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Originally Posted by Judd

the one I put in the last post was taken with the E-1 (not exactly an easy camera to check focus with), plus it was meant to be a softer focus image (at mothers request!). Here is another, again shot at f2, with a sharp, appropriate point of focus:

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...raits/pic9.jpg

And this one taken with my new 40D and 60mm f2.8, at f2.8:

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...aits/laura.jpg

Very nice Judd, you got it right with those two. I've never used a 4:3rds camera but I understand they have an even smaller viewfinder than the 1.5x crop sensor dSLRs, so I can fully appreciate that seeing the precise point of focus isn't as easy.

As for your comment on soft focus, it is important to note that soft focus is not the same as out of focus or incorrect DoF, they are very different properties indeed. Soft focus was traditionally achieved by tricks like smearing a bit of vaseline on the front of a skylight filter on the lens, Pentax used to produce a specially engineered soft focus lens for portrait work, these days it can all be done in post-processing.

Duncan