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Lensbaby Velvet 28 is a 28mm, f/2.5 all-metal, hand-crafted art lens that captures tack-sharp detail beneath a layer of radiant glow. Velvet 28 also features exceptional 1:2 macro capabilities with a close focus distance of 2” from the front of the lens. Built with landscape, adventure, travel, and street photographers & videographers in mind, the Velvet 28 offers Lensbaby’s popular variable glow effects at a wide 28mm focal length. Lensbaby’s Velvet effect lenses add an ethereal mood to scenes. This unique, in-camera creative effect elevates imagery with depth, dimension and soulful expression. The Velvet 28’s close-focus capabilities, combined with effects varying from impressionistic at bright apertures to just a touch of velvety smoothness at darker apertures, provides a set of visual tools that will help creative shooters expand their vision of the world. One of Velvet 28’s key features is its 1:2 macro capability. It is an ideal in-camera effects lens for photographers & videographers who like to shoot wide, while also offering the versatility to capture closer details. The lens allows image makers to move seamlessly from shooting street scenes or capturing landscape, adventure & travel images to capturing details such as a subject’s clothing or wildflower blooms and butterflies in an alpine meadow.

Features

• 28mm Focal Length
• 1:2 Macro Magnification Ratio
• Aperture Range: f/25 – f/22
• 67mm Filter Threads
• Manual Focus

Olympus Tethered Shooting – Olympus Capture

How To Freeze Motion When Photographing Moving Subjects (Explora).
We Hope Sigma Is Making More F1.8 Zooms for APS-C and M4/3 (ThePhoBlographer).
Lume Cube 2.0 review at Dpreview.
How to Survive the Coronavirus as a Photographer/Videographer! (TheSLantedLens).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

It’s now two years that Panasonic expanded their camera business by joining the L-mount alliance. Many questioned if this would be the end of their MFT commitment, or if their L-mount adventure would fail.

And for the first time we got a real answer about the L-mount alliance is working out. The french magazine Phototrend interviewed Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki and he said:

In terms of market share, Sigma is not satisfied by the L-Mount Alliance. But according to Kazuto Yamaki it is still too early to draw conclusions. There needs to be 3 to 4 years after the launch to assess the results L-rumors

I hope he whole L-mount alliance will make some more progress the coming years. If their project fails I am sure this would have severe consequences on Panasonic MFT commitment too.

Best M43 Ultra Wide Manual Lens? Laowa 7.5mm f2 & 9mm f2.8 – RED35 Review

Shooting RC jets with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III (Dpreview).
Breaking in the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III (Rob Trek).
How to Choose a Lens for Landscape Photography (Explora).

Matt:

Just thought I would point out a video that I made in Costa Rica, which shows the use of Flash in Wildlife photography. I’m a user of the OM-D system from Olympus, so it seems to be quite relevant for your readers. If that doesn’t suit, then I have a video on packing for a photo safari in Africa, again – using Micro Four Thirds equipment.
Costa Rica – Flash for Wildlife Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_kTNPA_W4
Packing for Africa Photo Safari http://youtube.com/watch?v=qB7d9XijBuI

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.