Olympus ZD 150mm f2 Blog

Acrobatic trick with fire stick

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:40:00 PST

This chap was standing on his single stick erecting on the ground. The trick does look impressive in the middle of federation square

You can see the ripple of hot air caused by the hot air.

Festive spirit

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:13:00 PST

Window display usually causes significant reflections despite the use of polariser. However, I add a gradient of black graduated filter and it did not turn out too bad instead.

The commonest problem of taking images in window display is the flare control and unsharp appearance. This lens makes the photo opportunity an exception!

Merry Christmas!

Clay man

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:25:00 PST

I have recently acquired E620 for better consistent autofocus. Back to shooting with this wonderful lens again.

The bokeh and the rich colour are really the signature of olympus 150mm f2!

Wild flower

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:11:00 PST

Kind of running out of ideas to shoot with olympus gear as I am selling a lot of olympus four thirds over the past few months. Therefore shooting a lot less with this lens. Sometimes I wish olympus could produce a sensor that is very usable at high iso with faster autofocus speed for this particular gem.

Though image quality is good as the images from this lens are usually sharp with beautiful bokeh. But the autofocus speed makes it more difficult to use (I do use manual focus telephoto primes with f2 or f2.8).

So an ordinary shot from a mundane walk the other day!

Mushroom

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:15:00 PST

Ever since I got E620 body, the autofocus is faster and more accurate. Even in this dark setting, the image turns out rather pleasantly.

I found out that this lens does render foreground bokeh nicely.

Wine bottle

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:00 PST

I had a stroll in the victoria market. There are a lot of people haggling the prices of various items. I spotted this opportunity to get the bokeh happening. My intention is to check for bokeh performance in shadow areas.

Not too bad at all. However, the distance between the bottle and the backdrop is probably too far to make an assessment of the bokeh rendering property.

Sunset view

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:34:00 PST

Telephoto range lens can created a good crop of a nice scenery where wide angle would have minimised the impact of scenery

Summer Beach Fun

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:17:00 PDT

Long time since I have used this lens. Again, E620 does allow me to utilise this len with better autofocus capability.

The bokeh is surprisingly good under such intense sun light.

I will be shooting a lot more with lens again :)

Rosella - the colourful bird in a arid land

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:57:00 PDT

Rosella population is on the decline in Australia due to severe drought and reduced vegetation. Though this lens does have slow autofocus speed, the dehydration probably makes these birds less agile ... :)

Jetty at Lorne

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:22:00 PDT

This is an image snapped with f2! Sharp from corner to corner. Yet the blue turns out soooo glistening beautiful in deed.

The trip to the region was manifested with drizzling rain and mulitple motor vehicle accidents.

Street Candid by Olympus ZD 150mm f2

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:47:00 PDT

A street performer that shows her attitude

This lens really get that interesting look.

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Cordion Player

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:46:00 PDT

Among all my gears, Olympus gear is the one I simplify the most. My E520 camera body suffers some malfunction that I could not utilise this lens that much these days. I am in the process of looking for an E620 or E30 to use. However, the pricing is rather scary.

This chap is a very nice guy, playing the whole afternoon while I was dining my seafood risotto!

Shoes hanged

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:13:00 PDT

The shoes are hanged around the alleys of Melbourne. Something to look forward to everytime I visit the city.

It is reported that the shoes mark the spot for drug dealing

Snow River National Park

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:07:00 PDT

This is an image opposite to the cliff face I was standing on. The lighting condition was poor but I like the texture of the rock surface there and the colour from the grass.

What I am amazed with is the reproduction of the colour through white haze! This lens really shows me the strength in the area of vibrant colour rendering...

Turtle pops out its head

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:48:00 PST

Grampians near Lake Gada. This thing is stunned by my presence, stopping its movement in the drizzle.

Water Skating

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:07:00 PST

Another capture frozen in mid air!

Reeds

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:57:00 PST

The rain was pouring. It was very overcast. The water surfaced up from the dried up lake. A sad look. Desolate and sad.

Thanks to the eratic exposure, the place looks alive!

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noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:31:00 PST

This was a view spotted from walking along Welling Parade in Melbourne.

Nice green colour and the lens copes with metallic highlights pretty well!

Dancing psychotic man

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:50:00 PST

This korean man is dressing up for a cause. A good cause but I never know what it is!

He has been doing the basking for about a year or so. Always dancing around violently shaking all joints. A little disturbing. Yes. Everyone stares at him.

In this shot, his whole body vibrates. Only f2 manages to get his face sharp. The rest of the image is suffering motion blurs.

So you get the juice that this man is a little more than weird...

Wakeboarding flight

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:14:00 PST

I have to confess that I have not used this lens for quite some time. Surprisingly, this lens works nicely when I decide to take a walk on Dockland, Melbourne. The wake boarding contestants are skating with lightening speed. Comparing to my friend, Joel's Nikon D90, I failed to capture as many as he could have.

However, I did get lucky with a few. Here is one of them. Nice and crisp for a change!

Acrobatic Swing

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:18:00 PST

On a sunny day, blown highlight is really a problem on E520. However, the photograph does turn out reasonable converting to B+W

The whole torso was captured frozen in the air.

Little River Falls at Snow River National Park

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:05:00 PST

This lens has been "misused" to take a long exposure shot on a tripod. Hehe. This would make a lot of Olympus user hating my guts for using a fast glass on a long exposure shot.

To be honest, I hiked a long long distance to reach this Australian Version of "Grand Canyon". The waterfalls dissappears in Summer time as the water flow ceases in the creek.

However, the shot was taken at the end of winter wet months. I had the luck to capture this in sight!

Again, long exposure time on ZD 150mm f2 would require 2 stop underexposure to avoid complete white out of the water flow. No neutral density is used as I could not really afford 82mm filter just for this purpose...

Protest for poverty

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:10:00 PST

This gentleman spoke of good English and protested against the poverty which was so prevalent around the world.

Somehow he was escorted by policemen to one side eventually. He was a peaceful man and showing very nice attitude towards photographer!

You can see his facial details very clear here with good tone rendering there. I find ZD 150mm f2 great for B+W photographs. Very punchy B+W stuff when the coloured version seems a little too muted colour.

Roos in Country Victoria of Australia

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:00 PST

In Hall's Gap, there were quite a few of them staring at us. Joel and I had picked one of the worst weathers in the whole year to do this trip.
This fellow has a lot of fascination towards us. Not begging for food. Just constantly hopping around in a circle and turning its head towards us.
The rain was easing to a degree and I took this baby lens of mine to snap a shot or two on this wild animal. On Olympus E520 body, the autofocus is continuously hunting with inability to lock the focus due to so many annoying branches and leaves. In the end, I settle on pressing the pre-focus buttons on the Oly 150mm f2 to get my focus right. Sigh... Modern technology is sometimes not as good as manual focus at all.
That evening, we had kangaroo meat for dinner. Low fat and low cholesterol. A little too gamy due to lack of seasoning...

Galah - naughty little thing

noreply@blogger.com (roentarre) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:23:00 PST

This fellow has been tailgating me for quite some time. I got no food but malice towards birds that constantly tried to drop pooh on me. In my culture, it is considered good luck when I am in good mood; not so good luck when I am in bad mood. So this bird is not really welcome today.

As soon as My olympus 150mm f2 is taken out of the bag and this bird seemed a little frightened that this was not food! I wished this lens was a rocket launcher to shoot the bird. Somehow, Olympus 150mm f2 locks its focus on the bird reasonably well. A little slow to track this bird though and I pressed the pre-focusing stopper button to lock the focus. So here it is. A mug shot of this criminal that contributed to negative symptoms of bi-polar traits.

The blurr was not so bad either. Trust me, I am not really a birder person.