Hi everyone!
My name is Jason and I'm from Canada originally but have been based out of the San Juan Islands in Washington State since 2016.
My roots were in stills photography but wildlife video has been my passion for the past 6 or 7 years now. My wife runs a non profit that does whale research in this region and I've been involved doing video work for educational events as well as whale encounter videos that we regularly post on our YT channel.
Most of my video work has been with Lumix GH series cameras, but this week I took the plunge on my first L-mount camera, the Lumix S1H. I know it's an older camera now but it has always been a bit of a unicorn in my eyes as far as image and build quality goes, so I'm very excited to finally own this camera now and it has been fantastic to use so far. In many ways it feels like the bigger brother to my GH6 which also has contrast detect autofocus. I predominantly shoot video with adapted manual lenses so not having good autofocus has never been an issue for me. My go to lenses for wildlife are: Leica APO-Telyt-R 280mm f/4 and Leica APO-Telyt-R 180mm f3.4.
I'll eventually be looking for an L mount wide angle similar to my Voigtlander Nokton 17.5mm for MFT, so if anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them!
I'm looking forward to frequenting this forum and getting to know others here and seeing what everyone has been doing with their cameras
Below is one of my first images (of my cat named Minke) taken with the S1H paired with the Leica 180mm 3.4.
Cheers!
-Jason
My name is Jason and I'm from Canada originally but have been based out of the San Juan Islands in Washington State since 2016.
My roots were in stills photography but wildlife video has been my passion for the past 6 or 7 years now. My wife runs a non profit that does whale research in this region and I've been involved doing video work for educational events as well as whale encounter videos that we regularly post on our YT channel.
Most of my video work has been with Lumix GH series cameras, but this week I took the plunge on my first L-mount camera, the Lumix S1H. I know it's an older camera now but it has always been a bit of a unicorn in my eyes as far as image and build quality goes, so I'm very excited to finally own this camera now and it has been fantastic to use so far. In many ways it feels like the bigger brother to my GH6 which also has contrast detect autofocus. I predominantly shoot video with adapted manual lenses so not having good autofocus has never been an issue for me. My go to lenses for wildlife are: Leica APO-Telyt-R 280mm f/4 and Leica APO-Telyt-R 180mm f3.4.
I'll eventually be looking for an L mount wide angle similar to my Voigtlander Nokton 17.5mm for MFT, so if anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them!
I'm looking forward to frequenting this forum and getting to know others here and seeing what everyone has been doing with their cameras
Below is one of my first images (of my cat named Minke) taken with the S1H paired with the Leica 180mm 3.4.
Cheers!
-Jason
- Panasonic DC-S1H
- 180mm
- 1/400s
- ISO 640
