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RE: Does anyone know if you can you produce shallow depth of field with a micro four thirds camera?

Posted by Pam1 on August 2, 2009 at 00:33:10:
Micro or regular 4/3 produce the same dof and 2x crop factor. The Oly 50mm f/2 macro makes really nice portraits and shallow dof shots when not taking pics of bugs etc. and has a decent bokeh too. When I shot 35mm film with a 50mm f/1.4 I always used to have problems with too shallow dof... like portraits with one eye in focus while the nose and other eye were fuzzy, but then insanely low f-stops were the only way to get decent shutter speeds with Kodachrome 25 etc. Dslr's do a pretty decent job up to about ISO 400 or even 800+ for ordinary prints so there isn't as much need for such low f-stops anymore. Still, you're going to need a lens that goes down to f/2 or 2.8. Those cheap f/5.6 zooms aren't going to do the trick on any dslr.

Play with putting various lenses in a dof calculator and you should get some idea of what you can do http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html