After using point-and-shoot film cameras mostly for vacation I finally switched to my first SLR: Minolta SRT-101 which I used the first time already "on site" photographing the latest cars at the IAA in Frankfurt 1995.
Later on the first digital camera was a Canon S30 with 3 Megapixels and a nice amount of manual controls.
In 2005 I stepped up to DSLR, the Canon EOS 350D with which I really startet shooting different topics like events, models, cities, landscapes.
Aquiring the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II in 2008 it provided the possibility of shooting video shorts additionally to the pictures in high quality. Using the same lenses as with the 350D, the lenses quite changed their behaviour with the more-demanding 5d2. The final output looks closer to the old analogue SLR. Also more photography topics were covered: wedding, travel and with the underwater housing for Ixus 700 first steps of underwater photography.
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Portfolio
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More pictures were uploaded to Picasa and Flickr.
Videos were uploaded to Vimeo.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II since 2008
Canon EOS 350D since 2005
Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II:
Canon EF 70-200mm 1:2.8L IS USM:
Canon Powershot S30
Pusteblume with a little spider on the left bottom corner - shot in May 2003current Equipment (2011)
DSLR equipment
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon EOS 350D
- EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 II
- EF 24-70mm 1:2.8L USM
- EF 50mm 1:1.8 II
- EF 70-200mm 1:2.8L IS USM
- Lensbaby Composer
- Speedlite 430 EX
- Battery Grip BG-E3
- multiple filters (UV, polarization)
- multiple CF cards
underwater photography
- Canon Ixus 700
- Canon WP-DC70
Accessoires
- Sun-Bounce Micro-Mini Reflektor
- Sennheiser MKE 400 Video Mini-Richtrohrmikrofon
- Manfrotto LED-Licht ML360 Midi
- Manfrotto Stativtasche gepolstert 100CM
all pictures: copyright by Oliver B. Nelson
