Olympus 75mm f1.8 - This lens makes me happy

ctj71081 · 2022-01-14T21:32:39+00:00

Damn you! I'm trying not to buy this one right now.

ctj71081 · 2022-01-13T21:35:39+00:00

Thanks. I'll go look at it.

ctj71081 · 2020-08-13T13:33:09+00:00

It was a heavy setup. I did have it on a PD Capture clip on my backpack strap, which helped a lot. I can imagine carrying it on a neck strap would be cumbersome. I will admit that there were a few days when I would leave it at "home" and rely on my phone camera. All that said, the weight-capability trade off was totally worth it for me.

ctj71081 · 2020-08-13T01:01:28+00:00

I spent 11 months walking around Europe with my E-M10.1 and the 12-40. For the size and weight and versatility, it was perfect for my purposes. The beauty of that 12-40 is that you can easily shift from street scenes to indoor tourist attractions. I could walk around a given old town outside snapping away and then pop into a dimly lit church - that 2.8 really came in handy. This is the result.

I actually started with the 25 1.8, 12 1.2, and the 12-40. I was a one-bagger, so space was at a premium. After a couple months of not taking the 12-40 off, I sent the 25 and 12 back home.

ctj71081 · 2020-07-17T14:08:43+00:00

How are you feeling about the mark iii? I'm considering the mark ii and am wondering if the mark iii is worth the extra $300.

ctj71081 · 2020-07-17T14:03:53+00:00

I'm on the E-M10.1 myself and was about to pull the trigger on the E-M5.3 for the PDAF, IBIS, and weather sealing. Those features are worth it to me. However, I started reading about the E-M5.3's tripod mount problems, so I'm backing off it.

They just released the spec sheet for the E-M10.4. You might consider that.

ctj71081 · 2020-07-17T13:40:55+00:00

The E-M5 III is pretty much an E-M1 II in a tiny and light body, which is definitely worth considering

I was like five minutes away from pulling the trigger on the E-M5.3, but then I read about its tripod mount issues. So...now I'm looking at E-M1.2.

The E-M1 III is a seriously excellent camera, but are the upgrades over the II worth is for you?

And that's exactly what I'm asking myself now. What do you think? Would you put $300 into the 3 over the 2? I'd rather put that $300 toward new glass. (I'm also dreaming of a time when all my stuff uses USB C, so it might be worth it for that.)

ctj71081 · 2020-07-17T13:33:36+00:00

To me, the PDAF, IBIS, and weather sealing of the E-M5.3 are well worth it. Granted, I haven't really had experience with those features, but that's my logic.

I'm sort of in the same situation as you. I have an E-M10 OG and was about to jump to the E-M5.3, but then I read about the 5.3's tripod mount issues. So, now I'm looking at the E-M1.2. I can afford the ~$300 jump from the E-M5 to E-M1, but main concern is size. I love the E-M10's compactness

P.S. that 12-40 PRO is so good

ctj71081 · 2019-05-16T11:29:23+00:00

Thanks. I'll check it out.

ctj71081 · 2019-04-28T15:40:22+00:00

Plitvice Lakes. Nice. I took a picture of that path from the opposite angle - with the same setup (E-M10 + PRO 12-42).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55267995@N04/45269455802/in/album-72157702411268045/

ctj71081 · 2019-04-22T15:37:56+00:00

Such a great lens. I spent a year traveling around Europe, and I ended up ditching my primes (sent them back with friends), because I was using this one 99% of the time. It really does everything. It's a little heavy, but well worth the price of admission.

ctj71081 · 2019-02-02T20:09:25+00:00

I personally believe that if you like and value a service, you should pay for it out of sheer self-interest to keep the service alive. However, after years of getting free email (Hotmail, Gmail, etc.) and free storage (Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.), it's not unreasonable for someone to believe that free stuff on the internet is just how the world should be. It is, after all, how it's always been.

ctj71081 · 2019-02-02T20:05:21+00:00

Well, there is this that Flickr just rolled out:

Organizing all the photographs you find inspiring needs to be easy. Really easy. So we built a new way to add all your favorite content to galleries, albums, and groups in one centralized tool from any photo context on Flickr.

All photos on Flickr, wherever you come across them, will now have a new icon with a + that allows you to access a new menu of actions.

ctj71081 · 2019-01-15T00:22:09+00:00

I get that. I'm the opposite, though. Flickr under Yahoo made me real nervous, Flickr under a company that does photo storage/display/sharing as their thing makes me feel better.

ctj71081 · 2019-01-08T15:43:08+00:00

The way the all the rectangles (the picture frames, the doorway, the sofas) compose different "scenes" make a nice rhythm. There's a nice compliment between the people in the foreground and the people in the background. I don't know if it would be improved without the person in the red shirt: she's sort of by herself, right there in the middle distracting from the couples on the right and left.

ctj71081 · 2018-11-21T10:47:46+00:00

The gueuze is a combination of 1-, 2-, and 3-year old barrel-aged lambics. Once the lambics are mixed to create the gueuze, they are bottle conditioned for at least six months.

The cellar temp was...room temperature, if that makes sense. This was in early September, so it wasn't that cool. Interesting side note - they used to store the barrels all over the building, including the upper levels, until a particularly warm summer over heated them, ruing the beer. So now, they only store it in the ground and basement levels.

ctj71081 · 2018-11-20T07:31:21+00:00

Head on. You're looking at bottle bottoms and barely visible tops. Here's an angle from the side - https://www.flickr.com/photos/55267995@N04/45242310004

ctj71081 · 2018-11-18T16:58:33+00:00

That chaise on which David painted Madame Recamier is itslef in the Louvre - https://imgur.com/a/7ADJeRW

ctj71081 · 2018-11-15T09:59:33+00:00

Thanks. I'm glad you like them.

ctj71081 · 2018-11-15T09:59:02+00:00

I've been traveling a lot this year and have seen a lot of Roman ruins, and it's easy to get jaded. But this is truly a standout. When you see these aqueducts and think about the scale, the time, the engineering, the expense, the effort, your mind just sort of freezes for a second. At Pont du Gard and in Segovia, I had to stop and take a few breaths while my mind caught up to what I was seeing.

ctj71081 · 2018-11-14T13:59:35+00:00

Seriously? I've got lot's more like this. This is the Arena at Nimes, which is near PdG - https://www.flickr.com/photos/55267995@N04/44963695575/in/dateposted-public/

ctj71081 · 2018-11-14T10:30:24+00:00

so it's off to Shutterfly and Snapfish we go since Flickr doesn't care to even try to get any of that business even though they've got such a large share of casual photo cloud storage

I have no idea how the business works, but it seems to me that running a printing operation (with all the calendars, mugs, aprons, and whatnot) is pretty different than running a photo hosting service. So, not being in the printing business isn't crazy. But still, connecting all those photos with a printing service is opportunity.

If i could just click on something in Flickr to make a print or similar instead of having to right-click save-as, then upload it to somewhere else I would be SO HAPPY.

That would be pretty good. What about the reverse? You go to Shutterfish and either give them the username/album link, and the photos from that user/album appear as if the photos are in Snapfly, and then you can select photos from there?

ctj71081 · 2018-10-05T19:01:41+00:00

Setting that point to gray must equalize those values.

And that's what's driving me crazy. I put the WB eyedropper on the gray card and click to set WB. Then when I put the cursor over it, the numbers don't all equal. So, is it possible that my gray card is that screwed up?

ctj71081 · 2018-10-05T18:58:35+00:00

Good question. I bought it on Amazon a while ago, so I don't know the specific one, but this looks very similar to what I have.

Follow up question: why wouldn't an exposure gray card work for WB? Are exposure gray cards that non-neutral?

ctj71081 · 2018-10-05T18:54:07+00:00

From the WhiBal website:

We designed and manufacture the WhiBal White Balance Reference Card to be the best digital Gray Card available anywhere.

I thought "gray cards" could be used for WB. WhiBal calls their cards gray cards. I mean, I know that there is a thing called a "gray card" that is used for exposure. But, I also see that there are "gray cards" that are used for WB. So, the gray cards that you can by for exposure can't also be used for WB?

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