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…A new piece of gear, the Pentax FA43mm F1.9 Limited lens. I’ve been gravitating towards Pentax lenses with aperture rings lately, so that I can control the aperture when shooting video with my Panasonic GH2. I have a Pentax K-Micro Four-Thirds adapter with an aperture ring, but it’s never instilled confidence in its construction, and…

FYI, I started a group on Google + where it’s all about the photos – Photo Critique. No gear discussion is allowed and we operate by one simple rule – we ask that everyone that posts a photo give back to the community by critiquing another photo in the group. That’s it. We of course expect civil…

FYI, I started a group on Google + where it’s all about the photos – Photo Critique. No gear discussion is allowed and we operate by one simple rule – we ask that everyone that posts a photo give back to the community by critiquing another photo in the group. That’s it. We of course expect civil…

There are those days where most of it is spent doing what you must do, not what you want to do. The stuff that pays the mortgage and keeps the client/boss/higher-up/whomever happy, but otherwise feels like a prison, no matter how gilded they may be. Ain’t adulthood grand? I just had one of those days,…

There are those days where most of it is spent doing what you must do, not what you want to do. The stuff that pays the mortgage and keeps the client/boss/higher-up/whomever happy, but otherwise feels like a prison, no matter how gilded they may be. Ain’t adulthood grand? I just had one of those days,…

Nikon V1 with 18.5mm f/1.8 @ 1/60s, f/1.8, ISO400 A new restaurant, Yamataka Tea Room, opened in town, in one of those spaces that never seems to flourish; every town has a space like it. We went there to try their tea as well as some dumplings and buns. The owners speak with the thick Chinese…

Nikon V1 with 18.5mm f/1.8 @ 1/60s, f/1.8, ISO400 A new restaurant, Yamataka Tea Room, opened in town, in one of those spaces that never seems to flourish; every town has a space like it. We went there to try their tea as well as some dumplings and buns. The owners speak with the thick Chinese…

We interrupt all of this testing and opining to bring you this, a photo of cats.

We interrupt all of this testing and opining to bring you this, a photo of cats.

In two previous posts (“The Case Against Full Frame” and “The Case Against APS-C”) I opined on why the leading professional and amateur sensor sizes are doomed to the scrapheap of history. Where does that leave the upstart Micro Four-Thirds?By all accounts, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 is a watershed mark in the development of Micro…