Monday 14 September 2015
Social newsflash
For those interested, I've been working on quite a lot of projects, much of it as part of the Arbeitskreis ShiBarista. At the moment I am experimenting with different social media platforms, some of the work done with Arbeitskreis ShiBarista is posted on their accounts on Instagram and Deviant Art. Enjoy!
Sunday 5 January 2014
Quick update
Time flies and the last post on this blog is from 2012. For the time being, my blogging activity will most likely not increase. Instead you may want to follow my facebook-page: amne.sieht on facebook
So until the next update, here's a cat. The internet loves cats.
So until the next update, here's a cat. The internet loves cats.
Sunday 11 March 2012
SLR Magic Hyperprime 12mm F1.6
For a couple of days I have been the proud owner of a Hyperprime 12mm lens. If you have not read them yet, here are two interesting reviews by Steve Huff and 3dkraft.de.
I would also like to point out that the images shown here are not OOC-jpegs, but have been post processed in bibble5. This may be less puristic, but i am interested to show what this lens can do as part of the whole equipment.
All images have been uploaded to flickr in full resolution: SLR Magic Hyperprime 12mm F1.6
The Hyperprime is a manual focus, metal body lens. Its size fits quite well in combination with the GF1. Once you get used to the fact that the focus ring is the one closer to the camera it is great to handle - if you can live with manual focus.
I use some other manual focus lenses, and this is by far the easiest to use. Due to the small focal length, DOF is rather large for everything that is further away than approximately 1 meter and you hardly can miss the focus. If you get closer than 1 meter, DOF gets more shallow and have to pay attention to what you are doing. The minimum focus distance of the lens is 15 cm - measured from the sensor of the camera, so you can actually go much closer (~5 cm). This allows taking close-ups from a quite unique perspective, as the next images show.
If you return to a more regular distance you can still work with DOF quite nicely.
Just for the record, a note about the vignetting on those last two images: They were taken at F1.6 and there is some vignetting at this aperture - but it is less dramatic unless post process the images in the way that i did (which was intentional).
DOF aside, one of the reasons for bright lenses is the ability to shoot images in dark places. Actually the places in the next images were not that dark; i could work easily at ISO 200-500 at 1/30s.
A lot was written about flares when bright sources of light (mostly the sun) were involved. Stopping down to F2.0 was suggested to avoid them. As shown in the images below, most of the flaring (especially the one in the 4th image) was gone already at F1.8. The sun was somewhere above the right upper corner of the images.
To conclude my first impressions of this lens, i really like the close up capabilities, the wide aperture and the handling of the lens. Flaring is a bit of an issue, but can be minimized by using F1.8.
Disclaimer: I received my lens directly from SLR Magic a bit earlier than everyone else - which actually didn't work out due to some problems with sending the money the first time. Apart from that i consider myself quite unbiased.
I would also like to point out that the images shown here are not OOC-jpegs, but have been post processed in bibble5. This may be less puristic, but i am interested to show what this lens can do as part of the whole equipment.
All images have been uploaded to flickr in full resolution: SLR Magic Hyperprime 12mm F1.6
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| GF1 with the lens attached (taken with an Olympus E3 by my dear colleague Boril) |
I use some other manual focus lenses, and this is by far the easiest to use. Due to the small focal length, DOF is rather large for everything that is further away than approximately 1 meter and you hardly can miss the focus. If you get closer than 1 meter, DOF gets more shallow and have to pay attention to what you are doing. The minimum focus distance of the lens is 15 cm - measured from the sensor of the camera, so you can actually go much closer (~5 cm). This allows taking close-ups from a quite unique perspective, as the next images show.
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| Old Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) |
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| Old TEM II |
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| Close up |
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| Close up II |
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| Close up III |
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| Stadtpark Graz |
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| Schloßberg Graz |
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| Schloßberg Graz |
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| Uhrturm Graz |
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| More DOF |
DOF aside, one of the reasons for bright lenses is the ability to shoot images in dark places. Actually the places in the next images were not that dark; i could work easily at ISO 200-500 at 1/30s.
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| A dark place |
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| Märchengrottenbahn I |
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| Märchengrottenbahn II |
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| DOF and flares I (F1.8) |
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| DOF and flares II (F1.6) |
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| DOF and flares III (F1.8) |
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| DOF and flares IV (F1.6) |
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| DOF and flares V (F1.8) |
Friday 9 March 2012
Hello world
I love taking pictures, and i guess I'm also a bit of a gear head. While I probably feel the need to write something about that, I don't really mind editing my website (amne.sieht.at) more than once a year.
Actually my website consists primarily of links to my page on facebook (some nice stuff), flickr-(more nice stuff) and google+ (no real content; links back to my website). I also do some event photography, lots of photos (among those made by other people) can be found on the facebook-page of EBM Elite Graz. Feel free to take a look around.
This blog will be featuring more photography-related content than just images. I recently came into possession of the SLRmagic 12mm F1.6 Hyperprime for Micro Four Thirds - finally completing my quest for a bright wide angle lens. Expect a post about it soon.
Actually my website consists primarily of links to my page on facebook (some nice stuff), flickr-(more nice stuff) and google+ (no real content; links back to my website). I also do some event photography, lots of photos (among those made by other people) can be found on the facebook-page of EBM Elite Graz. Feel free to take a look around.
This blog will be featuring more photography-related content than just images. I recently came into possession of the SLRmagic 12mm F1.6 Hyperprime for Micro Four Thirds - finally completing my quest for a bright wide angle lens. Expect a post about it soon.
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