Finally got this lens. $900USD from ebay. Made in Japan. Been wanting this lens for the past 1.5 years but couldn’t justify the price. Well I wasn’t really that much into “bokeh” and fixed primes, not until lately I started to care more about image qualities. Does every photographer eventually ditches their zooms and opt for the primes? I still love my zoom lenses but maybe one day, I’ll be doing all primes, who knows.

Anyway the lens is heavy - weights about the same as my 12-60mm zoom, kind of crazy. I took it out for some sample shots, so far so good, except that the auto-focus is kind of slow and sometimes it’s not quite accurate. There could be a learning curve for this lens, afterall it’s no fun being able to utilize its best right up front. The bokeh is amazing! In fact the aperture is a little “too big” during the day, when it’s really bright doing f/1.4 requires a shutter speed of > 1/8000 sec! This lens’s opened up a brand new world to me and I can just imagine the variety of pics that I can take using it.

• New camera (again)
• Zuiko 50-200mm F/2.8-3.5 SWD Zoom Lens
• Dream lenses
• Reverse macro
• Hoya Close-Up Filters…piece of sxxt
• Skagit County “Tulip Festival”

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