05/11/12

Spring is here!

Spring is here at last! The older I get the longer the winters seem to get. When spring pokes it's head around the corner is the time I start to plan my outings in earnest. Every weekend is planned and booked for weeks ahead and everything else get put on hold. It was quite windy as we took an afternoon outing to a special place of ours and the blossoms were actually starting to fade. As a steady breeze blew the petals were being blown off at an alarming rate. Looks just like it was snowing. Very pretty and is the kind of image that I can photograph over and over again.

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E-P3
Focal Length: 67 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO: 200

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• spring • Olympus • E-P3 • mZD 14-150

05/10/12

Lenses

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mZD ED 14-150 f4.0-5.6

This is one lens I keep coming back to. It makes for a great holiday lens if you don't fancy changing lenses or just want to take one lens with you for convenience. There may be better lenses out there but I just like using this one. Results are good and adequate for my needs. It is also lighter than the Panasonic 14-140 which was designed for the videographer in mind. I use the 14-140 on a Panasonic G1 and the results are impressive. I do believe there is a quality assurance problem somewhere within Panasonic because not all people who bought one got a good copy. Luckily my copy is pretty sharp.

The 14-150 is not a fast lens by any means and the image quality at 150mm and f5.6 is not top notch. Stop down to f8 however and the image quality increses dramatically. Very acceptable. F8 seems to be the optimum aperture for the lens and sensor, because stopping down to f11 sees a dramatic image degradation, so mine stays at f8 most of the time at 150mm. Background separation is possible with all lenses, it just depends how far away the background is from what you want to photograph. It's a lot easier with fast lenses of course as DOF is quite small. This image was shot at f8 and the cloud in the background was miles away so the bokeh is quite good.

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E-P3
Focal Length: 150 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO: 200

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• Olympus • E-P3 • mZD 14-150 • spring.holiday lens • versatile

03/24/11

General

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Spring at Last

At last! Seems I've been waiting for months for spring to arrive. Well, in Spain anyway. This bee was busy last week, all his interest was geared for the flowers now open. Once back home, I realised how much sooner spring arrived in Spain. Had a bit of a shock as I stepped off the aeroplane. Anyway, won't be long now.

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E-PL1
Focal Length: 150 mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO: 200

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