who was featured on Discovery Health's Mystery Diagnosis and The Montell Williams Show who I am also blessed to count as a friend. The picture above links to the book's website and below is text from the same site.