Paul De Bra

For landscapes you can very often get away with 12mm and for cities you often cannot. I just returned from a conference trip to Bratislava (Slovakia) and although it does not have many narrow ...

Not just because I'm still using it after 5 years but image quality has not improved as significantly after this as the improvement going from the 12MP sensors to the 16MP in the E-M5.

Actually, I live in the Netherlands. I have owned and used the 9-18. I still have the 20mm f/1.7 and 45mm f/1.8. You certainly do need the wide angle. I finally gave up on the 9-18 to get the 7-14. ...

At such close distance and using f/1.8 the DoF is razor-thin. I think I found some small part that is in focus and is very sharp. Most of the image is out of focus. With the 25mm lens DoF is much ...

If the decentering is very slight you could try a shim under the mount. Some people have been able to fix minor issues this way. It is more likely to really solve the issue with a prime lens than ...

An electronic shutter will become usable for fast action when it becomes a "global shutter", i.e. with all pixels registering light at exactly the same time. That is not the case with the current ...

My experience is from 2008: I tried to get a Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 for my Canon dslr. It had a clearly soft corner. I brought it back to the store, tested another there, same thing, and another, and ...

The blur on the lefthand side looks like the vertical lines are double (more so than horizontal). Not sure if the shutter could have something to do with it. I'd try it with electronic shutter ...

Typically a camera becomes worth buying some time after a replacement model has been introduced. So as long as there is no E-M5-III the price of the E-M5-II is staying too high. You can now ...

One pretty much like the original: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1646892 Or a larger more decorative one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1261944 Cost is well under $1 (but you need to have a ...

Obviously some subpar copies will have soft corners. I have this lens for pictures like this: 20mm 1/40s f/2.2 I need the players left and right to still be very sharp. The 20mm does that very ...

Why do people sell a lens? Sometimes it really is because they don't use it any more after getting something else, sometimes they need the money, but sometimes they sell because they are not so ...

It is ironic that on the Olympus cameras with anti-shock the panny is very good. WIth electronic shutter it should also be good on a Panny camera, but mechanical shutter and no anti-shock ...

Actually industry practice with consumer-grade lenses is that quality control (unless it changed in recent years) is limited to checking electrical signal processing and maybe whether the ...

The two conflicting statements about the 12-50 just mimic what happens with other lenses: different copies vary wildly. When dpreview showed the E-M5 with 12-50 when it came out the pics were ...

The latest kit lenses tend to be pretty good. if yours was unusable it must have been defective and should be sent in for replacement or warranty repair. Same with a horribly soft 12-32 which is ...

Finally the right answer posted. When I buy something from say Amazon Germany and have it shipped to my home address in the Netherlands Amazon charges the VAT rate of the Netherlands. So you pay ...

Indeed poor writing. If you have a very fast lens, like f/1.8 or faster and it is also really sharp then stopping down to f/2.8 will likely give you the very best sharpness. The lens does not ...

In the first crops you can already see from the edge of the pool that the focus is closer on the f/1.8 lens shot than on the f/1.2 lens shot. (The edge of the pool is sharper on the f/1.8 lens.) Th ...

Fortunately the 1/8s wait after the shutter closes seems enough to solve most of the visible shutter shock for me. So in my experience the shock from the shutter closing was worse than the shock ...