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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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I'm very fond of my new camera, Olympus OM-D E-M5. This is the flagship of Olympus' Micro 4/3 line-up. It is a very small camera, but while it looks like a 1970's film camera, it's a real system camera.
After the initial enthusiasm, I stopped bringing my DSLR on game nights. One reason was the size: with my backbag full of games, there was simply no space for the camera.
Armed with the very small Panasonic 20mm pancake lens (equivalent of 40mm on full-frame camera, so it's a slightly wide normal lens), OM-D is a very small camera and much easier to carry - almost pocket-sized.
Combined with high ISO capabilities and very good in-body image stabilizer, getting good photos is fairly easy. The Brass photo above has a shutter speed of 1/8 s, and it's shot handheld (well, elbows on table). It's not the sharpest photo ever, but good enough for the 1000x750 size. I know I can't do that with my Canon.
Fri May 25, 2012 11:01 am
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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Yesterday I had the new OM-D with me for the first time. It's a small camera, particularly with the Panasonic 20mm pancake lens, and an absolute pleasure to carry around, compared to the Canon DSLR.
Here are some black and white photos of the people I play games with, inspired by a B/W conversion eBook I just read.
Once I get the uploads approved, I'll show you what an image stabilizer can do - I have a hand-held photo shot at 1/8 s shutter speed. Try that without a stabilizer!
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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More work with strobes and Olympus OM-D. I now have two Olympus FL-300R strobes, and they work perfectly with the OM-D. Setting their flashes from the camera is very easy and they pop reliably.
Which is the best photo?
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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I've got a new camera. I've been shooting with a Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i), but I just got the new Olympus OM-D E-M5, the latest camera in the Micro 4/3 system.
The first impression is very good: it's small, the lenses are small, the in-body image stabilization is wonderful, the electronic viewfinder is great... all in all a fun camera to use. I think the days are numbered for my Canon - this one's just so much more fun.
Here are my first board game shots with the camera, two shots of Eclipse:
Which one do you prefer? I'm not sure which one I like better. One of these is likely my candidate for the photo of the month next month.
The camera may be brand new, but the lens I used is approximately my age - it's a Soviet lens called Jupiter 37A (and thus highly appropriate for shooting anything space-related), with Moscow Olympics branding. It's a manual focus 135mm M42 lens, but m4/3 is a fun system, as you can adapt most lenses to it with a simple adapter. Sure, the focal length doubles (so the Jupiter is actually a 270mm lens), but OM-D makes shooting long lenses easy, thanks to magnification and stabilized viewfinder.
So, I had to stand high on a chair and have the game on the floor to take the photo.
It was a fairly cloudy day, with useful but boring light. So, more light. I was trying to work with two strobes. In the photo with the shadows, there's just one strobe (guess where, heh), unmodified. In the other photo, there's also another strobe on top right, behind a large diffuser.
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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Real vintage photo, none of this fake iPhone stuff this time. Shot with a FED-5 rangefinder camera (made between 1977-1996) and a Jupiter 8 lens (made in 1956) on black-and-white film.
Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:37 am
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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Had to shoot some Kingdom Builder for a review. Here's what a quick photoshoot got me:
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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These Tobago photos are billion dollar images, aka Instagram shots, and look much better on iPhone screen. Tobago is rather photogenic, I should probably aim my DSLR at it as well... Those statues are cute.
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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I've got a new toy:
That's a FED-5, a Soviet rangefinder camera. It's still missing a lens, I've got two lenses coming in (a Jupiter 8 and an Industar 61, both 50mm normal lenses). Should be interesting...
It's not a very old camera, actually, it's from 1970s. It's the latest model and has all the features, like a built-in selenium light meter.
I'm not particularly serious about the camera. I'll shoot one roll of film and if the results aren't interesting, that's it. I'm planning to use the lenses on my Olympus OM-D E-M5 once I get it, that's the real purpose of the lenses.
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Mikko Saari
Finland
http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/ - the best Finnish board game resource!
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More photos of Coerceo. This time I setup the board in the initial position and started shooting that. I used tripod to stabilize the camera and took out several lenses... Here's one with the kit lens, as it was the only one to offer the ~24mm focal length I needed. Not a bad photo.
Then, a closeup with the 100mm lens. Took a portrait orientation, I think it gives this photo a nice twist, with all the diagonal lines going on.
It's been a while since I last used the nifty fifty (50mm/1.8). It's pretty awful, actually, now that I used it. I thought the 35mm/2 I have is a bit clunky, but the plastic fantastic is even worse. It buzzes like crazy while hunting for AF. Not my favourite lens, no, and no wonder I've been using the 35 a lot more.
Anyway, I like the photo. The 50mm lens did decent background blur as well, that can sometimes be a problem. This is shot wide open.
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