Better late than never: We wish all of our readers a great and succesful year 2017! Thank you for reading our blog and for all your contributions and comments. This is our retrospective conclusion of the favorite images that we took in the passed year. Phillip’s 2016 2016 was a very eventful year for me. … Continue reading 12 images from 2016
Hi Oliver, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you use manual Lenses?” I am an industrial economist and live near Frankfurt, Germany. Photography has been my hobby for more than 25 years. When I started I was never satisfied with the image quality of analog 35mm film, so I turned … Continue reading The manual photographers series part 3: Oliver Fecher (aidualk)
In this series we interview amateur photographers just like us, who inspire us and who share our passion for photographing with manual lenses. Hi Martijn, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you use manual Lenses? I’m Martijn Kort (33), photographer and airline captain from the Netherlands. About 6 years ago I got … Continue reading The manual photographers series part 2: Martijn Kort
Introduction All full frame E-mount cameras (except for the A7r) feature an electronic shutter in addition to the mechanical shutter. While most of them only offer an “electronic first curtain shutter” the A7s(II) and and A7rII even offer a completely silent, purely electronic shutter. But there are unfortunately some limitations you should be aware of.
When I took this picture in late August I was working all day on some papers for university, so after many hours behind the desk some sport and photography was well earned. In the Bag I packed my small camera bag* with the lightest lenses I could find in my cabinet: a Olympus OM 3.5/28*, Zeiss C/Y … Continue reading Making of series part 1: “The Path” with Olympus OM 3.5/28