Hannah @ 20mm f1.7

A wrap up of several hundred pictures taken over the long weekend. These ones here were all on the Lumix 20mm f1.7. This prime lens remains fixed on my E-PL2 pretty much all the time, though now that I’ve used this lens for about 9 months now, I get much better results when in average lighting and better. I wonder if the pictures have hit the limit of what the relatively small sensors in the micro four-thirds standards can muster when in low light (the soon to be released Olympus OMD EM-5 supposedly improves on this though).

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Sony NEX 7, the Fujifilm X100 and X-Pro 1, but I’ve got issues with all three of them of one or another; horrendous pricing (X-Pro 1), not the focal length I most shoot at (X100), and lack of affordable fast primes (NEX 7). The funniest thing though is that Ling has already given me the ‘blessing’ to get the X100 after I took some lovely pictures of Hannah a few months ago using a loaned unit from my student. More on that in another post Iater.

In the mean time…

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ISO640, f1.7, 1/500s at Hougang Mall’s Fairprice. Weird that the camera chose a higher ISO but faster shutter speed. That hoodie she’s wearing is cute, especially with the hood up.
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ISO200, f2, 1/90s and at home with the early morning sun reaching through the living room windows.
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ISO200, f2.8, 1/90s at Seletar Kopitiam @ Greenwich. The latter’s apparently inspired by Holland Village, and has become one of our favorite brunch places. Parking is limited and pretty expensive though.
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ISO1600, f2.8, 1/45s. She’s got a new habit now – having her weekend afternoon naps on our bed. Ling was afraid that she’d roll off the bed, so we usually surround her with pillows.=)