Hi everyone,
Finally manged to get out for a few hours this morning. Felpham beach, West Sussex. My first experiment with long exposure HDR. Not sure if I’m happy with it but it’s a start and it was magic to get out. 🙂
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50972990951/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
Just for the heck of it.:) Bored, overweight and desperately in need of a haircut after this long lockdown.
.Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi everyone,
If you haven’t seen my previous post then the title will not make any sense at all. 🙂 . I’ve found a better solution for attaching one of my 58mm variable ND filters to my Lumix 12-32mm lens without vignetting. I attached a 37-58mm step up ring onto which the 58mm filter fits and then my 62mm metal wide-angle lens hood fits on the end of the filter. Simply unscrew my normal hood and screw on this arrangement instead, very quick and easy. 🙂 . The hood takes an 86mm lens cap and I can still leave on the 37mm protection filter on the lens if I choose so less fiddling about. Another advantage is that I can rotate the hood to rotate the filter which make adjustment quicker and easier.
I hope that I’m not boring too many of you with these kind of posts but, as we’re still in lockdown and I cannot get out I don’t have many new pictures to work with. I like passing on my finds as someone out there might find them of interest. After nearly four and a half months virtually confined to home, I’m chewing the carpet in desperation to get out, anywhere, preferably scenic, will do!. 🙂
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
Shot from Pagham beach.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50959988497/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
All t he best, Leigh
Hi everyone,
Another Bognor beach HDR landscape.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50955211478/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
Another of my Bognor Regis beach shots. PEN-F and Lumix 12-32mm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50952834543/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards, stay safe everyone.
Leigh
Hi everyone,
I’m not on this occasion referring to the love of my life although of course that’s perennially true 🙂 . Some time back I bought a tiny 20 MP Nikon Coolpix A100 camera as a backup camera that I could use on holiday and for the evenings when I just wanted to wander around, chill with a nice meal and a beer (or two) 🙂 without being in any way weighed down with gear. It really is a shirt pocket fitting camera. Independently I bought an equally tiny Joby Micro Tripod For Compact Video Cameras https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005HY4TXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 intending to use it on one of my other cameras. As it turned out I’ve never used it much but it’s a great match for the A100. As this camera is very light and it has a tripod bush on the very end of the camera it more than supports the weight and, importantly, it allows access to the camera’s battery and card compartment which is located on the bottom plate at the opposite end to the tripod bush and thus it can be left fitted at all times. The micro tripod has a ball head allowing positioning and for style gurus (not me) 🙂 cosmetically it’s a good match. Apologies for the poor picture quality, these were taken in poor light with my G10 but they serve the purpose.
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi evryone,
Bognor Regis beach.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50950772297/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi everyone,
Two new works today,
“Industrial Strength”. Tram Museum, Porto.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50950546977/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
“Ancient and Modern”. Shot on the Spanish Steps in Rome.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/50950543532/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Best wishes,
Leigh
Hi folks,
As I strongly suspected my first comparison wasn’t accurate. I’ve used both of these lenses quite a bit and I’ve never noticed that degree of softness. I repeated it with the same conditions, ISO 200 @ f/5.6, tripod mounted, cable release etc..
Lumix 12-32mm @ 17mm full-frame image.
M.Zuiko 17mm full-frame image
Lumix 12-32mm @ 17mm 100% center crop.
M.Zuiko 17mm 100% center crop
Lumix 12-32mm @17mm 100% corner crop
M.Zuiko 17mm 100% corner crop
Overall there’s very little in it but I feel like the Lumix 12-32mm is a tad sharper in the center. whereas the M.Zuiko 17mm is marginally sharper in the corners. Sorry about the moire pattern, I could have corrected it but not for these purposes. I reiterate this is a real world comparison and not a laboratory one and the differences are, at the worst, marginal. I am more than happy with both of these lenses but it does again demonstrate how good this little zoom lens is. I think that I might do the same comparisons between the 12-32mm and my M.Zuiko 12-40mm lens. Of course the primes are faster and the 12-40mm is both faster and weather-sealed but optically I don’t think there much in it, from the comparisons I’ve done to date in a real-world day-to-day usage perspective (pun intended) 🙂 . I’m in no way disappointed with any of my various prime lenses, the build quality is better and they’re faster but I think that the optical difference between them and the 12-32mm is nowhere near that of what one could easily be led to believe and, at certain focal lengths, the 12-32mm is, if anything, a tad better in terms of sharpness.
Kind regards,
Leigh
