The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing from Michael Mills on Vimeo.
Olympus E-P3 tested with the Sigma 150mm macro at DC.watch. Panasonic LX7 hands-on at DC.watch.
Buying more m4/3 cameras and lenses at Soundimagesplus.
Olympus Challenges Photokina Visitors to Put their Cameras to the Test (Photographyblog).
Panasonic G5 arrived in the hands of Soundimagesplus.
Panasonic LX7 tested at Trustedreviews.
Panasonic 45-150 mm 4.0-5.6 tested at Camerastuffreview.
Using GPS Tracklogs in Lightroom Maps fro Aerial Photography at Outbackphoto.
win $100 on e-p1.net.
Anonymous: “have today as a supplement made a new test of the same lens, now with a moving object. https://vimeo.com/48150666 AFC is much faster as wide (12mm).”
Bjarne: “Just thought I’d mention that, what seems to be, the first Lumix G5 unboxing is now available on youtube, http://youtu.be/d6wScBkzgJM. I have put a little unformal test on Vimeo of the AFC speed with the 12-35 mm f.2.8 on GH2 https://vimeo.com/47999097”
Marcelo: “I work in astronomical instrumentation (Scientific CCD cameras), and I’m subscribed to Photonics, a scientific magazine in electrooptics. Today I received the info at the link below, a development at Harvard School of Engineering, which can impact significantly the design of future camera lenses http://www.photonics.com”
Michael: “About a year ago I was pleasantly surprised to see you link to one of my GH2 Vimeo videos. This time I’m sending you a short and abstract interview video which strives to emulate a high contrast B&W film look, in case you wish to include it with one of your occasional “little bit of everything” entries: https://vimeo.com/48487720 (Editor’s note: video has been embedded on top of this post)”
Bruno: ” Seem to remember from reading the forum that you have an interest or background in physics / astronomy, so maybe this will interest you. I’m a research scientist at the South African Astronomical Observatory and this is something I did a few weeks ago mostly with my Olympus E-P3 with the Pana 20mm and Oly 17mm. I went up on the mountain and spent 4 nights to capture as much night sky as I could. We keep hearing that micro-4/3 don’t do well in low light or high ISO, so, being an anti-conformist, I decided to invest in the system to do just that! I’m not a pro by any measure, I’m pretty new to photography in general and 3 weeks ago I didn’t know much about the whole post-processing world, but I gave it a go anyway. I’m very happy with what I got from that small camera! I made a 90sec montage of over 1300 images from 5 different point of view, 13h total time on sky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzMhMazdOrU&hd=1”
Amanda: “Not a rumour but We shot a film using the GH2 for an 48hour project in Rotterdam. This is the film: https://vimeo.com/48292058 Unfortunately its spoken dutch without subtitles. In some time there will be an extended edit which will also be graded….This version is ungraded strait from the camera. I used the Cluster v6 Nebular patch from Driftwood.“
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First! When come new pics?
I can’t get enough of night sky videos… Damn it, why did I have to be born so long ago, instead of a couple of hundred years from now, when we’ll have space travel?
Ive been asking myself the same questions so many times… Any more and Ill get depressed ;<. I want to space travel too!
I really like Michael Mills’ video. What Camera and lenses did he/you use?
Hi Tobi,
Thanks!
It was shot with a GH2 and a Voigtlander 25mm F0.95 in Dynamic B&W mode with a LCW Fader ND and 1/4 Pro-Mist filter. I also added some grain overlays in post.
Marcello seems to have missed a somewhat important detail. Apparently, according to the Harvard announcement, the Phase-Shifted Flat Lens, is (in fact has to be) tuned to a specific wavelength. However, a lens that cannot capture the full visible spectrum is, to all intents and purposes, useless for general photography (never mind that even if it could, it probably would still be only a fixed aperture prime lens of god knows what focal length). Sadly, we are no closer to discovering the perfect wafer thin lens, than to discovering a cancer vaccine.
Incidentally, the model they have built was tuned to telecoms wavelength and they have not even attempted yet to built something tuned to any frequency within the visible spectrum.
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By the way: the correct link to Outback Photo is http://www.outbackphoto.net/news/2012/8/30/using-gps-tracklogs-in-lightroom-maps-for-aerial-photography.html
Actually, each nanoantenna is tuned to a specific wavelength, but that doesn’t eliminate the possibility of having different nanoantennas tuned to different frequencies… say red/green/blue. Of course, such a lens would be less efficient than a full spectrum lens.
Correct the individual nano-particles (or antennae) are tuned to a particular part of the wavelength. Theoretically this could produce a visible spectrum flat lens, its just a matter of how the IQ compares to phase delay optics. If it is even within the ballpark it would have a use in smartphone photography at least
> However, a lens that cannot capture the full visible spectrum is, to all intents and purposes, useless for general photography
That’s, before realizing that the flat lens tech also loses 90% of light. The things are definitely not for the general photography. Not at the moment.
> Bruno Letarte:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzMhMazdOrU&hd=1
Wow. Pretty cool.