Road Trip Photography Blog

If you want the best results in terms of quality of your pictures you need a full format camera. Those devices are big and heavy and they draw attention. That is the backside of the coin – not to mention that this kind of photo equipment is expensive. I chose a different setup. I bought myself the latest GH4 from Panasonic along with a Metabone Speedbooster.

I just have 3 lenses: 24mm, 50mm and 85mm made by Canon. The reason for this setup is the ability to shoot footage with it. It is a compromise between both worlds of Photography and Filming. Even with a smaller sensor, the GH4 is good enough to shot some decent photos. As a backup, I have my old GH2 with a 25mm f0.95 Voigtländer. Just in case!

When I went on my journey to New Zealand back in 2014 I was looking for a small camera to travel around with a backpack. For that reason, a full format camera was just too big and much expensive to risk such a precious piece of photo equipment in unpredictable weather conditions.

Since I already had lenses for my Panasonic AG AF101 video camera I needed just a different camera which uses the MFT-standard for photography. So I took the easiest approach and bought myself a Panasonic GH2.

My favorite lens was the Voightländer 25mm 0.95. This fancy piece of photo equipment was more expensive than the rest of the Panasonic GH2. It is a very nice and sharp lens. The downside is that is all manual. It is like back in the days when Daddy used to take hours before he shot a picture. Aperture and focus are full manually adjusted which brought me back to the old-school style of photography.

With the combination of the GH2 and the Voigtländer 25mm, it is like learning photography from the very basics again. You need to develop some skills to get some good photos in a dynamic situation. Especially in low light conditions and when you want the shallow depth of field effect for portraits.