*Lens by lens on the Sony a7II…

April 28, 2015 by tyson robichaud photography in General ramblings, Photography gear and tagged a7ii, auto focus, canon, digital, ef, fe, IV, L, lenses, macro, mark 4, metabones, portrait, rokinon, Sony, voigtlander | 30 Comments

This is purely a personal journey here. A little retrospective look back at the last couple months to see what I’ve been getting out of the new Sony a7II (Sony Alpha a7II Mirrorless Digital Camera -Body Only- at B&H HERE). I tend to spend a lot of time looking at specific things in regard to a lens or camera for the blog here, and I figured I’d compile a few shots from the combination of lenses I’ve been using. I have mostly used my Canon EF mount lenses via the Metabones adapter (review on that HERE), but have recently acquired the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 because I felt the camera deserved to also be shot with a high quality native mount lens, plus I was curious to see how it handled this new, crazy feature all the kids talk about in auto focus. Click any image below to see a larger version, and let me know your thoughts in the comments. Less talk, more rock as it were. Without further ado… Continue reading →

*Against the grain on the new Olympus 60mm f/2.8 macro lens

January 22, 2013 by tyson robichaud photography in Photography gear and tagged 1:1, 60mm, closeup, f/2.8, four thirds, lens, m zuiko, macro, micro 4/3, Olympus, omd em5, panasonic, plastic | 55 Comments

I’ve been debating a dedicated macro lens for either my full frame setup or my micro 4/3 setup for a little while now. I wanted to try out the Olympus 60mm f/2.8 dedicated macro lens as I felt the micro 4/3 system really played to its benefits with a macro setup. It really had to work to supplant the idea of acquiring the PanaLeica 45mm f/2.8 OIS Macro lens in the micro 4/3 realm, or some more illustrious full frame macro lenses for my larger system as well. Now, I may be the odd man out as every review seems to really like this lens, but I was not impressed. Read on to hear about why…

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*Published!

January 17, 2013 by tyson robichaud photography in General ramblings and tagged book, converters, corey hilz, lens, lensbaby, macro, perspective, photography, portland, published, tilt | 2 Comments

As many may know, I’ve done some testing and reviewing of and for Lensbaby in the past. They even used a shot I’d done for a 6 month run in various magazines advertising the Lensbaby’s ability to key in on a “slice of focus” which was really cool. Author Corey Hilz contacted me to gain permission to use another of my Lensbaby images in his new book “Bending Your Perspective, 2nd edition” which I happily agreed to.

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