Well, taking a picture of a camera with said camera isn't the easiest thing to do well, so forgive me for the weird look of these. They were taken through the two mirrors in my bathroom.





It is an Olympus EPL2 with a Voightlander Nokton 25 mm lens. Attached to the lens is a Genus Neutral Density Fader, which is basically an adjustable ND filter. It will step the exposure down from 1 stop to 8. It is needed to shoot at F-0.95 in broad daylight without overexposing the shot. Attached to the filter is a rubber collapsible hood for keeping the sun from creating flares on the lens.


Not my pics. I snagged them from a Google image search.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> WOW very nice setup!! If you dont mind me asking how much did the whole setup set you back?

I havent bought a camera since I dropped 3K on my Canon XL2 back in 06. I still havent heard the end of it from my wife. LOL.

The camera was $500, the lens was $1,100, the fader was $100. I also have two more lenses $300 and $600. Not including the extra batteries, memory cards, bag and misc. stuff, I guess the math says, $2,600. Much cheaper than my last kit. Just as capable as my last rig (even more so in low light and depth of field) at less than half the weight.

Very nice JJ! At the time I bought the XL2 my thinking was that the video quality was better than the picture...but in retrospec, I havent hung any videos of my kids on the walls yet. I think the next camera might very well be this set up.

Thank you for sharing this!

Nice hike JJ. We told you it was pretty country. Wait until you get away from civilization and REALLY explore the mountains.

Very nice scenery! Good pictures too but who was the funny looking guy in the pics? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

That's about half of what I paid for one of my Nikon bodies back when I was shooting sports for a living. I think you did extremely well!

I think so too. I definitely know how much the $ can add up when it comes to camera gear.

Awesome pics man.