Joel, the shots are very nice dispite of the poor lighting condition, I like
the B/W orchid.
OM180/2.8 has very long close focus distance, I use a 43mm extension tube (a
Sigma 2x with lens element removed) for closeup and tripod is required with
this combination.
C.H.Ling
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From: "DZDub" <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx>
> It would be my fate to go to a flower show the day after C.H. Ling posted
> his yearly quotient of pretty dumplings. This was my second annual trip
> to
> the Quad Cities' Wallace Garden Center Orchid Show 2013:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
>
> C & C gratefully accepted.
>
> The results this year were a bit disappointing on a variety of levels.
> Last year, not knowing what we would find but wanting to travel light, I
> took the E-410 and kit lenses. I ended up using the DZ 45-150 for nearly
> all of the shots. Aside from some strident bokeh, I was really pleased
> with that combination, the light, the color temperature, and the subjects
> themselves. This year was quite different. I thought I would better last
> year by taking E-620 and DZ 50-200. As it turned out, the much lighter
> 45-150 just gave me fewer problems hand-holding. Even with the 620's IS,
> I
> felt higher ISOs gave me better results. The light was very even
> greenhouse light, but the overall conditions outside were muted because of
> cloud cover. So I was shooting at 1600 most of the time and getting some
> underexposure. The results were very usable but often quite noisy. I
> don't
> object to some noise, but I did some noise reduction on almost every shot.
>
> If you want to compare to last year, check it out in my Archives at the
> link above.
>
> I grow tedious, I know, but even the flowers were a bit off this year. I
> noted in some of my photos (not those shown here) that the flowers were
> starting to fade and wither!
>
> So this may be good news to all but the 2 or 3 of us that like flowers --
> there aren't a lot of flowers to look at.
>
> Still, I had fun. I should either have taken a monopod or the E-410 and
> DZ
> 45-150. I made a mental note to try Ling's favorite, Z 180/2.8, on my
> OM-5D. That is likely to require the 7 and 14mm tubes, however, and that
> would be a pain, but maybe some pretty Chinese ladies might appear out of
> nowhere.
>
> Joel (I can dream) W.
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