So there is a lot of discussion about the conversion of apertures and depth of field between smaller sensors and full frame sensors. The main thing that I remember is that the depth of field doesn’t change during the conversion. What do I mean by that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if you have a 150mm lens on the MFT camera at F\/2.8 that is the same as a 300mm at F\/5.6 on full frame. For both these lenses, for a given focus distance the depth of field is the same. So if you are interested in trying to get a blurred or sharp background then remember that your aperture has doubled with the focal length. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That does make things difficult to get a really blurred background. With a full frame F\/1.8 at say 85mm you can get a nice blurred background. To get the same depth of field (blurring) on MFT you would need a something around 42mm at well F\/0.7. That’s not going to happen with most lenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are two options on the market that come pretty close! There is the Panasonic 42.5mm F\/1.2 ASPH Lieca DG Nocticron OIS<\/a> lens, which in the UK is currently about \u00a31150. Or there is the Voigtlander 42.5mm F\/0.95 Nokton<\/a>, which is \u00a3850. It should not be a surprise to you that these lenses exist for the exact reasons stated above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kit-posts","category-technology","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleaseleavequietly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}