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Photographing The Retrievers in Concert at the Horseshoe Tavern

02/06/2015 By Heather 5 Comments

The Horseshoe Tavern, also known as The Horseshoe or simply The ‘Shoe to locals, is a legendary concert venue in the heart of Toronto where artists as illustrious as the Rolling Stones and the Police have played, and Canadian musicians such as Bryan Adams, Our Lady Peace and the Tragically Hip got their start. In business for over sixty years, it is a pillar in Canadian music history.

FujiTuesday and Hands-on with the Fujifilm X-T10, 16mm f/1.4 and 90mm f/2

27/05/2015 By Heather Leave a Comment

Those who have been following MirrorLessons from the beginning may recall an article we posted in 2013 about the Fuji X Series Club Italia, a Facebook group started by Marco Bozzato that has grown to over 5000 members since its inception. In the article, we spoke about how the group has transformed from a small handful of enthusiasts to a large group of friends who regularly meet up in various towns across Italy to shoot together, eat together and of course, and discuss Fujifilm cameras.

Wide butterflies – An Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 and 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye gallery

25/05/2015 By Mathieu 8 Comments

Usually when you put insects and photography together, the first piece of equipment that comes to mind is a macro lens. I admit that macro isn’t my favourite genre, but Heather is a great fan of macro butterfly photography and often uses the M.Zuiko 60mm. However when we stopped at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory (Ontario, Canada), we challenged ourselves to use only the two new Olympus extreme wide angles lenses: the 7-14mm f/2.8 and the 8mm Fisheye f/1.8.

From Tywyn to London, part II: Olympus 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye image samples

12/05/2015 By Mathieu 15 Comments

Update: check out our full review of the Olympus 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye!

The 8mm f1.8 Fisheye was the second lens announced by Olympus today. As with the 7-14mm, we received it just before heading to London for our third photo walk. As coincidence would have it, Heather’s father and his Welsh male voice choir were singing at the Royal Albert Hall on the very same day, so we had a lovely ride on the bus down to London with him and the other members of the Côr Meibion Bro Dysynni. During the 7-hour journey through the UK countryside, we tried to take as many pictures as possible with the lens.

From Tywyn to London, part I: Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 image samples

12/05/2015 By Mathieu 4 Comments

Update: check out the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 complete review here!

Today Olympus announced two extreme wide angle lenses for the Micro Four Thirds system: the 7-14mm f/2.8 and the 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye. We received these two new lenses a few days before travelling to London for the LNDWLK 3.0 event, and with our preparations for our trip to Canada in the mix, we decided to postpone our review for a couple of weeks so that we can have more time to try them in-depth. Of course we didn’t want to let our readers down, so we took as many sample images as possible over the past three days and have shared them here for you to see.
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