Gear

A page for the gear-heads.

I'm shooting with multiple camera systems. Most pictures on this website are shot with digital micro-four-thirds (MFT) mirrorless system cameras from Olympus, a legendary brand that sold its imaging division in 2021 to JIP (who rebranded it as OM SYSTEM). On these cameras I mount modern and vintage lenses, ranging from a 6.5mm fisheye to a 400mm reflex. Note: because of the smaller sensor size, the field-of-view (FOV) of lenses in the MFT system is comparable to a full frame lens with double the focal length, so a 35mm lens on MFT will give you the same FOV as a 70mm on full-frame.

For portraits, my go-to lenses are the M-Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 (a little razor sharp gem worth its weight in gold), the 35mm f/0.95 Night God (great for low-light situations) and a Meyer Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm f/2.8, a lens made in 1960, famous for its flattering renderings with soap-bubblicious bokeh.

My studio lighting kit consists mainly of Godox studio flashes, with a myriad of modifiers: shoot-through and reflective umbrellas, octaboxes, striplights, barndoors, snoots, flags, fresnels, gels... Everything as ligthweight and portable as reasonably possible.

For macro shots, I usually turn to the M-Zuiko 30mm f/3.5 and 60mm f/2.8, if needed with extension rings or bellows, and flash diffusers. Both lenses fully support Olympus' focus stacking technology, which is a great help.

For landscapes and travel, I prefer my M-Zuiko zoom lenses like the 9-18mm f/4-5.6, 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 or 14-150mm f/4-5.6. For street, I love the Laowa 17mm f/1.8, a beautiful light-weighed moderate wide angle (35mm in full frame equivalent). My every day carry (EDC) kit is an Olympus OM-D E-M5ii with either just the 14-150mm in a holster bag, or a small messenger bag with the same travel zoom plus the 35mm f/0.95 (for low light), 60mm f/2.8 (for macro) and the 100mm f/2.8 Trioplan (for portraits).

Besides these I use 'special purpose cameras' from DJI for situations and angles my normal kit can't handle: the Action4, Osmo Pocket and a Mini 2SE drone.

I learned the trade with analog cameras and still love shooting film. I'm a fan of the Olympus full-frame OM system (I use the OM1, 1n, 2, 4 and Zuiko lenses). For street photography I prefer their half-frame Pen F camera, besides my classic Canon 7 rangefinder with the Canon 50mm f/1.4 LTM, widely referred to as 'the Japanese Summilux' (which is weird, because this little jewel predates the Summilux by two years), or my Mamiya C220 twin lens reflex, which is perfect for shooting 'from the hip'. When I'm not travelling light, or I'm working in the studio, I love to pick up the Bronica ETRS. The body and three lenses weigh a ton, but the image quality is great and the tactile and aural experience is such a treat.

I load these analog camera's with negative black and white film (Ilford, Agfa, Bergger, Fomapan) or positive color slide film (Fuji Velvia, Kodak Ektachrome). The B&W films I develop, scan and print myself. The slide films are processed in a lab, after which I frame them and throw them at the big screen using a Rollei 6x6 slide projector.