Photography, history, politics…
Recently, I went for a trip across the water, to the neighbouring city. I was actually there for a seminar – but found time for a short walk with my camera. Olympus Pen F with 17mm F1.8 and 45mm F1.8.
Has Adobe given MFT a new lease of life? No matter how much you like the MFT format, there is no denying that it has some drawbacks. The most important one – and the only one I really care about – is poor low light performance. Everything else being equal, the smaller sensor will mean … Read more
There are first movers, and then there are late movers. Clearly, I must belong to the second category. At a time when some are predicting the death of the Micro Four Thirds standard, I have been drifting slowly, but steadily towards it. It started almost two years ago, when I was on the outlook for … Read more
I have built myself a new darkroom. When I was young, that would have involved the use of plywood, power tools and black paint. Nowadays it’s easier: it just means putting together a new PC. It wasn’t planned to be. But one day my stationary computer just wouldn’t start up. I tried every trick in … Read more
To me, travel and photography are intimately interconnected. I would hate to go on a trip without a camera. But at the same time I don’t want to be bogged down by a lot of heavy gear. Depending on circumstances I might bring with me a couple of lenses, including a prime, such as a … Read more
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This is probably not an unusual scenario for many users of Adobe Lightroom: when travelling away from home you bring a laptop together with you camera. This allows you not only to back up photos from your memory cards, but also to import them into Lightroom for sorting and maybe some initial processing, or even … Read more
A bunch of school kids in the Valley of Queens, Egypt. If all school kids at my museum came with that look on their face, I think I would be willing to work there for free….
On a trip to Italy last autumn, I came by an unusually well equipped camera shop in Siena. Amidst a lot of other stuff, they had several Pentax lenses on their shelves. One of them being the SMC Pentax DA 1:2.4 35mm AL. This is a fairly cheap piece of glass already, but the price … Read more
Normally you would be looking at all the interesting objects that are inside the museum. And the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for sure has some impressive objects to look at. However, the look outside from within what is now a museum, but used to be a railway station, through the glass-face of a gigantic clock towards the Sacré Coeur, is no less fascinating.