Simple Clicks – Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4
This isn’t a review – I’ll one of those at some point in the near(ish) future. What this is is a quick sample of photos and a few preliminary thoughts on this lens, which arrived a week ago. It’s a hard lens to get, as all the major retailers keep running out of stock. I’m [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: Astrophotography
This wasn’t one of the planned reviews, but after spending several hours shooting the night sky on Friday, I knew that I had to change the plan a little and say something about the E-M5’s capabilities in this arena. I realize that astrophotography is a pretty niche application and I don’t know how many of [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: Wildlife
While portrait and commercial shooting is my professional niche, wildlife photography is my personal addiction. The challenge of finding critters, of learning their habits and behaviors, and then pulling it all together to make portraits of them in their wild environments is a rush. On a good day, at least. (On a bad day, when [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: Studio Work (static)
Although the majority of my personal work takes place outdoors, my professional ventures are split about 70/30, with the smaller portion taking place in an indoor studio setting, be it with models, products, stock, etc. Although I’m really dying to get a model in front of the E-M5, I’m taking this one step at a [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: General Shooting
This is probably the toughest of the reviews to write, just because I want to cover a number of different points. You can probably think of this one as a catch-all, the place for anything that doesn’t exactly fit with the other, more specific posts that are coming (I’ve been writing them out of sequence). [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: General Overview
I’m going to kick off my reviews of the Olympus OM-D E-M5 with a general overview of the system. This is probably the least exciting part of the review from a photo-standpoint, but I think that it contains a lot of useful information, especially for folks who are still waiting for – or have just [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: Introduction
Since I know that many people are still anxiously awaiting a shipping notification for their own OM-Ds, I’m going to forgo my usual policy of delaying gear reviews until after I’ve used the equipment for several weeks, and share whatever I can with you in hopes that, when you do receive your shipments, you’ll know [...]
Lens Rentals
This past trip was my first foray into the world of lens rentals. Up until this point, I’d never really considered it, although I’m not sure why. I guess in part because I’ve always felt that, if I had a real need for a lens, I’d be better off just buying it and adding it [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5: First thoughts
The photo gods were obviously smiling on me this week, as I seem to have landed one of the first Olympus OM-Ds shipped from B&H. It arrived on Wednesday evening and I’ve used just about every free moment since then to start working with it. I’ll have more detailed posts over the next couple of [...]
How I (really) use my camera
Over the past week, a number of different ideas, sources, and comments have been rattling around my brain before finally coalescing into a single, hopefully coherent thought. This is a little long-winded, so bear with me. I’ve been thinking about how I use my camera. How I really use it, the features and settings that [...]
