Following up on yesterdays post, look at the above image and compare it to yesterdays image. The difference in depth of field is quite apparent. Now, imaine if you had a lens with a maximum aperture of f2.8, that is again 2 stops brighter than f5.6. Imagine how that mosque would look at that aperture. That is what a lot of people are waiting for from the 4/3 manufacturers. Fast wide to standard zooms with an aperture of f2.8. I wonder how the Panasonic zooms will handle. Things are getting interesting for this format sensor at last.

Spring is here at last! The older I get the longer the winters seem to get. When spring pokes it's head around the corner is the time I start to plan my outings in earnest. Every weekend is planned and booked for weeks ahead and everything else get put on hold. It was quite windy as we took an afternoon outing to a special place of ours and the blossoms were actually starting to fade. As a steady breeze blew the petals were being blown off at an alarming rate. Looks just like it was snowing. Very pretty and is the kind of image that I can photograph over and over again.

I like to frame an image within another frame. These images are not easy to find and think yourself lucky to just see one right in front of you. I normally have to look for these and I don't find them very often. I was out the other day with the fantastic Olympus mZD ED 12 f2 prime lens. Just got it and haven't used it much yet so I thought I'd give it a little outing. This is a park we go to quite often as it is quite large and I can spend hours just roaming around. It's a photographers paradise in a way. Plenty of scope for different types of images. I had stopped to change lenses and after packing the old lens away I turned around and found this. I was delighted. This is the sort of image I really like. A frame within a frame within a frame. I just wish I could find more of them.

I 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.

This was taken at a short distance, about 2 meters. You may not be able to see the detail at this resolution, but believe me, at full size these blossoms are very detailed and sharp. An excellent lens for this sort of photography. The colours from the Nex-7 sensor I find very pleasing here as well.