Hannah’s last concert at her Kindergarten was today. Amazing how time flies – she’s had four of these now, and now that she’s at her last year as a K2 student, the concert was preceded by her graduation ceremony too. In the last couple of concerts, the Olympus 75-300mm did the honors, with the 600mm full-frame equivalent reach reaching every part of the stage with ease. This year, the lens of choice for the long shots from our Circle seats was the newly acquired Olympus 40-15mm f2.8.
After about 600 shots, the long and short of it is that the 40-150mm is worth every cent. The E-M1 was set to Single-AF, but hit the correct focusing point. The several stops of light-gathering ability also led to the lens’ most significant advantage over the old Olympus 75-300mm, which meant I could get shots at 1/500s to freeze motion and ISO1600 – a combination of shutter speed and ISO that would had never been possible previously. The 1.4X teleconverter stayed in the bag for most of the concert after I decided I’d rather keep the extra stop of light than lose it to longer reach.
We did have experience a mishap though when it was Hannah’s class turn to perform their dance number on-stage. Specifically, and in part from a misunderstanding on where our girl would be entering the stage from, I ended up taking taking pictures centered on what looked like Hannah when it wasn’t her. Yeah – super dud LOL. Fortunately, Hannah was still very much in the frame; just not centered. The dance routine wasn’t particularly memorable unfortunately too; the performances from the other classes were more interesting, and my casual shots of those performances using the 40-150mm turned out pretty well (won’t post them here on our blog though).
A small selection of pictures!
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