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Tired straightening this one. It didn't work.

Seems just about everybody who's fired a shot from a lo-fi camera (usually a Holga) has done the chair-o-plane upskirt shot.

At least mine isn't cross-processed.

Gave the 8mm f/1.3 its first decent night run this evening. Thinking a lens hood might be a good idea.

Film again.

It's a fine line between plane window cliché and "street photography" cliché.

Was at The Digital Show at the Exhibition Centre this morning and got to play (very briefly) with the new Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8.

Only had time to fire off a few shots, and I'm not the best person to attempt anything like a review, mainly because it's the first time I've used an auto lens on the E-PM1. Yeah, I've only used adapted/converted manual lenses prior to today, so I can't tell you how the focusing, handling etc compare to other M4/3 lenses.

And because my usual aperture technique is "turn all the way to the left for wide open", I didn't even think to check the aperture. Which means the camera decided to go with f/3.5 (probably remembered this from the time I briefly mounted the kit lens) and ISO 1600. Would've been nice to get a shot at f/1.8. Still, the bokker looks nice and circular a couple of stops down.

The lens itself feels fairly solid and weighty, and the autofocus seemed quick and silent enough to me. It'd be a good unobtrusive lens for picking portraits out of crowds. Shame the asking price is way beyond what I'd be willing to pay for an M4/3 lens though, especially since I've got a good manual 85mm f/1.4.

(No messing with the image here for a change - apart from the standard blur-resize-sharpen, this is what came out of the camera. Natural picture mode, stabilisation off, auto WB. Converted in Olympus Viewer with no settings changes.)