Lympa_2006_04

With this much gear attached to an E-330, it looks more like a long-range sniper weapon than something that can shoot objects just a couple inches away.

I used the optical viewfinder because of outdoor glare on the LCD, focused with the lens wide open, then stopped down and let the Aperture Priority mode choose the shutter speed. A review of the histogram called for a slight exposure override (+0.3) to push the histogram a bit to the right.

Sometimes great photographic subjects are just outside your door.

Morning Cherry Tree Blossoms

Leica 100mm f4 Macro Elmarit, Bellows R, 1/25th, f11, ISO100, +0.3EV,

Optical VF, Aperture Priority, RAW capture, VIVID setting, Adobe RGB,

Anti-Shock (mirror lockup) set to five seconds.

Blooms just keep bursting on the flowering cherry tree, more than ever. A really wet spring seems to produce a lot of buds and an extended time for blossoms. The 7-14mm zoom lens is quite a tool to learn, so here was a close-to-home opportunity to play with it in a decidedly "non-macro" kind of photograph:

Edge blur effects are often done by zooming a telephoto during exposure. With so much depth of field provided by the super-wide Olympus zoom, I tried moving the camera instead. One or two out of twenty attempts had enough central sharpness to be interesting.

Olympus E-330, 7-14mm at 12mm 1/6th, f16 , ISO100, Aperture Priority, Vivid, RAW capture.

Finding the mirror lockup on the E-330 for macro photography is a bit of a challenge. You might think "Anti-Shock" is something to do before packaging the camera for shipment. Or maybe it's how Japanese for "mirror lockup" translates. In any case, you can find Anti-Shock under the second Camera menu, which worked for macro photography at blossom blooming speeds, but is not an adequate implementation of mirror-lockup, as I discuss on the next web log page.

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