Life with the X100 series: thinking on the X100F.

These are great, but flawed cameras. Great because of a lens that strikes all the right compromises (don’t ever change it Fujifilm), OVF and fantastic built in fill flash. Flawed because it’s a fixed lens camera (35mm equivalent) which isn’t as quick to focus as some of the most recent X series lenses. It’s worth …

Animal Magic

A visit to London Zoo last week offered some time for a great day out with my oldest son. Being of the view that always carrying a 150-600mm lens and a DSLR can get a bit intrusive, I took my Olympus E-M1 mkII with me. This camera rightly wins plaudits for its high speed shooting …

Nifty 25: Olympus 25mm F1.2 Pro

I bought this lens because I had never been entirely satisfied with the results from other M43s lenses at 25mm and because of a general love for the results from a fast 50mm. Olympus released a number of products in the last few months and the 25mm ƒ/1.2 Pro M.Zuiko Digital (hereafter, the 25mm f1.2) …

Shoreditch Street Art with my X-Pro1 and Xf27mm

So it has been a funny old week in my new office, not a million miles away from Liverpool Street. We’ve had a dead mouse in a desk, builders playing a girder and spanner symphony across the road and a seemingly endless walk to the kitchen. It is however a considerable improvement on a building …