Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Desperado

Mr Puss E. Cat of Enmore sprints up to me, meowing for a pat...





What a floozy...

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  2. I've been thinking of dangling something off the camera, but maybe that's getting TOO pathetic...

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  4. Ah - this is with my new little Olympus XZ-1, a wee pocket point and shoot. I can get a shallow depth of field and more detail with the E-P1 and Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens (though you are right, a bigger sensor will always win out) but I'm enjoying the extra challenge of the point and shoot right now. There a new leica\panasonic f1.4 25mm micro four thirds lens coming soon, so help my credit card...

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  6. It's because these photos were done with the little xz-1 point and shoot compact camera, it has a nice 1.8 lens but only a tiny sensor, it's like a Canon s95.

    If you click on the tags for cats and dogs you will see some older pics from the e-p1 with the panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens. Also my food blog www.streetfood.com.au is all done with the ep-1/1.7 combo (except the last couple of posts).

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  9. I'm facing the same decision so I'll be interested to see what you get.

    From what I can figure out - micro four thirds can keep up with consumer aps-c dslrs until the sun drops, modern dslrs having amazing high iso capabilities, and much better dynamic range. A full frame camera like your mate's d700 is in another league altogether though - the photos that really 'wow' me quality wise are always full frames... I reckon it all comes down to what you are happy to lug around and enjoy using...

    I can't really comment on the quality of the kit lenses having mainly used the primes, but the twin lens kit looks like a great deal. I had the 14-150mm for a little while and was stunned at some of the photos that popped out, particularly close up and zoomed out, I would guess the 40-150mm will do the same.

    I had the 17mm 2.8 but traded up for the Panasonic 1.7 as it focussed much easier under low light - a lot of the food photos are done in really challenging light...

    I've seen some stunning portraits from that nokton lens, they almost looked like they came from a full frame camera, if only i could manually focus...

    Having said all that, I'd get a Pentax K-5 if I could afford it...

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  12. Yay - I love the silver too - where did you find that sweet deal?

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  15. I guess if you're prepared to manual focus every shot then go voigtlander - sounds like a pain in the buttocks to me :-)

    Thing I like about the 20mm 1.7 is that it is nice and small, can fit it a jacket pocket with the ep-1 if required and packs in a bag nicely.

    I paid nearly $600 for my 20mm 1.7, had to import it from Japan, $400 is sweet, availability seems to go up and down.

    I'll give you a $100 for your ep3 body no worries ;-)

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  16. Oh - another consideration is that the autofocus is quite slow on the the 20mm 1.7 - may be less of an issue on the e-p3 - photographing pussycats with the e-p1 and 20mm is very difficult. I believe the 25mm is much faster.

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  20. That looks like $30 well spent, might look into it.

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  22. "The Russian wide angle I bought which is also as small has a depth of field of 1.6meters to infinity at around F8.0 so you don't even have to focus it." - I like the sound of that!

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