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Thanks Leo, glad you like it. It looks great as a print.

Thanks Len, I've tried different cameras over the years for things that the Hasselblad can't do well or when I want lightness. I had a Pentax 645, a Sony A900 and now an olympus OM D. It is a delight to use, and the images are excellent. It is a bit bizarre to have a camera where people call a $1K lense expensive though, but even that looks like it may change as both Zeiss and Schneider are starting to make M43 lenses.

Thanks Karl, it's still looking good. I need to make some prints but the smoothness is certainly there. So far, so good.

Peter, with it that dark, confusion is easy. Living where I do on the East coast, Earth shadow is what I get to shoot for sunsets.

Steve, it is heavier than normal for me, and I wouldn't have done it intentionally. I hate those awful, deep blacky blue sots from too much filtration but I thought that this was a little better than that.

Thanks Xavier and Peter. This is the Earth shadow after sunset, and a bit of a stuffup combined. I was using a new Lee RF75 system and had found the ND grad on the sand. I had no idea what I had done so I left it in the holder. Shooting at base ISO of 200 on lenses that go funny after f/8 makes quiet a change after a Hasselblad. This has a 3 stop ND and a 3 stop hard grad. I lightened the sky in LR and like the result.

Still coming to grips with the OM D, your comments are most welcome,

thanks.

Steve, I think that Bela is right. This needs a bit more work to bring out the boat and fisherman. How did this look in colour?

Karl, let me know when you have the bridge built. I'd like to watch the show.

Karl, this really combine the best of the previous two for me. Are you happy with it now?

So far, it's surprisingly good. I hope to get a lot of time this week. It obviously won't resolve like a Hasselblad but I've bought the best lenses and it looks very promising. I'm hoping that an A2 print will be good. That's the big test for me. 

It's so different and so light. I'm still getting things sorted but it's looking very good. 

Thanks Steve. It didn't last long but it was beautiful while it did. 

Thanks Steve. You description s spot on but mainly it's a bit over. I was wrestling with a new camera but liked wht I got

Just another experiment with my OM D. Your comments are most

welcome, thanks.

First outing with the OM D, please view large. Your comments are most

welcome, thanks.

Larry, I'm sure that I remember this location. There are quite a few like it in NZ. You've captured it well, a typical West coast view.

Peter, thanks, I hadn't seen that one. There have been a few of the aerials with faces in them.Here's another: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15504712

I know that Iceland is an amazing place but this is quite unusual.

Thanks Larry, that was an expensive comment. I've just been off and bought a book on Amazon.

Thanks for the feedback. Here's the colour version: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14047392

I have reworked this quite a bit since the original post. 

Thanks Bachir. Here's the colour version: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14041952

That's a big improvement, Karl. That crop works much better.

Thanks Peter. I think that the beach has become too famous. I can't even go there during the week now and get it to myself. I do think that what I do there is unique. I see lots of over-saturated, heavy colour shots there but few that show any subtlety. 

Peter I like the cropped version. The lightening works very well too.

Thanks for the feedback, folks. It's always appreciated.