New Toys

I like the four thirds format - a reasonable compromise between quality of image and size of kit.  It's better that the camera is actually with you.  One real problem is the cost of native lenses.  This is still a relatively new format and making things small increases cost.

A friend at work has been kind enough to lend me some old Olympus OM glass - something new to play with.

Original Olympus adapters are also expensive, but quality alternatives can be obtained fairly cheaply. The above taken with an Olympus 50mm OM lens at F2.8 - sharp, but shallow depth of field - the dust is on the box, not the lens.

Nice clean example of the Olympus OM 50mm F1.8 lens, tempted to get one of these after a very short time playing - much cheaper than current alternatives.  Operation has to be fully manual, but have continued with manual after the C&G stuff anyway.  The camera will still meter for light.

2secs, 50mm, F1.8, ISO400

Crop of above showing shallow depth of field.

My wife was sewing while I started playing with my new toy.  These 2 images, both cropped, were taken at night with only the living-room lights (3 X 5watt energy savers). Both taken at F1.8.  Some edge sharpening on the square image below.  Great detail as this crop is about 25% of image.

Few images below taken in the grey daylight that was available this morning.  Cropped and converted to jpeg's.