I had ordered the slightly silly F8 body cap lens from Olympus a while back and not paid it much attention until it arrived yesterday. It’s so small it makes the E-M5 look outsized (that statement is so ridiculous I’ll leave that there for a while)… It’s a manual focus lens and doesn’t communicate with …
Monthly Archives: October 2012
E-M5 and Panasonic 35-100mm – Final Thoughts
Having given the lens a good write up but its combination with the E-M5 less of a blessing, I decided to renew my acquaintance with the lens plus E-M5 in some half decent light. To the handling. It still isn’t great, but you may be fine. Looking at the way I hold the E-M5, the …
Panasonic G5, 12-35mm and 35-100mm in Whitecross Street Market (plus Royal Exchange and Trent Park)
This started out as a post which was designed to re-run my comparisons with the 35-100mm and the E-M5 with the G5. First impressions with the E-M5: http://wp.me/p2wMAg-g9 Further images with the E-M5: http://wp.me/p2wMAg-ge I thought I could do that quickly over the weekend via a trip to the park. Of course the weather and life intervened, …
Panasonic 35-100mm – further samples
These are just a few more shots from my walk around yesterday. Nothing further to add other than I really do like the colour you get out of this lens.
Panasonic 35-100mm first impressions
I nearly managed to name this 35-100m first impressions which makes it sound like I was reviewing a swimming pool… In any event this turned up just before I went to work this morning so I thought I would take it for a spin. Overall I was impressed, but I think for some people they …
Autumn at St Pauls
This lunchtime I wandered down to St Pauls with my X-Pro1. Perhaps it is because it has otherwise been so unrelelenting bad weather wise, but the colours of autumn have really cheered me up this year. I feel like I am stalking the city police horses! Honestly, they just seem to be around whenever I …
Velvia Colours of Autumn
A few shots (needless to say, in velvia film simulation) of the fantastic leaf colours on the walk to the station today. Taken with my X-Pro1 and 35mm lens
Meeting my parents for a family lunch
Today we went to Playhatch, near Reading, to meet up with my parents. They live in Wales about 3 hours drive away so, given our use of Skype, I’m pretty convinced that our son Daniel thinks my parents are characters in a computer game… In any event it was lovely to catch up. As ever …
A couple of classic cars (and the end of a week) with the NEX-7
I had intended to take the NEX-7 to somewhere spectacular at lunchtime, to finish my rediscovery of it, but it has bucketed down with rain all day in London today. As close as I could get was the two classic cars parked over the road from my office (which were advertising a classic car rental …
Nex-7 and Firmware 1.01 – an end to UWA magenta cast?
Some of you may have seen my other blog post about the NEX-7 this week in which I finished by saying that I found too many niggles with it to want to use it. In particular I found the problems with WA lenses (magenta cast and soft/smeared corners) and the video button incredibly irritating. I …
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