I saw on 43rumors.com that the Olympus E-PL3 was being sold at Newegg for just $199 with the 14-42 kit lens included. I checked it out and it was real.The E-PL3 has been out since 2011. It has a 12mp Micro 4/3 sensor. DXO scored it only 499 for high ISO, just around one third of a stop better than the Sony RX100 (which measured 390), and about the same as the RX100 II (483). Nothing to write home about for an MFT sensor. However, note that the E-PL3 has a tilting LCD, built-in image stabilization, and face- and...
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Friday, 6 December 2013
Back in April of this year, Sigma surprised everyone by announcing the Sigma 18-35 f/1.8, the first zoom lens for a large sensor that had such a wide constant f/1.8 aperture. Some even thought it was a late April Fool's announcement. But it was real. Then people wondered what kind of image quality compromises we would have to put up with to get such a fast lens. When DXO tested the lens in September, everyone was astounded that not only was the Sigma 18-35 the fastest zoom lens, it was also the sharpest APS-C zoom ever. ...
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Fotodiox has a deal on speedlight modifiers, just for today. The kit includes: 1x 18" Beauty Dish1x 14" Hexagon Softbox1x 6"x8" Diffuser Softbox 1x 6"x8" 50 Degree Light Grid1x 10 Degree Snoot1x 20 Degree Snoot1x Popup Flash Diffuser For today (12/5/13), the kit is $67.48, half off its regular price of $134.95. I haven't tested any of them myself, but they seem similar to the Speedlight Pro Kit, which has been out for a few years now and does have samples, and was even tested by David Hobby. There's also a more...
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
My iPad is back, hurrah, now I can use the brilliant Blogsy app and post more frequently. It's a silver iPad Air with the handsome looking iOS 7 (although some apps still look old fashioned, and uses the old keyboard, hmm, like Blogsy for example). Today I will show you a few of my favorite pictures taken with the Olympus 45 1.8, one of the best lenses you could ever get for your MFT camera. Hit the jump for the full post. David &...
Sunday, 1 December 2013
I hope you're having a great Thanksgiving weekend. My parents came to visit and we had dinner at a resort called Terranea in a suburb of Los Angeles. I took a few shots, and this time I used flash. I'll discuss the approaches I used for three scenarios: sunset, an outdoor dinner, and a fireplace.SUNSETTo ensure that the colors of the sunset would be captured, I exposed for the highlights (in this case, by selecting Active D-Lighting...
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