As part of my photography business, I never sold an image straight out of the camera.. As good as a photo can be, and also because of the file format (RAW most of the time) I have to, in someway, edit the image to bring in my personal touch and style and make it printable as in JPEG or whatever readable file format for a printer or the software to print them.

Recently, I added an Olympus OM-D E5 Micro 4/3 in my kit as part of a ‘carry-everywhere’ camera and I must admit that I love it more and more.

Not only this little camera delivers outstanding images, I can now, via very affordable adapters, use my long time loved Canon and Nikon lenses but also and especially my Leica M lenses.

For this series, more of a personal project than a commercial one, I switched the camera to only shoot JPEG and the images will be posted here as captured, with no additional filters or correction via software.

I will try to post more regularly images taken from the OM-D with ‘adapted’ lenses from images straight out of the camera. As captured.

The only two manipulations, one is more dictated by the limitations of the site in terms of file size, if to reduce the image to 3700 pixels on the longest side, the second being adding a watermark on the image.

With the arrival of digital SLRs, optics have been redesigned to ‘optimise’ with digital and modern technology for lens coating have appeared on manufacturers marketing materials.

When there is no doubt that the new technologies bring better IQ to the digital world, I notice that the way people, photographers amateurs or pros, use them a very different way.

It is really ironic that Kodak ‘died’ because of their old film look when Instagram got bought for about a billion $$ just because it uses filters to create old film effects …

Remember, no colour corrections, contrast modification, cropping … just as captured. Sometimes I may use built in filters for more fun..

When using adapters on the OM-D, I am only adding a mechanical connection between the non-Olympus lens and the camera without any electronics, hence there is no EXIF relating to the lens used. I will try to remember the aperture used and pout them in here when appropriate.

These are the first frames captured with the Olympus OM-D and non-Olympus lenses attached to the camera via adapters.

Let me know what you think. Click on the images to enlarge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

iPhone photo of the set up..

OM-D by AfterRAW.com

 

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