Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not buy much new photo equipment these days?the stuff I have is good enough. But this week, on the suggestion of Moose on the Oly list, I picked up a 12-32mm lens for my Panasonic GF1. On an MFT camera this range is equivalent to 24?64mm, very useful in a tiny package?this may well replace the Ricoh GRII as my cycling camera (the Ricoh is still the choice when pocketability and/or high ISO capability are needed). The lens arrived on Monday, and I have been shooting with it this week to test it in various circumstances. It has been a busy week at work, so I have not had much time to go out to photograph, and had to do most of my testing at the office. This was the very first image on Monday: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CzThMJL/A Every company I have worked for since 1987, including the office where I work now, has had a ?clean desk policy?. In every place I have heartily ignored this policy, and I continue to do so. In my view, cleaning one?s desk ranks right up there with washing one?s car as a total waste of time. I then set out to look for more interesting subjects, so I prowled the floor looking for victims. Many people were at lunch but our Greek colleague Eri was at her desk: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8927XVS/A And this one of our cafeteria terrace, actually taken on Wednesday, is a good test of the distortions of the lens?not too much, albeit this is with the lens set at 17mm, so not at the extreme wide end: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t936CK6/A Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA