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Fujifilm XF 18-55mm – first use

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WOW. They don’t make zooms this sharp do they? The results are beautiful. If they are Fujifilm, yes they do. This seems to be a stunning zoom. To think it is the kit for the XE1 leaves me scratching my head in wonder. This lens is about as far from a “kit” zoom as you …

British Museum with my E-PL5

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Now I am a bit more used to my E-PL5, I appreciate more of its finer points rather than its deficiencies. No one looks at it (I have a black model). I’ve never really believed the colour of lenses makes much of a difference to whether people notice you and your camera, but I do …

Impressions of the E-PL5

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I bought an E-PL5 on a spur of the moment thing. I had sold my E-P3 a couple of weeks back, I missed it and I found a decent price body only on the E-PL5 and thought “what the hell”. Unfortunately, my first impressions were poor. The screen seemed tiny in comparision to either the …

Covent Garden

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Today I took my E-PL5 to Covent Garden together with my 12, 25 and 75mm lenses. Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin’s Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular …

King’s Cross St Pancras

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I have been spending a lot of time more recently posting reviews of lenses. While that generates a lot of hits, it isn’t as much fun as getting out to new places (or old places) with a camera. A week or two back my train was diverted to King’s Cross Station in the morning due …

Voigtländer 25mm. The original and the best?

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Wow, In between a hard week at work and fighting with a numpty about his attempts to (at best) spread FUD about me on the net, I managed to nip out to give my newly arrived Voigtlander 25mm a road test. High level, it isn’t as impressive a lens as the 17.5mm. You might almost …

Just a minute… and the power of negative thinking

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With apologies for not updating the site for the last few days, I’ve been having some fun and games with a goon who has decided to post what I consider to be potentially defamatory comments about an eBay purchase he made from me. I’m a little disappointed because he chose to leave negative feedback and …

Sigma 30mm F2.8 – a classic lens for peanuts?

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Some NEX-7 pictures today… At the weekend a new lens for my NEX-7 arrived, the Sigma 30mm f/2.8 EX DN Lens. I picked this up cheap through an offer on Amazon. I was in two minds about this lens. Surely something not far north of £120  new couldn’t be any good. All I would say is …

Thoughts on the Olympus Body Cap Lens

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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 …