This isn't exactly inspiring photography but this is a series of test photos taken with a brand new lens. If you check out my recent post in the
What You Buy or DYI show off thread you will see a description of this lens which I purchased only yesterday. I won't repeat the whole description here other than to say this is my first truly premium micro four third lens and I'm delighted with this test series.
Here is the way I will demonstrate the lens...
I will post four primary photographs. Each primary photo will be accompanied by a second image which will be a "100% crop" of a portion of that primary photo. For those of you not familiar with the "100 crop" concept, here is the reason this is done: As you know, modern digital cameras take huge images which are way too large to post at full size in this forum (being several thousand pixels wide). We downsize photos for posting in forums. However, this downsizing results in another problem because a downsized photo does not show true image quality. For this reason, we use the 100% crop. First, the downsized photo is posted...but a tiny section of that photo is cropped and posted at full 100% resolution. This "100 % crop" is a better indicator of image quality.
So here it goes:
Now the cropped portion of that image at full resolution:
