No sharpness tests, pixel counting or other technical mumbo jumbo, just everyday pictures with the intention of showing the view angle, color pattern and character, and my thoughts of the lens. A lens review as I did when I first started with OSP,except for a few extra words about the camera used and the special... Continue Reading →

Back to Normal or rather, change and finding a new Normal.In more ways than you might think,read more about this here. Recipe Mania This time, a one page XL Recipe Update My Camera Gear in 2022 What has changed ? Click here for my article. The Olympus OMD EM10 Mark II A great and cheap... Continue Reading →

It's been a while since I've created a new Lut, and to be honest my interest in new Luts had faded a bit too. I started making them all primarily for myself, for use in RawTherapee, and with Darktable also used as an editor, and making videos in ShotCut, 3DLut's or Cube files also have... Continue Reading →

Well, the last two years have been a real rollercoaster.We were stuck with Covid 19 for two years.And to be honest, we're still far from getting rid of Covid I think.Also striking for me was the more obvious presence of the climate changes, something we urgently need to do something about.And then suddenly there was... Continue Reading →

IntroA specialized camera systemHow many Cameras do you need How many Megapixels do you realy needMy Fujifilm GearMy Olympus GearEDC - Every Day CameraBushcraft or Adventure Camera Bags and CasesTri-PodsFinal Word Intro Personal gear talks,one likes it, others don't.I myself like to read what other photographers use and for what,it's that way I ended up... Continue Reading →

The concept of a camera to which you can apply a certain recipe is amazing,the original Fujifilm recipes such as Provia, Velvia etc. are certainly one of the reasons why Fujifilm cameras have become so popular.But, even with the many possibilities that the latest Fujifilm cameras have, creating a film effect remains limited - or... Continue Reading →

Another new magazine,I hope you like it.To start, a new recipe update - what else :-)"The Big Negative - "I can't BELIEVE this is not Film!" Fujifilm Recipe"A very promising title, but is it?And as a bonus, on the same page there is another recipe from the same maker - "The Big Negative - My... Continue Reading →

Merry Christmas First off, I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas ! maybe not under optimal circumstances for everyone, but we can only make the best of it, and in the end it's the people closest to us that matter the most.Meanwhile, the clock ticks away the minutes, and a new year... Continue Reading →

Yesterday I published my 100th post.I started this new blog a little about a year ago,it was in may 2020.In the beginning there were not many visitors,in the first month about 6, to about 15 in August.Then from September it suddenly went up to 50, and just about three times that number in October, after... Continue Reading →

Hey,I had to reblog this article.It concerns a Recipe, more specifically a Recipe for X-Trans I.The range of Recipes for Fujifilm cameras is huge, but always more for the newer sensors, and owners of older Fujifilm cameras are usually left out in the cold.That's why I'm doing this reblog here, because Ritchie Roesch is already... Continue Reading →

Boletus Reticulatus — La Gallerie I was very surprised today when I came across this one during a walk with one of our dogs.Apparently they can be found between May and October, but I had never seen them in July. with us they are called "eekhoorntjesbrood", which freely translated is "squirrel bread", but a more... Continue Reading →

Sunday today, after a long period of time and mostly at home except for work, we went outside for a walk, to a place not far from our home where bluebells grow in the forest. Hyacinthoides non-scripta, in Belgium we say "forest hyacinths" or "boshyacinten" in Dutch.This tiny flower has the well-known reputation of luring... Continue Reading →