Olympus Photo-experience 47. 12-100 Pro Lens in Lockdown. Review of 2020.
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- My photographic review of 2020 under Lockdown and further restricted with the use of just one lens. A valuable lesson in 'Less is More'.
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @derekforss
Want the 12-100 Pro Lens? Follow this link: -
amzn.to/2GrMtA6
or the latest E-M1 camera: -
amzn.to/321Xj8g
I must say how much I enjoy your RUclips programmes. As a 'retired' pro photographer, and also an Olympus user, I find your programmes highly refreshing. The image stabilisation abilities of Olympus cameras never ceases to amaze me, and they seem to have found a way of 'shaping' noise ie even when it's present, it doesn't look as nasty as many supposedly 'superior' systems. Unfortunately, my back has taken a beating over a 45 year career, so I'm no longer able to walk as far as I used to/would like to be able to do so. Keep up the good work 🙂📷
Thank you for your comments, which is much appreciated, always good to hear. Sorry to learn that you have back problems that limit the distances you can walk. This won't help you, but I had back problems in the 1980s. I received expert help and plenty of advice on how to stand when treatment had finished including the correct way to lie in bed!
@@DerekForss many thanks for your good wishes, and words of encouragement. I spent many years photographing children and industrial subjects when I was working full-time, much of which involved working at contorted angles, which bent my muscles out of shape. I also suffered an illness six years ago that left me on crutches for over a year, which also took its toll on my already damaged body 🙂
I like how you show the work and pictures instead of talking about pixels
Thank you, this I noticed myself when researching my channel. Very often you spent ages watching someone talking technically about photography without backing up with images.
@@DerekForss thx for your work. please don't stop
Greetings from southern Indiana, USA! I always enjoy your RUclips videos, giving me examples of photos that Olympus gear is capable of taking -- in spite of covid/19! Definite encouragement!
Thank you for your comments. I am geographically restricted by Covid 19 but look forward to when I can travel again. Happy New Year.
Happy new year Derek! A newier great video! I have been impressed. Your colors and stories about the pictures. I have never been in England yet, but I like your countryside pictures. Your pictures there are like as really traditional British countryside atmosphere, what I imagine in my self.
I am pleased that you like my latest production. More next Friday, this time of Scotland. Happy New Year.
@@DerekForssI look forward very much!
I truly hope one day to participate in one of your Tours or Walks. Thank you Derek for yet another inspiring journal.
We shall have to wait until Covid 19 has gone!
Love your videos and your voice, really calming and relaxing :) thinking of getting an Olympus after watching some of your movies. Thank you, sir !
Thank you. Others have also commented on my voice, something that for many years I didn't realise it was such an asset!
Happy new year Derek, enjoy your videos very much. i have been shooting Olympus like you for a number of years. Starting off with the brilliant (in my opinion ) OM1n. I use the holding your breath technique , but i find that for me i prefer to release the shutter having breathed out. lets hope we can all get out and about a bit more this year . Keep up the great videos, stay safe. Thank you
Thank you for your comments. A friend of mine suggested pressing the shutter button between heart beats! Perhaps I should have said that with this production.
great video Derek , a bit late but a happy new year to you
Happy new year!
Hi Derek A very happy new year to you. Most importantly stay away from crowd when you are out for photo-shooting.
One question how is the failure rate from each of your photography trip?
Your spot meter photos were under-exposed before post-edit, how do you know its usable? Or did you shot a number of it at different setting and choose the right one via LR?
Stay healthy.
The answer to your question is experience. The examples shown in the programme are deliberately underexposed to avoid overexposed highlights because of the high dynamic range in each image. This is not always the case. Through experience I know where to spot-meter from with post production in mind. I agree about staying away from crowds, usually I enjoy a quiet walk in the country. Happy New Year.
@@DerekForss Thank you Derek.
Seriously considering the 12-100mm F4. I"m moved atm to go for a walk myself
It is certainly a wonderful optic.
Watching this at the end of 2022 mainly as I had picked up the lens earlier in the year and use mainly with mk3 OMD Em1 and when I get the chance to travel further afield (out of the country) I find it the ideal lens to take that and a small prime from the Olympus range.
The Zuiko 12-100 Pro Lens is my workhorse and it goes with me on my major travels. Thank you for contacting and letting me know. Happy New Year with the 12-100.
These images even though small …appear very grainy and somewhat dull?
I am sorry to hear that you found the quality of this programme unsatisfactory. However, judging by the many comments, your view doesn't appear to be shared.
I am wondering if during transmission, the strength of your wifi signal decreased without your knowledge, this can happen. When it does, RUclips will reduce the quality of transmission automatically, something I occasionally experience myself even though I have the benefit of London on my doorstep.
The 12 to 100mm len,s is the optimum len,s for OMD, however it,s £750 used, so entry level glass will have to do. Not a problem with a tripod for landscape, no desire to do interior photography, interesing you use Progam? Your the only pro ever seen useing this, stay on Aperture for landscape, Mr F11.
I have done a programme for the E-M10mkii + 14-42 Pancake Lens, much cheaper than the E-M1mkii + 12-100 Pro Lens: -ruclips.net/video/wNiNUkPSr00/видео.html
Accuse me of being lazy, but Program in lowlight will default to the widest aperture, but unlike Auto, you can tweak the other settings. I use f8 or 11 for landscapes. For reasons I cannot remember, Olympus told me that f8 was preferable.
Thank you for another smashing video, Derek! Oh, I finally got my Pen F! It is actually quite different from my EM1 MII, but I am really enjoying it so far! I am struggling a bit with setting it up, but I think this will be a very fun addition!
Sean
Pleased you like my latest show. Enjoy the PEN F. Happy New Year.
Derek love your videos, reminds me of the Planet Earth series on the Discovery channel. The videos are well done and research, would love a photo outing with you as you are a master of the camera and storytelling. I was surprised to see that you use the spot metering a lot in your photos with a minus 1/3 exposer and correct in post-processing to bring out the details in the shadows with nice results. Do you also use the camera feature of in-camera bracketing for HDR? Again I always enjoy your video always well done and a class act.
I always expose to the left to avoid blown-out highlights that are more difficult to correct in post production. Photographers with a greater knowledge talk about exposing to the right but I find that this does not work for images of high dynamic range. I am not a lover of HDR, preferring instead as I have often shown by correcting my images instead in Lightroom.
I am pleased you like my videos, you will find many more on my RUclips Homepage or my website www.derekforss.com. I believe you live in America or possibly Canada, so any meet would have to be carefully arranged when this awful pandemic is over. Happy New Year.
Another great video, Derek. What makes you decide on Program vs Aperture???? Thanks.
I start on Program when looking for images and then switch to Aperture or Shutter Priority if the light has not suddenly changed in the meantime. When inside a church, because of lowlight the camera will default to the widest aperture to avoid camera shake.
Superb Photos wonderfully composed.
Thank you. Composition is part of my soul. By that I mean, it is something that comes to me naturally, I don't have to stop and think about what I am doing. I rely on a gut reaction. Best wishes.
I enjoy your photos and the way you speak about them. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
2020 was indeed grim, and we can't get any rebate on our railcards despite being ordered to stay at home for so many months. Lincoln Cathedral is on my list of places to visit one day, if we are ever allowed to travel freely in England again.
I have allowed my railcard to lapse as I cannot travel. I produced a separate programme about Lincoln that might interest you. Here is the link: -
ruclips.net/video/AQZHhdsgYYU/видео.html
@@DerekForss I renewed mine at the start of January 2020 in readiness to travel to "The Photography Show" at the NEC in March, I even bought my train ticket in advance for the first time ever. The show was cancelled just 5 days before it was due to open and if I wanted a refund on my ticket there was a £10 admin charge, so I went to Coventry just a couple of stops short of the NEC anyway. I've since used the railcard only once, when we were encouraged to start using the trains again, in September IIRC. Every winter, anticipation of going to TPS was one of the few things that keeps me going through the long, cold winter nights and with no prospect of conferences and exhibitions being permitted in the UK in the foreseeable future, over 9 months since they were banned (and counting), it's having a bad effect on my mental health. Would be good to join one of your tours/walks if they are ever allowed to start up again; I fear for the future though the way that the pandemic has been mis-handled so far
You were singularly unfortunate regarding your ticket to Coventry, sounds as if you purchased it from Trainline? I have used them, but prefer dealing direct with the rail company. I had tickets from South Western Railway that I could not use, but they offered a complete refund. It might seem like rubbing 'salt into the wound' but my railcard was paid for by a client in order to do a job!
My saviour has been RUclips. I have used them since 2013 but now my programmes are earning a modest income that can only increase. As I too cannot travel to take photographs I have found it important to have a project for my library shots and I see myself able to publish a new video every Friday. Currently I am sorting out some images of the Yorkshire Dales for a new 'Virtual Tour' series of which the first about Scotland will be released next Friday.
Recently I have received several requests for one-to-one shoots. Therefore may I direct you to my website, the Tuition page where my terms are set out. www.derekforss.com.
All good wishes.
@@DerekForss Thank you for your kind wishes, Sir. The "problem" was that when TPS was cancelled, there was no lockdown and we were free to travel when and where we wanted... hence I was not entitled to a full refund just because the event I booked to go to was cancelled. The on-line TPS held in September just wasn't the same, there's nothing like seeing and handling products that you are interested in buying, and the opportunities to do that have decreased significantly over the years anyway as camera shops have closed down. There used to be 3 shops in my town centre where you could try cameras out, and if you then include Argos, 4 where you could buy. Now we are down to just an Argos collection point in the town centre Sainsburys. Such is "progress" :-(
Nice one, as usual, Mr Derek..can I ask a question? I have a 12 - 200 and on a matter regarding quality of image and sharpness against the 12 - 100 what would your comment be on the difference please. I know that you're not a PP so just you impression. Thanks hopefully.
I have never done a side-by-side comparison, but Olympus loaned the 12-200 lens which I used for a month. A RUclips video was the result and here is the link: -ruclips.net/video/khDuSa3D_Q8/видео.html
There are two main differences that should be considered (1) the extra telephoto and (2), it is a variable aperture lens. The images taken with that lens have been merged with my normal publishing work without difficulties.
@@DerekForss Thank you, have seen that video, it was purely sharpness of image and I wondered if you had noticed any benefit in this area for the 12 100. It was a while ago, your 12 200 video so thanks anyway for replying.