Ifke’s Preview

Posted on 31 januari 2012 by Lennert

Curvy, tasty, sexy Ifhegemeia! First shot of our second shoot!

5DII + 50mm 1.8 @f1.8 – 1/50th – ISO3200

Dana

Posted on 19 januari 2012 by Lennert

So, after a small preview of Dana‘s shoot, the rest of the pictures are finished retouching too! Enjoy!

New Lens: Canon EF 35mm F2.0

Posted on 17 januari 2012 by Lennert

Lacking a fast and compact wide-angled lens, I’ve added Canon’s 35 millie to my camera bag!

Using wide angle lenses probably isn’t the most popular thing when shooting models. But if you’ve seen some of my previous work, you’lI know I don’t tend to follow rules like that.

The lens is definitely usable wide-open, but stopping it down to F4 or F5,6 makes it razor-sharp. The first impressions regarding DoF are also pretty good. I’ve read some less positive remarks conserning this topic, but I’m going to have to wait for a field-test to decide on that.

As seen above, color rendition and contrast are also superb!

Conclusion: A suprisingly good, compact fixed focal lens. It’ll be a fun challenge to get to know the “new” focal length better

Repair, level: McGuyver

Posted on 11 januari 2012 by Lennert

Coming home after a good walk through the Belgian woods, I took off my camera bag, and saw my baby become airborn.. She fell and broke her face. Apparently the zipper wasn’t closed good enough.

cracked my heart too..

After tons of intarwebz, I didn’t find any reseller that shipped Panasonic parts to Belgium. To be honest, I didn’t even contact Panasonic for this.
So I decided to search ebay for broken GF1′s. Alas, no luck there either. I did find another solution though: a glass screen protector.

This is no perfect fit (there is a bit space on the left side), but the whole LCD is protected.
I first considered gorilla-glass, but I didn’t find anyone selling/cutting/gluing that kind of glass.
Anyway, I’m happy with my, imho, decent fix!