Casual Macro Outing In A Park Nearby, Again!

When my fingers get a little itchy for some shutter clicking action, and I do not intend to travel far from where I live, the easiest solution to satisfy that itch would be to just go to a park nearby and do some insect macro hunting. The park is where I normally film my YouTube videos, and it is not a small park, with some luck and a bit of exploring around, you can find some really cool bugs to shoot. I brought the Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro lens and mounted it on OM System OM-1 camera body, together with the use of Olympus FL-50R external flashed with AK diffuser attached, I found some cool creatures within just an hour and half of shooting time! 

Translucent Green Jumping Spider

More Adventures With Lily And Olympus 50mm F2

This is a continuation from the previous post about me using an old Olympus Zuiko Digital 50mm F2 Macro lens to shoot some portraits of Lily. Previous I'd stuff as many images as I can in a single blog entry, but that made each post so over bloated, that it almost became an endless scroll to get to all the photographs. These days, I am playing smart, why not split them into multiple entries? Here I am featuring Lily in a different dress, on the same shoot/same day, and oh I forgot to mention the location was downtown Kuala Lumpur in Bukit Bintang area. Lily was so nice to work with, and man that Olympus 50mm F2 lens still produces such amazing results!

Lily Portraits With Olympus Zuiko 50mm F2

I have had the old Olympus Zuiko Digital 50mm F2 Macro lens since the Four Thirds DSLR days, but I never used it on my newer Micro Four Thirds cameras, until recently. I attached the Olympus 50mm F2 lens on my OM System OM-1 (via a 3rd party adapter) and brought this combination out to shoot some lovely portraits of my friend, Lily (click). I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the lens despite its age, it played well with the OM-1, with more than sufficiently functional autofocus, and the image rendering as expected from this legendary Olympus lens was beautiful - super sharp like a PRO grade lens with creamy smooth bokeh. Special thanks to Lily fo being such an amazing model!

OM System 50-200mm F2.8 PRO Goes To KL Bird Park

This is a follow up test to the original mini review done here (click). In this second round, I brought the OM System 50-200mm F2.8 PRO with my OM-1 to the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park and got some bird shooting action done. I emphasized on testing the image quality (both sharpness and bokeh) as well as the effectiveness of 5-Axis Sync Image Stabilization and the use of Olympus MC_14 1.4x teleconverter. I made a video for this session, you can find it here (click). 

ƒ/41/250220mmISO400   MC-14