It took nearly twenty years. Lots of purchaces; some correct choices, some total mistakes. Some were pure camerabags, some pure outdoor backpacks with inserts. Twenty years, what? To find a excellent all-rounder for daytime or over-night multipurpose backpack. Back to the roots of my photography history when I was usually carrying camera with one lens on fishing trip or outdoor […]
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Tested: Sigma Contemporary 24/3.5, 35/2 and 65/2
Sigma released bunch of new prime lenses at the beginning of december, 2020. First batch arrived in Finland on mid-february 2021 and I got change to test out quickly all new Contemporary-serie lenses; 24/3.5, 35/2 and 65/2. Sigma states on press release that “balance between performance and size is even more crucial”. Yes that is true. As we have used […]
Review: Irix 15mm f/2.4 Firefly
Somewhat five years ago wideangle-lens market was blooming with lots of new products especially targeted for night- and astrophotograhy. With the evolved sensor technology photographing the night sky was a new frontier for photo enthusiasts. Most of the new interesting products were launched by the other companies than Canon and Nikon. Swiss-based Irix is a fresh company on lens […]
Haida Mist Black 1/4 filter review
Most of the things can be done on post-processing for photos. Even on videos its possible to do magical tricks on material. But, creating same effects straight on camera is always much cooler! Haida introduced Mist Black-filters last year for portrait and videography. Filter promises to deliver over-all haze on scenery, pastel-toned colorscape and help out to smoohten model`s skindetails. […]
Haida Clear-night filter in use
Light pollution is a problem on night-photography, especially close to urban areas. Usually on locations where horizon is clearly visible; on seashores, open fields, etc. lights reflects to clouds, water and even on thin fog. That creates blooming effect of different kinds of color casts ruining the contrast and over all tonality. To solve this problem and ease the pain […]
Review: Haida Nanopro filter kit for DJI Mavic Air 2
DJI released another version of buzzing flying thing with a camera this April. DJI Mavic Air 2 is a clear step up from previous version – Mavic Air. Camera has changed a lot; new improved features such as 4k 60fps and 4k 30fps HDR-video. For stills drone uses 1/2 inch CMOS-sensor either 12Mpix or 48Mpix with fixed aperture of […]
HP zBook X2 G4 – Professional hybrid workstation
Professional laptop market has evolved. Since Microsoft launced their Microsoft Surface many mobile device manufacturers have released their vision of how the professional mobile workstation should look in future. Late on spring I was asked if I was interested to test out and review HP`s latest version of ZBook X2 G4. Quick look at the specs got me interested ! […]
Current gear – Switchover to Sony!
From time to time I got inquiries about my photogear. Just to sum up, here is a short list of my main gear. I do not carry all of these with me everytime; for different scenarios I just pick up suitable lenssets for different scenarios. Nightphotography-set contains couple of fixed lenses with body and ballhead with larger knobs. Second set […]
Review: Haida M10 Filterholder
In january Haida released totally renewed filterholder, M10. New product is packed with full of new features. Adapter ring All new design includes new adapters rings bringing the whole system closer to lens thus eliminating vignetting and provding sturdy mountpoint for filter holder. Filter holder M10 Filter holder itself has been redesigned from scratch. New construction is lightweight but still […]
Review: HP z32 display
4k-displays are becoming a common, mainstream display on a larger size. I have been using 27″ displays for years but they were all QHD (2560×1440). My opinion was that 27 inch is too small for 4k. You can always scale fonts up but then you loose the extra resolution and space. Pickup a 32″ model and you dont need font- […]