amipal photography

In a prior post, I mentioned trying to find the perfect lens for flower photography . And how I was going to do some tests with the lenses mentioned within said post. Well, this isn't that test. It's another test. A test with very similar focal-length lenses, and with similar apertures. This is the Battle of the 50mm or Thereabouts Lenses for Photographing Clematis ! What are the contenders in today's test? Well, we have a trio of legacy 50mm lenses from a variety of mounts. And also an auto-focus lens specifically designed for Micro Four Thirds. Jupiter-8 f/2 50mm - m39-mount Helios-44 f/1.8 50mm - m42-mount Voigtlander Color-Ultron f/1.8 50mm - Q-mount Lumix f/1.7 42.5mm - Micro Four Thirds mount All lenses were shot wide-open, and all from the "same" distance from the flower. This distance was calculated based on the closest focusing distance of the lenses with the longest closest focusing distance, the Jupiter-8. Jupiter-8 f/2 50mm Helios-44...

We're almost to the end of the camera club season, so over the last fortnight we've had both the Print of the Year and Projected Image of the Year competitions. You're free to enter up to two image that you'd submitted to previous competitions in the season, both open and set subject. And you're also allowed to change the title, crop, clone and reprint if you want. While I didn't win either, I was very happy with all the photos I submitted for the end of season, so share them with you today. Projected Image of the Year London Neon Picture info: Lumix GH4, Voigtlander f/0.95 17.5mm, ISO800, f/2, 1/2000 sec Street Food Picture info: Lumix GH4, Voigtlander f/0.95 17.5mm, ISO200, f/8, 1/250 sec Print of the Year Lonely Station Picture info: Lumix GH4, Voigtlander f/0.95 17.5mm, ISO200, f/5.6, 1/200 sec Day Approaches Picture info: Lumix GH4, Lumix 12-32mm @ 12mm, ISO200, f/7.1, 1/320 sec Hopefully next season I'll have more success!

I have been a Lumix GH-series man for many years, starting with the original GH1. And yet I've rarely used them for video. So historically, why did I pick the GH cameras over the regular G or GX series? Because they tended to have more horsepower under the bonnet to process the high-definition (and later 4K) video files, larger buffers, and usually the latest sensors - and this made them very snappy cameras for photography. When Panasonic announced a top-of-the-range photography-centric camera based around the GH5, my interest was piqued - looking at the specs and comments coming out, this seemed like the ideal camera for me. And so a couple of months back, I received my annual bonus at work, and mere hours later I was the proud owner of a brand new Lumix G9 (the advantage/disadvantage of having Park Cameras half an hour drive away). First things first - it is larger than the GH4. And I don't mean slightly larger, I mean substantially larger. The GH4 look and size were...