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05/29/12  Leica DG Summilux 25 f1.4What a stunner this lens is. A must for m4/3 users. The hood ia a real pain to stow away but apart from that what's not to like about this lens. Acting as a 50mm lens in 35mm format it has proved to be a favourite of many m4/3 users. It's not cheap but in this case you really get what you paid for.
This image was taken at f5.6 and is sharp from corner to corner. Hmm...is this going to replace my manual focus lenses? 1918
E-P3 Focal Length: 25 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/200 sec ISO: 200 05/23/12  Olympus mZD 14-150This image shows again what is possible with the m4/3 system as regards to background separation.
The background here is a bit busy but not too distracting. The flower is in focus and is sharp at 150.
The colours look good and are accurate. 1353
E-P3 Focal Length: 150 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 200 05/22/12  Olympus mZD 14-150I keep coming back to this lens because I think it's one of the best travel lenses out there. You could, of course, select the 14-42 and the 40-150 lenses but that means a lens change which would mean I would do it often. I could have 2 cameras but that again means changing cameras. The 14-150 eliminates this hassle and is perfect...for me! 1347
E-P3 Focal Length: 25 mm Aperture: f/11.0 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 200 • Olympus • mZD 14-150 • travel
05/19/12  Background SeparationI hear quite often that background separation (or bokeh) is terrible with the micro four thirds cameras. I think this image, using the mZD 14-150 on the E-P3 shows quite clearly that it is not terrible. Personally I think it's great. The separation between the subject and background has to be large enough. This was taken at f5.6. 1923
E-P3 Focal Length: 150 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/500 sec ISO: 200 05/18/12  Olympus E-P3 fitted with the mZD 14-150 LensFocusing with the E-P3 is pretty fast, even with the older lenses. I find that focusing with the 12 f2 or the 45 f1.8 is really fast, nearly instantaneous. That makes it fun to use. Even with the 14-150 focusing is ok, but it's not made for sports photography. Actually the whole system isn't designed for that. If you want to do sports photography you really are better off with a DSLR. 1850
E-P3 Focal Length: 14 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/400 sec ISO: 200 • Olympus • E-P3 • mZD 14-150
05/16/12  Frames III think I've taken more pictures with this lens than with all the others combined. I just think it's a great travel lens. I always take it along on my outings, even if I don't think I'm going to use it. You never know. 1986
E-P3 Focal Length: 22 mm Aperture: f/11.0 Exposure Time: 1/160 sec ISO: 200 • E-P3 • mZD 14-150
05/15/12  Frames II was talking earlier about frames within the image. The following post is about such an image and you should always be on the lookout for such images. When you have found such an opportunity, take your time in framing and double-check everything before taking a picture. You'll thank yourself when you look at the image on a monitor.
This one was taken on the Olypus E-P3 and the new fantastic 12 f2 lens. Without this wide angle I couldn't have framed this the way I did. 3013
E-P3 Focal Length: 12 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/100 sec ISO: 200 05/12/12  Background SeparationThis background separation concept is quite important and plays a big part in getting the image to, what some people might call, pop. It gives 3D impression and really improved the image. On this occation I was using the mZD 14-150 (yet again) and it is not easy to achieve this effect with this lens. The background was several meters behind my subject and this is one of those times that you require the lens to be fully open. Well, if you remember me saying a post or two ago the mZD 14-150 is not really sharp at 150mm and f5.6. Well, I had no choice in the matter and this shot was taken at 150 and f5.6. Notice that the background is little too busy for my taste and an aperture of f2.8 or f4 would have been wonderful here. Unfortunately, there are no f2.8 zooms for the m4/3 system as yet, however, Panasonic have announced a couple of zooms and should be available quite soon.
I think it turned out ok though. 1712
E-P3 Focal Length: 150 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/640 sec ISO: 200 • background separation • bokeh • pop.
05/10/12  mZD ED 14-150 f4.0-5.6This 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. 2081
E-P3 Focal Length: 150 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/640 sec ISO: 200 • Olympus • E-P3 • mZD 14-150 • spring.holiday lens • versatile
05/08/12  Voigtlaender 50 f1.5 Adapted for Sony Nex-7I find this to be a pleasing image. It's a well known fact that the Nex-7 sensor produces a purple cast with shorter RF lenses, and not only at the edges but throughout the image. This photograph exhibited this colour cast which shouldn't really appear the this focal lenngth. I had to correct this in post processing. Not much work for one image but if you have a couple dozen to do, it gets a little tedious. Of course there's Cornerfix for this but you have to save the file as a DNG before opening in Cornerfix. As long as it's not normal (and on this outing I only hads one image that exhibited this sort of behaviour) I'll stick to Photoshop. 1537
NEX-7 Focal Length: unknown Aperture: f/1.0 Exposure Time: 1/1600 sec ISO: 100 • Voigtlaender • Sony • 50 f1.5 • manual focus • Nex-7
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