On Friday night last week I headed for the O2 arena in North Greenwich. For once I wasn’t there to ride the cable car! Fleetwood Mac were playing a show at the O2 and a firm my company does business with offered to take me and some others on hospitality. I’m going to confess now …
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GH3 and my new black Oly 75mm
So I’m officially a fashion victim. I decided that a GH3 with silver lenses mounted just looked odd. In particular I’ve been lusting after the Olympus 75mm lens in black rather than silver. It’s always stuck me as a lens that would be great for stills and video. I found the black version for a …
British Museum with my E-PL5
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
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
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
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 …
St Matthew’s Day at the Guildhall
This lunchtime I walked down to the London Guildhall to eat my lunch. When I arrived I could see some kind of event was in progress. Judging by the Rolls Royce limousines parked in the corner, the Lord Mayor was talking part. It turned out the event happening was the end of the annual St …
The people of St Pauls
Having failed to bring my G5 with me today for some testing with the 7-14 (battery, what battery??) I did at least have my E-M5 with me. I wanted a walk at lunchtime for a bit of exercise and so I decided to head down to St Paul’s cathedral. I couldn’t really be bothered to …
Trafalgar Square
First of two posts this evening. First of all, yesterday I visited Trafalgar Square in central London. The evening before I had been telling some poor guy he needed to visit the square with a UWA lens, so I decided to take my new 9-18 down there. I was very happy with the output from …
Olympics Parade
Olympics Parade, a set on Flickr. Slideshow available through the “Olympics Parade” link under the block of pictures above. The official parade of British medallists and other competitors took place today in London, commencing near Bank, not far from where I work. I ventured down armed with my E-M5. Unfortunately I had forgotten the parade …
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