{"id":3956,"date":"2010-11-06T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2010-11-06T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T00:16:56","slug":"europe-holiday-rome-v-art-works-inside-the-vatican-using-the-leica-d-25mm-f1-4-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Europe holiday – Rome V – art works inside the Vatican using the Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the art galleries in Italy do not allow photography, but the Vatican allows photography except inside the Sistine Chapel itself.<\/p>\n

The lighting is quite variable, and thus a lens such as the Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 or the Olympus ZD 50mm f\/2.0 macro is very handy to have with you – tripods are impossible, and you do not want to be using electronic flash!<\/p>\n

These photos were taken with the Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 lens on the Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera.<\/p>\n

They even had a Van Gogh painted ca 1890 (ISO 400, 1\/40th sec, f\/1.4):<\/p>\n

\"Van <\/p>\n

And a version of Rodin’s The Thinker<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Rodin\" <\/p>\n

Much of the collection, is either religious symbolism, art nudes or disturbing, graphic depictions of violence, such as this large tapestry wall mural of which only a small section is shown here:<\/p>\n

\"Violence\" <\/p>\n

More of my photos of the Vatican collection can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the art galleries in Italy do not allow photography, but the Vatican allows photography except inside the Sistine Chapel itself. The lighting is quite variable, and thus a lens such as the Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 or the Olympus ZD 50mm f\/2.0 macro is very handy to have with you – tripods are impossible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[502,198,18,196,197,156],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-art","tag-europe","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-italy","tag-rome","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t