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Outstanding m4/3 photographers

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
With all the great new cameras coming to the market these days, full frame and others, it's tempting to wish boring old m4/3 farewell and "invest" a few thousand monies in shiny new equipment with sensors as large as football fields. However, as previous experience has shown, the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence, the important operand being "seems". So, I've looked a bit around to see what photographers with real skills can get out of their Panalympic cameras.

I decided to make this into a thread, a thread with links to outstanding photographers using m4/3 gear who are not active on this forum, to find inspiration to become a better photographer using the gear I have, rather than wasting money on buying new stuff from obscure suppliers like Nikon, Canon or Fuji. Please contribute.

Here's my first link, Diego Garín Martín:

https://www.diegogm.es/
 
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Vivek

Guest
Outstanding photographers using m4/3 gear or outstanding m4/3 photographers?
 

Jeffg53

Member
It strikes me that the 'Visionaries' produce better cliches than the average but I guess that that is their job. I would love to see some more original work.
 

Oren Grad

Active member
My friend Carl Weese has done virtually all of his walkaround snapshooting in recent years with m4/3 cameras, most recently a GX7:

http://workingpictures.blogspot.com/

In addition to his color work, Carl has started to print selected m4/3 captures in platinum/palladium on matte-surface art papers, by way of inkjet internegatives. Some examples:

http://www.carlweese.com/Winter2018/index.html

http://www.carlweese.com/Burr2018/index.html

http://www.carlweese.com/SRA2017/index.html

I had a chance to see some of Carl's most recent m4/3-Pt/Pd prints "in the flesh" a couple of weeks ago. They are quiet, subtle and beautiful, very much in the same spirit as his Pt/Pd contact prints from large format and ultra-large format film negatives.

There are a number of posts about this work on his blog, under the "platinum/palladium" tag.
 
In addition to his color work, Carl has started to print selected m4/3 captures in platinum/palladium on matte-surface art papers, by way of inkjet internegatives.
m43 is certainly adequate for the 7.3"x11" prints he has been making. No reason they shouldn't be technically excellent.
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Then there's Joe Edelman...

Joe Edelman's photography is a bit too slick for my taste, but technically, it's very, very impressive. What he does is clearly within the boundaries of MF or at least full frame territory, but he shoots it all with a couple of E-M1 II bodies and a Pen F.

His portfolio:
https://www.joeedelman.com/portfolio/

His gear:
https://www.joeedelman.com/photography-gear/

Interview:
https://thisweekinphoto.com/talking-olympus-with-joe-edelman/

Edit:
Another forum member told me about another video with Joe Edelman that is worth watching, particularly for those not yet confident with their choice of m4/3 as the camera system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGEqzeFvIU
 
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