My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.

Focus on imaging

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Next week I will be in the UK.
We will start at the Focus on Imaging show (March 3-6) where I will do 3 sessions per day for our friends of “The Flash Centre”.
My sessions will be announced at the booth, make sure you don’t miss them because I will try to do something different every show, and we have some wild ideas including…… well I just can’t tell you, you have to come and see for yourself.

 

I will be at or around the booth most of the day and we will have special offers on a selection of our DVDs which you can of course get signed right on the spot. So make sure to check us out at Focus on imaging.home-logo1-on

The Saturday after Focus on Imaging I will be in London for the London Photographic meetup group and do a longer seminar session, check out this blogpost I made about it a while ago.

 

I hope to see some of you during this week and if you’re not at the shows maybe we have some time in between for some guided sightseeing 🙂

Minolta 35-200 mini review

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Today I take a look at the second lens in my “vintage/older” lenses series.
The Minolta 35-200 F4.5-F5.6.

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Lens : Minolta 35-200mm F4.5 – F5.6
Year : app 1990’s
Price paid : 55.00 EURO
Place bought : Marktplaats/Ebay

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Minolta 135 f2.8 mini review

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In my ongoing series on vintage/older lenses today I’m looking at the Minolta 135mm f2.8.

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The love for the old or not….

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As you probably already know I recently switched from my beloved Canon setup to the Sony A99.
Some people did not get the idea behind this, but let me put it this way… I’m very picky when it comes to dynamic range, color and image quality and when I compared the A99 to the Canon 5DMKIII I could not really think off any reason not to make the switch, now I have to be honest buying all my lenses again is an idea that I did not like and also an idea that scared the heck out of me for the simple reason that I did not know anything about the quality of Minolta glass etc. And this triggered a journey that I will try to show you on the blog and give you some tips and buying advise as we go along.

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Old/vintage love
Maybe you already heard/read about it online but there are a lot of people loving old lenses, and according to many the quality is just as good (or better) than the modern lenses. Now this is something that always had me puzzled, of course I know that glass can be incredibly good, I have the experience first hand when I work with the Mamiya RZ67ProII, the lenses for that camera are awesome and beat everything that it on the market now in my opinion, however…. AF has had an incredible boost in recent years so do realize it will always be a tradeoff, on the other hand when we look at pricing this could be something you could life with every easily.

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