This year is extraordinarily severe, that is.
Pollen allergy.
If you go out on a day with high amounts of pollen, it can be terrible, so I have to work remotely as much as possible and be cautious about going out.
I saw Kawazu cherry (I think) blooming nicely at a certain place and I wanted to take a test shot of Lumix S5, but I went there quickly in a very short time while my back was down due to such circumstances. The lens I used was the 20-60mm zoom lens, which is my one and only lens at the moment.
I was just trying to get a feel for the angle of view of my first FF digital camera. As a test, the S5 50mm lens gave me a shot like this
If you shoot with an APSC Pentax K-3III at the same location, the angle of view is almost the same with a 35mm lens.
*The zoom lens cannot be fixed at exactly 35mm so it is slightly back and forth.
I know this kind of story “sensor size, angle of view, and focal length of lens” in my head. But I have an image of 50mm or 35mm angle of view that has been ingrained in my mind and body as an APSC user, so this “50mm standard angle of view” feels quite strange and unfamiliar.
By the way, what happens when you zoom out to 35m with the S5, you get a picture that looks like a wide-angle lens, hmmm.
The angle of view of the 20-60mm zoom is so easy for me to recognize In other words, it’s about the same as a 14-40mm lens on an APSC camera, so it’s a much wider zoom range than standard…I’m still not very good at wide angles.
I went back to the 50mm lens again and took this shot closer to the Kawazu Cherry Blossoms.
This is surprising. It’s a very “close-up” picture for a “standard angle of view 50mm”, isn’t it?
According to the specifications of LUMIX S20-60, it can get as close as 40cm at the telephoto end and 15cm at the wide end, and the maximum magnification is 0.43x, so it seems to be suitable for “getting close and taking a large picture” even if it is not as good as a half-macro lens.
If you can get this close and get this much blur in the background even at the halfway aperture of F5.6, it may be quite easy to use. The sharpness of the in-focus area is also good and the color reproduction of the deep pink flowers (I didn’t enhance it by developing the image) is also quite good., Although it is a dark standard zoom, it may not be to be underestimated.
So, the user has generally become an APSC brain, and the lens has yet to be explored. It will take some time before I can use the S5 and the kit zoom in a reasonable way.
I thought I would be quick to take a test shot this time, but I felt that I had a good feeling about the nearby vegetables.
But there was a nice rape blossom blooming nearby, so I decided to take a shot of it and leave. I need to use a certain amount of telephoto to use the Kawazu cherry blossoms as a backdrop, so I’ll use the K-3III I brought along for comparison and contrast.
I was naively grading myself on the basis that it was not so bad for a snapshot I took on a whim, but the white balance was somewhat different from the test shot above.
Anyway, Tokyo is finally heading toward spring. I have been converting to a multi-mount (Q, K, MFT, L) as my heart dictates, without regard to my lack of skill or financial resources. I would like to learn to use them as wisely as possible and enjoy a good season from spring to early summer.
