So initially my title was ""That has gotta hurt!" and 14mm first day thoughts" but I changed it, hahahah.
Anyway, in case you don't know who she is, she's on Wikipedia Natalie Tran
So yea, anyway, with regards to "That has gotta hurt!", check out this vid! From Joe McNally's blog!
Yikes! Probably if he was younger, he could have dodge it but hey, at least it ain't a seriously collision, just like this morning. I was on my way to school and dropping by BBDC (Bukit Batok Driving Center. I took the train and dropped off at Bukit Gombak, and walked to BBDC, when I was at the petrol station next to BBDC, I saw a bus with some glass on the ground. I saw the bus driving and some guy who looked like they were arguing, my guess is that the pickup and the bus collided, but it didn't look serious so I guess no one was hurt.
I went into BBDC to top out my bro and my account and then bought gloves for bike lesson, which is sadly, those that is used by fruit vendors to hold durians. As so...
Sucky... But as my brother said, no need spend so much for gloves, plus the only thing I'm wearing when I ride my bike other than my helmet would be my jacket when its raining.
Moving on! Today I got the requirements for the FYP for IAD and I didn't get started on it today cause I was feeling lazy, but it should take too long if I spend most of my time a day to do it. So now I've got the requirements for my projects and I aim to finish it on time!
I took my E-P1 mounted with the Panasonic Lumix 14mm f2.5 lens and looking on my camera screen on the way to school, it was disappointing. Transferring the images to my classmate's laptop then viewed on the school's screen, made me even more disappointed. So I decided to look at the review of the lenses for the lab test. Then I got home and looked at the images. The edited images I'll show at the end of the entry. I was less disappointed though still a little after I got home and got the images onto my own computer with my own screen1.
The lens has a pretty solid design and feel to it which is good. Other good points includes the fact that the front doesn't rotate when focusing which means good news for guys who uses filters. Its compact and extremely light, I hardly felt it there.
Now... For the bad points, the first of which, again is the aperture sound when the light conditions the camera see changes, but its not present in aperture priority and I suspect in manual (not really sure since I didn't use it). Next thing is vignetting especially wide open! Which though I usually shoot around f4 to f5.6, I'd like no vignetting wide open which I might do in low light conditions. Optically, the image is sharp only in the center. The ends of the image have been compromised.
Initially I thought it was cause of the fact that the lens is new to me, but well, turns out that from test, it is the nature of this lens. But probably with more practice, I'd know how it performs. But at the moment, its not a lens I'd spend money for, I'd rather spend on the M.Zuiko Digital 9-18mm f4-5.6 lens instead. But I'd wait for Olympus new lenses to be out. I'm personally hoping for something like M.Zuiko Digital 12mm f2.8. Sorry for the slightly over aggressive post processing of my images today. Will shoot more over the weekend.
That's more or less it for the day. Let me end this entry with images using the 14mm lens. Good night world!
Waiting for the lift to arrive
On my way to the station, across my block
One of the many trees on the way to the MRT station
View from the MRT station
The Panasonic 14mm lens cap
Part of my classroom, workstation as well as my stuff on the table and my water
My Macbook close up, close focusing of 17cm, impressive actually, but the distortions keeps me from doing too much of it
With my fingers in front of the Macbook
Checkout the sharpness, can see my fingerprint, but like I said, center sharpness only, sadly
My classmate Jet
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