In 2011 I uploaded some pictures to flickr.com from 2010, which I totally forgot until recently. It was when I'd started doing away with my DSLR's in favor of mirrorless camera's. The pictures were taken with the Panasonic G1, the first mirrorless I shot with, coupled with kind of an odd choice in lenses, a Canon FD 400mm f/2.8L which I imported from the US (KEH). Everything was off and odd about this combo, a very small camera behind a 6kg lens, but I took it out into the field on many occasions and despite being ridiculed by friends and other wildlife photographers out in the field alike I shot it handheld...and as I did so I sweated like a pig and slept like a baby after each session. Eventually I sold both camera and lens but sometimes I still wonder how such a lens would perform on todays mirrorless as my particular copy was really sharp wide open and I could kept on birding with it long after every other photographer gave up at the end of the day because of the little light left. It was a massive combo to handhold and to carry along but it provided for everything I wanted back then, the small but very advanced camera with its small but comprehensive EVF and the sharp light sensitive lens.
Interesting fact is that almost everyone I knew back then made fun of me for the G1, with its quirky electronic viewfinder, providing 'live view' in the viewfinder, converted to mirrorless somewhere between then and now.
The combo
One of the first images I shot with it, for testing sake
Center crop
Reed bunting (Zevenhuizerplas)
Barn swallow (Biesbosch)
Barn swallow (Biesbosch)
Thank you for reading.
Ray
p.s.
Anyone wanting to add his/her own (forgotten) adapted lenses imagery from way back then please feel free to do so :)
