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Originally Posted by Alex1994
How about f1.4 lenses? I recently acquired the Zuiko 50mm f1.4 for OM-system, reported to be an excellent lens. Do they give an unusably small DoF when wide open?
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Take a look at
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
a 50mm lens on 35mm film at f/1.4 and a subject distance of 4ft (not an unreasonable assumption for a portrait shot), gives a DoF between 3.92ft. and 4.08ft. As Mike says, it depends what effect you're after. Just bear in mind it gets very very shallow at these apertures and distances which consequently may not give the results you were after.