HMD Nokia 3.1, A New Night

Mobile Photography: Image making with an HMD Nokia 3.1, a new night, on a respite from the weather.

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While it could just be a respite from the weather as the monsoon is still with us, it has been a while since we had the last bright and sunny day, with clear and almost cloudless nights. Today was a nice change, bright and sunny, lovely twilight, but it seems to hold only for another day.

I was out planning for a time-lapse video shoot of the full moon, which will be in a couple of days, and decided just a well on the few shots of the twilight of a new night.

HMD Nokia 3.1

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5, A Second Look

Compact Comeback: Testing out the vintage ultra-compact 16MP CCD Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5 beyond its first outing.

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A second look at the Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5. Images were shot in Normal Picture mode from just outside the front door, transferred to my desktop image editor, and tweaked with Auto Tone Correction, Crop, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast, and Unsharp Mask.

Images are good, sharp and crisp, almost technically perfect, but is that all there is?

Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5

I have a gut feeling that there is still something I have to discover with the camera, whatever it is...

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Olympus G.Zuiko OM 35mm 1:2.8, First Impression

Cameras and Lenses: First impression images with the Olympus OM G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens, mounted on the Pen E-P5.

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My first tryout with the very compact and lightweight all-glass and metal wide-angle Olympus OM G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 (G.Zuiko OM 35mm f/2.8 for short). The lens, introduced in 1972, carries the ‘G’ designation of early OM lenses, a 7-element in 6-group construction.

The optical design designation was dropped for later versions of the lenses, with newer versions reported to have a longer body length and weighing significantly more.

The lens, considered for its high sharpness, contrast, and color rendition, is also acknowledged for its low distortion and vignetting, and handles flare well with the hood attached. It is highly recommended, among others, for landscape and architectural photography.

Olympus E-P5, G.Zuiko OM 35mm f/2.8

My test unit here, however, is not in the best of condition. It came with some dust and had a tinge of circular haze along the periphery of one of the inner elements.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5, Starting Out

Compact Comeback: A comeback look at a vintage ultra-compact 16MP CCD Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5.

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My latest acquisition is in search of an alternative to the ever-rising cost of photography, where film prices and their associated services are ever spiraling in film photography, and where digital cameras are getting very sophisticated and may be too complex to be enjoyable for simple point-and-shoot image capture.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5 is a 16MP CCD sensor ultra-compact digital camera, not much bigger than my other favorite vintage, the Nokia Asha 300, and comes with a 4x Zoom Leica DC Vario, 6 elements in 5 groups with 3 aspherical elements lens. The specs look great, the cost is about equivalent to only a couple of rolls of film, and the fun looks forthcoming.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-S5

The camera was launched in 2012 and weighs 112 grams with a battery.

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Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM, Ghostly Twilight

Cameras and Lenses: Image making with a Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM on a Canon EOS 300D, an impromptu Auto Program twilight shoot.

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Perfect shots, true colors, couldn't ask for more. Exposures were taken in Program Mode, recorded at 1/2 and 1 second for the first four images, and 1/25 second for the sky shot. in the community park just across from where I lived.

Not a planned night shot, but rather an impromptu "Program Mode" handheld twilight session. I am still all excited about having the vintage digital Canon EOS 300D, a 6.3-megapixel entry-level DSLR camera. When launched in 2002, the EOS 300D camera was the first DSLR to hit the market with a price tag of below US $1000.

My take? Find an alternative to the ever-spiraling cost of continuing the hobby, as I have been doing in the past, in film photography. Am I getting what I am looking for? I am warming up to it, and it looks like it's going to be a big Yes!

Canon EOS 300D, Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

I will have to forgo my love for film, though, and work on other challenges instead.

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