Articles populaires – Shooting with my hybrid cam

25 février 2015

Paris is Magic !

It is always a great pleasure to have a walk in Paris by night. Because Paris is everything... ... Paris is Light Samyang fish-eye, f/3.5, 1/6 , iso3200 ... Paris is History Samyang fish-eye, f/3.5, 1/25 , iso3200 ... Paris is People Pana-Leica 25mm,...

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9 juin 2014

Zocca w/ my friends

This year, we spent our special week-end between friends in Zocca, Emilia Romagna, Italy. And as usual we had a very good time... These are the things we did do: we stared at sunsets, Pana-Leica 25mm, f/4.0, 1/ 1000, iso200 we continuously listened to...

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26 décembre 2014

Fish-eyed Sermaise

Well, I recently moved to Blancheface (Sermaise), a small peaceful village 50 km away from Paris, completely lost in the countryside. Inside a typical french house from the 18th century, including an old fireplace and strange stairs^^ I would say that...

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26 mai 2014

Dark (tricolor) ages

I'm definitively convinced that we are entering (or have already entered) some kind a new dark ages in Europe and especially in France. Unemployement is continuously rising, poperty is clearly spreading out, politics are close to useless and the whole...

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30 janvier 2013

De fish...

Following my brother's addiction to the NEX-7 and his continuously growing lens collection, I also decided - again...! - to buy a new toy for my OMD... This is the Samyang 7.5mm f\3.5 fish-eye, a very solid-built manual lens that fits sooo nicely with...

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28 août 2017

Chartreuse

Hiking, flying, swimming, caving... We had an excellent time this summer in the beautiful Chartreuse mountains ! A few pictures here. Olympus MZ 12-50, 12mm, f/9.0, 1/500, iso200 For those who like wildness and are not afraid to follow vertiginous paths,...

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13 juin 2012

Very first shots with my Olympus E-M5

You may need to know a couple of things about myself as an amateur photographer. The first one is that I'm indeed a complete amateur, even a beginner you could say. My goal is to have fun, as simple as this ! The second thing is that my antediluvian Powershot...

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13 janvier 2013

Dramatic tone

Since the end of the world has miserably failed (hopefully !), one can move on & explore more deeply life's enjoyments... This is what I did using the Olympus Viewer software, trying to re-work extensively a couple of landscapes pictures with the Dramatic...

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16 mai 2013

Spring wasp

Imagine a forest in the SW of France: oaks, chestnuts, a few pines, birdsongs... Atmosphere is humid, almost rainy despite springtime. Imagine you are standing there with your camera, starting to be cold under the cloudy sky, waiting for some bird to...

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16 juin 2012

Shooting fun panoramas with a phone

With the Nokia Lumia 800, you can do it. This is very fast & easy, and the rendering is quite fair given that you are using a (smart) phone. But this is of course very poor compared to a real camera hopefully...! Here are the examples I've been promising...

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23 juin 2012

Dancers in the dark

Shooting moving subjects in very low light conditions is obviously an extremely difficult task for a camera - and for the shooter. As far as I am concerned, I never succeded with my old G3 in getting sharp and nice pictures in such conditions, except...

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23 décembre 2013

season's greetings

I realize that thanks to the christmas eve, the new year's eve and all these end-of-the-year parties, we should all have opportunities to see and hear fireworks in the coming days. Luckily, i already heard two of them during the past days, i.e. before...

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13 février 2014

ParSe project

I've been a bit lazy these days about photography... Actually I have a good excuse, I've been working hard on my new music project, called ParSe project. By the way, you can track down several pictures from this blog on the ParSe project brand new website......

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9 septembre 2012

Trying to get the moon

I think I now have a pretty fair lens collection to feed my OMD. The very good kit lens Olympus 12-50mm f 3.5-6.3 for landscapes & macros. The fabulous Panasonic Leica 25mm f 1.4 for... basically everything! The excellent Olympus 45mm f 1.8 for portraits....

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15 juin 2012

Millstatt w/ my friends

I spent the last week-end in Millstatt, Austria, with 8 of my best old friends. This was a quite intense & amazing time - thank you guys ! It was also for me the opportunity to practice with my camera & its two lenses, feeling their bokehs and playing...

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19 juillet 2013

New working flow

As you might know, Olympus recently released its 3rd version of Olympus Viewer (3.0). I was quite excited to test this new version, expecting some major relevant improvements. And I have to say I 've been terribly disappointed: there is NO significant...

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17 mars 2013

Snowy March

The good news is that... ...we spent a terrific vacation week in Presles, with great weather, plenty of snow and not a soul out there. Ideal for a winter break ! This was also my first tests using the OMD panorama mode as you can see here below. Presles,...

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1 mars 2013

Panorama of micro 4/3 lenses

I spent a couple of hours trying to list all existing and announced lenses with MFT mounts. Because I'm curious, because it might be useful for some readers, and because I like classifying things since always^^ It turns out that the choice for m43 is...

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18 février 2013

Shots of the week-end

Since a couple of weeks I've been discovering the excellent Dxo Optics Pro 8 software (trial version). This piece of code has clearly very big pros, especially: Very simple & nice interface with only useful tools (in clear: better than LightRoom on this...

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2 décembre 2012

A day at the circus

Every year, my institute offers a Xmas show to our kids. We were this time in Paris, Pelouse de Rueuilly, to see the last show from the Arlette Gruss company. Quite impressive ! And this was a good opportunity to test again my OMD in low light conditions,...

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28 août 2012

I've got it ! :D

Coming back from Scotland, we spent some good time - as every summer - with family & friends in the South-West of France first and then in Brittany near Guérande and Loctudy. This was a very lovely & refreshing time. Except the fact that we celebrated...

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15 juillet 2012

See Gournay en Bray !

It has been raining all the week-end long, it has been cold, most of us are now in our fourties... And guess what ? This week-end was amazing :p Some photos here, all using the "Pin hole" Olympus filter, that I really find attractive for portraits. Only...

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30 juin 2012

Pink flower

It would be so great to be able to have a human eye in front of your camera sometimes... Human eye is so fast to focus and powerful to adapt in total darkness that it wins hands down against any lens ! Nevertheless there are some situations where your...

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24 mars 2013

Fujian 25mm f1.4 CCTV "toy" lens

Last thursday, my brother (ty Crikou !) brought me a very exciting present: 3 CCTV "toy" lenses (25mm f1.4, 35mm f1.7, 50mm f1.4), coming together with a m43 mount adapter and some macro rings. As you probably know, such very cheap C-mount lenses are...

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11 avril 2013

Best m43 lenses: consumers' top rated

Here is the list of the current 20 best rated micro 4/3 lenses. To do so, I've picked up and process the data from all the consumers' reviews (& associated yellow stars) I've been able to found on the Amazon websites worldwide, the most relevant ones...

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