This is a very good lens and should be in any self respecting Fuji X-Pro1 or X-E1 owners bag. It feels solid and is very well screwed together. I’ve had rubbish weather to test out this lens and I’m upset I cannot replicate the very bright conditions on Sunday when I first road tested the …
Category Archives: Reviews
Impressions of the E-PL5
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 …
Voigtländer 25mm. The original and the best?
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 …
Sigma 30mm F2.8 – a classic lens for peanuts?
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 …
Appreciation of the Voigtländer 17.5mm F0.95 lens
This is a bit of an odd lens. Fully manual, but for M43s. Max Aperture of F0.95, like a Noctilux, but not really in depth of field given the difference in sensor size. The problem with it is that it is unduly soft wide open. Apparently. It’s never bothered me. In all honesty the results …
Thoughts on the Olympus Body Cap Lens
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 …
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 …
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