Ivan Lietaert
Lives in
Geluwe, Belgium
Works as a
English teacher
Has a website at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38317532@N03/
Joined on
May 3, 2009
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There are quite a few 'professional' open source alternatives, Darktable just to name one of them. Darktable runs on Linux and gives the user total contral and freedom.
WT21: "Don't do evil"
Bad Google! Bad! Go sit in the corner.
When the timeframe is finished, your storage will revert to standard. It is likely to be completely full by then. Your gmail and all related google apps will fail to work until you 'upgrade' by paying the monthly fee. This is what happened to me... Not 'evil', but extremely unfair...
In any case an illustration that putting a filter on for protection is worthless.
I bought the Nikon 1v at bargain price and for a couple of years, it was my favourite walk-about camera. I was looking forward to this new iteration coming to us with the DL-series. Its deletion saddens me. As Nikon and Canon are sharing the same market segment, my guess is that Canon soon also will be in dangerous waters... Too many people nowadays choose for their smartphone camera
My inner budget-aware self tells me that the 'plastic fantastic' €100 Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II is a much better choice (AF!) compared to this over-priced manual focus lens.
I also own an analog Auto Chinon 55mm f1.7 lens that has a crazy bokeh and a natural soft look, valued on eBay at about €35. My inner calculator tells me that is 14 times cheaper compared to this gear of the year Lensbaby...
Ivan Lietaert: I'm a great fan of Instax film. I have the Instax Wide 210 model and the Instax Mini 90 model. I regret that Fujifilm refuses to bring a high end model to the market with manual controls and good quality glas/lenses. The alternative is Lomography.com, but their glas is even worse.
I modded a 1926 (!) ICA Dresden Reflex camera myself, mounting a lomography instant back (takes Instax wide film) on it. The camera has a Carl Zeiss lens. This setup makes Instax film shine and reveals its true potential.
Here is a small collection of my shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanlietaert/sets/72157650037545493
The Fujifilm Instax 300 is very similar to the 210 model.
Ivan Lietaert: I'm a great fan of Instax film. I have the Instax Wide 210 model and the Instax Mini 90 model. I regret that Fujifilm refuses to bring a high end model to the market with manual controls and good quality glas/lenses. The alternative is Lomography.com, but their glas is even worse.
I modded a 1926 (!) ICA Dresden Reflex camera myself, mounting a lomography instant back (takes Instax wide film) on it. The camera has a Carl Zeiss lens. This setup makes Instax film shine and reveals its true potential.
Here is a small collection of my shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanlietaert/sets/72157650037545493
The dresden camera has a large viewfinder (which I needed to lift too in order to get the focus right) with a ground glas.
In this review, I try to explain the charm of shooting Instax film.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2015/06/29/instax-fun-fun-fun-in-memory-of-my-father-andre-lietaert-by-ivan-lietaert/
I'm a great fan of Instax film. I have the Instax Wide 210 model and the Instax Mini 90 model. I regret that Fujifilm refuses to bring a high end model to the market with manual controls and good quality glas/lenses. The alternative is Lomography.com, but their glas is even worse.
I modded a 1926 (!) ICA Dresden Reflex camera myself, mounting a lomography instant back (takes Instax wide film) on it. The camera has a Carl Zeiss lens. This setup makes Instax film shine and reveals its true potential.
Here is a small collection of my shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanlietaert/sets/72157650037545493
nikon power: Polaroid's rechargeable Zip wireless printer can kill the Instax instantly.
At parties, people can connect to the Zip printer via bluetooth to print shots from their cellphones.
http://www.polaroid.com/zip-instant
And again, the printer would work well for women.
The polaroid zip printer allows to select and print only good pictures. Some people, though, prefer the true, analog, film, one-shot experience. Any body shooting analog will confirm this is a whole different type of photography. You are comparing apples with pears.
Very informative and a nice picture, of course.
I have a question: why add an ND filter to increase exposure time even more? How does this improve the looks of the picture?
(I know you mentioned the blur of the fish, but that was accidental, not?)
Frank_BR: This Jurassic lens comes from the film era, when anything less than 6x6 was considered small format. Then digital photography came along...
More than five years ago, Michael Reichmann from Luminous Landscape showed that a digital camera Canon 1DS with "only" 11 MP produced a more detailed image with less noise than a 6x7 film. Today, that the digital sensors are even better than in 2009, a good m43 camera can equal or exceeds the 6x7 film format.
The m43 sensor has a crop factor of about 4x in relation to 6x7, so a modern 600mm lens adapted to a m43 camera should overcome the NASA monster of 2540mm. Besides, if you consider that a CMOS sensor has sensitivity 50 ~ 100 times higher than a 6x7 film, then it's clear why NASA discarded this monstrous lens long time ago.
Another problem is 'data rot'. Vinct Cerf, one of the founders of the digital age warned for it, not so long ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos-vint-cerf
It is likely people of the future won't be able to open our digital files, or it will be far to timeconsuming to sift through the thousands of pictures each individual person makes, right now.
You better have a good EVF in order to be able to nail the focus with this lens wide open. Focus assist and zebra won't be 100 per cent neither. Maybe 3 out of 100 dpreview users will be able to use this lens in real life, just because for the others, their eyes aren't good enough.
Full Definition of USABLE
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: capable of being used
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: convenient and practicable for use
Ivan Lietaert: In which country is the 'National Media Museum'? As any reference or even link is missing, this is just another example of poor, sloppy journalism...
The writer of this piece must think his country is the centre of the universe...
Belgium has 'French' fries and the saxophone, and of course the best beer in the world.
Why on earth does the UK have a 'National Media Museum'? Can you name just one respected UK photographer, dead or alive, that wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic?
Ivan Lietaert: What is "TV distortion"?
http://www.edmundoptics.com/technical-resources-center/imaging/distortion/
SDPharm: > Kowa announces pricing for three Micro Four Thirds lens
So, what is the pricing? Am I missing something, or DPR is trying not to be helpful?
Just another article re-writing text they found elsewhere; who cares about good coherence of a tex? Hide the essential information refered to in the title deep down into the captions so it is hardly noticable... Mentioning "TV distortion", but carelessly not explaining it... that's just a lazy text writers's mistake.
What is "TV distortion"?
These lenses require excellent EVF in order to nail the focus, or an external monitor. I wouldn't want to use these on my GH3...
Also, I guess the caption writer works for a fashion magazine as a second job, because he/she pays way too much attention to color and style .-)
In which country is the 'National Media Museum'? As any reference or even link is missing, this is just another example of poor, sloppy journalism...
The writer of this piece must think his country is the centre of the universe...