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A portrait we took with our Canon 550D, pairing the HDR function of Magic Lantern with one of our fave retro lenses - the Helios 44M 58MM to help capture more detail in the shadowy areas of a particular light set-up.

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Ian & Dominic

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Thanks to suggestions we had from the friendly folk here, we decided to experiment with a different kind of retro lens to our FD set and went for the the Olympus OM lenses. Doing a bit of research we found that these got pretty good reviews, feedback and scores on various comparison charts, so we thought we'd get some and try them out for ourselves.

Above is a test photo taken with the Olympus OM 50mm.

We found the bokeh to be less creamy than our FD lenses but the detail was certainly more sharper too. Overall we felt the images out shined those captured with FD lenses, although we are still fans of our FD lenses too. We'll just be getting a lot more use out of the Olympus lenses...

Thanks for viewing guys, and special thanks to all those who left suggestions under our retro lens posting, as to what other old style lenses we could try.

Ian & Dom

Hi guys,

Thanks to suggestions we had from the friendly folk here, we decided to experiment with a different kind of retro lens to our FD set and went for the the Olympus OM lenses. Doing a bit of research we found that these got pretty good reviews, feedback and scores on various comparison charts, so we thought we'd get some and try them out for ourselves.

We found the bokeh to be less creamy than our FD lenses but the detail was certainly more sharper too. Overall we felt the images out shined those captured with FD lenses, although we are still fans of our FD lenses too. We'll just be getting a lot more use out of the Olympus lenses...

Thanks for viewing guys, and special thanks to all those who left suggestions under our retro lens posting, as to what other old style lenses we could try.

Ian & Dom

It's a now where near as smooth as we wanted, but then that's down to the fact we need to practice (and experiment) a bit more with it. Not to mention we were using the basic 18-55mm kit lens....

But overall, we loved this function.

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Ian & Dom

We used the Hdr Efex pro plugin for Photoshop on this one. Very easy to get to grips with and lots of room for creativity.

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Ian & Dom

More experimenting with HDR....

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Ian & Dom

Some photos we took using our 550D/Rebel T2i running magic lantern and utlizing HDR and tone-mapping in post using Efex pro software.

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Ian & Dom

A test video we shot using FD lenses on a 550D/Rebel T2i running magic lantern.

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Ian & Dom