Today a guest review from the Olympus OM-D camera.

 

Olympus OM-D Review

 

Hi,
My name is Ferry Knijn and I am a Dutch Dance and music Photograher. I mainly shoot dancers, musicians and sometimes more commercial work for advertisement and weddings. Currently the personal project I am working is the www.dutch-jazz-portraits.nl project. For of my work please look on www.55k-fotografie.nl or http://500px.com/FerryKnijn

 

For the past two weeks I had the Olymopus OM-D in combination  with the m.zuiko 12-50 f3.5-5.6 zoom lens (also the kit lens), the 45mm 1.8 and the 17m 1.8

 

During the 2013 Pro Imaging trade fair I first me the OM-D, I had it seen all ready in magazines, but on the exhibition it really caught my eye for the first time. Currently my main camera is a 5DmkII with a 24-70 2.8 and 70-200 2.8.

 

Currently I am looking for a small/light travel and street camera. I am getting more jobs for which I have to travel or shoot on in city’s or have to do a lot of walking, so not having to carry a lot of heavy gear can be nice for my back/shoulder. This is one of the reasons I got interested in the OM-D, it is like a mini sided DSLR.

 

I also have tried the Fuji X-E1, but I have the feeling the Fuji X-system isn’t complete enough yet. The amount of lenses isn’t all there and the support from software programs can be an issue. Which does not take away the Image quality is really great!!!

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Today a guestblog by one of our regular visitors RikerVP foto.
I think it makes a nice connection with the vintage series you have been reading on the blog the last few weeks, because this is something that happens a lot, in our studio people often bring in negatives/slides/old photos with the question “can you save it?” and luckily often I can, but sometimes it’s way more work than they think.

 

Zuid Holland Foto Studio – Rikervp Foto Retouching & Repair

A little while ago, I had a gentleman bring me 10 extremely damaged 2.5 x.2.5 cm film negatives. These negatives were so badly damaged from water and mould, white spots with totally missing information. This man asked me to repair the images as best I could as these image were an important piece of history to him. The images you see before you were taken around 1961/2 during the 1961/2 Tour de France and featured the “ASPRO” automobile. Aspro was a well known aspirin manufacture / seller in Europe at that time period.

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Out of the 10 images I selected 7 images that had a chance of being reconstructed digitally. The other 3 were well beyond repair. Over the span of several weeks I would work perhaps 10 – 18 hours on each image, repairing it in sections, working in sections is vitally important when working on complex images, removing mould digitally, artefacts and in most cases blown out skies and  having to replace them with a natural looking sky . This was agreed to with the owner of the negatives and given the approval to make it so.

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Working on images like these you could never make a living on as they are so labour intensive and require an extreme amount of patience. If you are to do this and charged an hourly rate to do them.. people could and would not afford to have them done. You either like the work, like the challenge and or like preserving a piece of history. In reality working on images like these.. they do not really pay for themselves.. You just got to have a love of  doing them.
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