Hi everyone,
Finally got a nice cold but sunny morning to try out my 0.5 black mist filter and 23mm lens with it’s nice 8-pointed sun star and flare @f/8.
“Contre-jour”
“Fishing boat and the pier”
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi everyone,
Needed a hot coffee in there before venturing out towards the sea. 🙂 Amazing what this £83 lens is capable of producing.
Best wishes,
Leigh
Hiya,
River Arun at Littlehampton.
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi,
Another work from this morning’s outing.
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi everyone,
Another new work of Littlehampton, West Sussex, UK.
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi everyone,
I took my new TTArtisan 23mm f1.4 lens for a walk in Litttlehampton earlier. Man I’m loving this lens!, probably the best £83 I’ve spent in some time. A bit of sharpening and minor edits to taste.
All the best,
Leigh
Hi everyone,
I took my new TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4 lens for a test drive this morning in Chichester. All shots taken on my Olympus PEN-F camera at f/5.6 plus Kenko 1.0 black mist filter, with minimal processing for sharpness, noise reduction where appropriate, correction for converging verticals and processed with a Fuji Astia+ film emulation LUT. Not bad for an £83 lens. 🙂 I could improve more with additional processing but I wanted to keep things as basic and simple as possible for the purpose of testing. As I thought it might be this lens is a lot of fun to shoot with. Zone focus at about 7m at f/5.6 and everything is acceptably sharp from approx. 3m to infinity. The lens is a bit soft even at f/5.6 more so with the filter fitted but nothing that cannot easily be corrected in post. I only wanted the filter on for the interior shots taken inside the Cathedral.
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi,
The lens comes with a slightly odd 43mm filter thread so I wanted to adapt it to fit my preferred filter size of 58mm. I fitted a 43-58mm step up ring and found a very nice 58mm matching black and silver lens hood on Amazon which matches the lens’ styling perfectly: Fotover Unique 58mm Metal Screw In Standard Lens Hood. You can see it fitted along with a 58mm filter in my previous post. I particularly wanted to fit a hood as I believe that it can be somewhat overly prone to lens flare which is great when one wants it, not so great when one doesn’t. 🙂
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi everyone,
I just took delivery of a new handcrafted leather camera strap for my PEN-F camera made by a UK company called Bowman Leather: https://www.bowmanleather.co.uk/ . They do quite a range of straps and I’m very impressed with the quality of materials and workmanship, the attractive “organic” cloth, and not plastic, drawstring bag inner packaging and the very fast 24 hours tracked dispatch at a very fair price. Great to see a UK company producing quality items like this. I chose their Stride – Thin Leather Camera Strap in Mid Tan colour which I think looks great on my PEN-F camera and they have several other colours available. I’m delighted to see that they use traditional manufacturing methods and sustainable materials and they offer a 10% discount for new customers as well as a plant a tree policy. This strap is comfortable, pretty supple and should last me a long time, they have a 10 year warranty policy so they must be confident about the quality of their products.
In these days when just about everything seems to come from China I’m more than happy to pay for a quality product like this from a UK manufacturer. As always, this review isn’t solicited in any way and I paid for the item from my own pocket.
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi everyone,
What follows is probably going to sound more than a bit flowery and nostalgic but it’s true to my feelings. When Olympus released the PEN-F camera all I could do was look longingly and admiringly at pictures of it and marvel at its beautiful retro rangefinder looks. That’s all I could do as I certainly couldn’t afford to buy one. Years later I found one going second hand in mint condition at a price I absolutely couldn’t resist and so I took the plunge. It was a very long time since I was that excited to see any piece of photographic gear arrive on my doorstep.
This camera, more than any other camera I’ve owned in years, has served to reignite and fuel my passion for photography. One only has to look at it and hold it in one’s hand to get a buzz of excitement. Every time I use it I’m transported on a journey back and I’m seventeen again using my first Olympus 35mm film camera. Of course this is my very personal experience, not only does the camera look a thing of beauty it has everything and more that I require in a camera. If it wasn’t such a joy to use I’d put it in a display case where I could sit and look at it’s beautiful looks but that’s not what I bought it for. 🙂
This camera is just made for anyone who shares my passion for classic styling with the obvious benefits of modern technology. I don’t know if we’ll ever see its likes again, this camera has achieved cult status in a relatively short period of time. No camera is perfect but it suits my needs and comes as close as I’ve ever experienced to the simplistic joy of taking photographs. There’s something indescribable about the feeling one gets when using it.
Kind regards
Leigh
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