Lenses

Pascal Parent on August 11th, 2011

I recently acquired two new Lensbaby Optics, the Soft Focus and Sweet 35, both of which I will be reviewing, the first in this post.

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Pascal Parent on November 7th, 2010

One thing is certain, the Lensbaby is not an easy piece of equipment to use and I do not mean that in a bad way, on the contrary.

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Pascal Parent on June 29th, 2010

As a photographer I get a whole lot of questions about a whole lot of photography related things. Some are easy to answer others need to be demonstrated. This one needs to be demonstrated…
I will not go into great technical details, however understand that a zoom lens usually allows for more than one “ZOOM” factor and it has moving glass in addition to focus.

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Pascal Parent on July 11th, 2009

Photo and Film Expo is the 2nd Expo in 3 weeks at the Coca-Cola Dome north of Johannesburg which I went to, the previous one was the The Women’s Show which included a whole going green show, but more about that in another blog. Let me first say that it was not worth the R80 [...]

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Whether I like it or not, I have made a conscious educated choice the day I decided to by my 100-400mm zoom, I have made my bed and I have to live with it. But how well am I living with it? After 11 days and some 3500 photos done with my 2 lenses, the [...]

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Pascal Parent on April 29th, 2009

I finally got hold of the infamous Canon 24-70mm f/2.4 L lens, let me say that it was a mission on it’s own, there must be a serious shortage of these lenses in South Africa. Here is are first impressions.

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