TOP reviews the Olympus E-P5
Notes on The Online Photographer’s review of the Olympus E-P5.
Through New (Old) Lenses
These are my new glasses. When I first put them on everything looked weird, even though my prescription hadn’t changed. It took a few days of forcing myself to wear them before my brain caught up with my eyes and everything felt normal again. That experience got me thinking about how we see with cameras […]
City Hall and the El
Two more Pinwide shots from the end of yesterday:
Wanderlust Pinwide On the Street
Stopped just south of City Hall to experiment with the Pinwide outdoors in bright sunlight. This first one was probably the best of the bunch, with the ghost of a woman crossing in the middle of the street layered on top of another woman standing on the concrete island in the background: 5 seconds, ISO […]
Springtime in Vienna
Selective focus on micro-4/3rds can be hard to achieve, but the 45mm/f1.8 makes things easier Spring is for photography—everything’s blooming and colors come back full-force. Took the camera out into my in-laws’ backyard. Lately I’ve decided to hunker down and learn the ins-and-outs of this E-P2 that I got just before Sophie was born. I’ve […]
Luminous Landscape on the Fuji X-Pro 1
The report sounds very much like reviews of the X100: beautiful camera and files balanced by some quirks and middling performance. The photos made by that 35/f1.4 look very, very nice. Part 1 Part 2
Pentax Q
You have to hand it to Pentax: they always seem to be thinking on a different wavelength, finding niches in the camera marketplace instead of following the lead of Canon and Nikon. This new Q system looks like a really interesting camera—small as a point-and-shoot, but with interchangeable lenses. The Online Photographer has a good […]
Fuji X100
Officially announced today. $1200 dollars, incidentally, is what I paid six years ago for a Bessa R2A and a Zeiss 35/2.0 lens.