Are you running a K&F concept? What length and weight would you recommend? Are there any superior brands I should look for instead and if so what model? Cheers!
Chris, when using Auto I.S. with a manual lens, you have to set the Focal Length manually. I can see @ 2:33 that the focal length was set to 400mm and this was the reason why the image stabilizer overreacted.
Great vid I have an Oly EM10 mark 2 and have not really understood Live comp until now. One question when I view the shot the info has the time of the pre- set ie 1.3, 1.6, 2, 2.5 etc. Seems a little strange to me, i know I have the total time from taking the shot. I like that you can see the image building on your screen and I can stop the shot at my leisure. Please make more of these tutorial type vids they are great.
I LOVE my Olympus 60mm macro. I shoot on Lumix bodies, and the lens is equally good on Panasonic cameras. It is so darn sharp and always produces such beautiful images that I think people often fail to appreciate this lens as a general purpose lens in addition to its macro qualities. But it is not perfect. The lens design is old, and it struggles with AF in lower light/lower contrast situations, and macro subjects are often like that, tiny flowers and insects in undergrowth with leafy backgrounds. Newer lens designs handle those kinds of light noticeably better. I have also have the Leica 45 macro and Lumix 30 macro and each has their uses, but the 30, being a newer design is much better then the Olympus 60 with AF in difficult light, but I still prefer using the 60. I have a feeling that it would be the OM 90mm macro that would be the best MFT macro, but I can't afford that one yet.
Absolutely love your photos and channel! I've been playing around with photography for a few years as it has tied in nicely with my other hobbies , hiking camping and enduro motor biking. Started out with a canon s95 then a s100 after they both quit due to drops ect picked a used Olympus om d e m5 and loved it but it too gave up after taking 30,000+ shots. Then purchased a used Lumix g7 and just suffered a fall from the bike at speed. Now bought a used Olympus om d e mii with a low SC online witch should arrive next week. Your channel inspired me to seek out the camera and strive to capture quality images as you certainly are. Really like how you share the thought processes pre capture, awesome tutorials on the m1 ii Thank you..
A year after getting my first DSLR, a Canon 7D, I'll be meeting up with my son for his first time to the Oregon coast. I'm now realizing a wide angle would probably be a great lens to have with, so just ordered one of these. I'll have this same set-up you're using for similar setting :)
Would you recommend the 6d over 5d in any model for landscape photography? I’m looking for an early 5d but can’t decide what to pick… I want those awesome colors that 5d classic and mk2 has though they are different (mk1 creamy yellowish, mk2 earthy tones) Will I get the same results with the 6d, the film like pictures? Thanks!
If I remember rightly the 6D and 5D2 were realised around the same time with the 6D having some of the features of the 5D2 stripped back. I’d recommend it over the 5D Classic purely for ease of use.
You don't have to get the largest and most expensive FF gear to get better pictures. There are small and cheap FF options as well. And, picture-wise, they are still way better than MFT. Unless that's not what you are after. Ditching FF for bad and made-up reasons won't help.
Small FF lenses do exist. It is really unfair and even dishonest to compare a small MFT kit lens against the large L-zoom, just because the actual equivalent F2.0 MFT zoom doesn't exist. I can use the tiny RF28F2.8 pancake and crop it down to MFT format to get a 56mm eqv. if I want, or stitch a few images to go wider, while getting medium format level results. Honestly, do we really need a separate camera system for Instagram? A one-trick pony? I don't.
I'm off to Newfoundland in July and taking my new 12-100mm F/4 lens with me on my EM1 MkII. I figured I could learn a lot by watching your videos and this one in particular; I was right :) Thanks Chris.
I bought a used 5D in 2018 and sold it the same year. I regretted ever since. I just got another one (from MPB) this week. £200 and it looks like it's never been touched. It's immaculate. Anyway, it will have my 40mm f/2.8 "pancake" on it full time. That's a great combination for a walk-around camera, just wide enough. 50mm just crosses over into a Portrait lens for me, whereas the 40mm is an environmental portrait lens. It gives you just enough of the background. If I had to buy a lens for it then I'd probably get an old 28mm f/2.8. They are 100 quid and good enough. Amazing to think that you can get a 5D and 28mm lens for £300. There are no excuses any more.
As usual I enjoyed this Chris. I have three cameras with High-Res mode. On the Pen-f I used it exactly once and couldn't be bothered to use it again as I use it for street photography. Both the OM-5 and the OM-1 have the handheld High-Res mode and do a great job. Still, I do not use it that often. One of the reasons is that it eats up disk space. Like someone else in the comments said it does give better colour definition though. So, in some cases it has been very useful to me. On the other hand I still shoot with the 8Mp E-300 so, resolution is not that important to me. Nice shirt and cap by the way! Obviously for me as a Dutchie it is from the wrong team 🙂
Very nice of you to have this realistic approach to this subject Chris! Great photos too! I have used my E-M10 MKII extensively in the dark and I have always been happy to go up to ISO 3200 or even 6400 with it. As long as the subject is exposed properly you get pretty good results. Some photography friends then pointed at some grain in the background but I couldn't be bothered as it doesn't change the overall photograph. Meanwhile I have newer OM System cameras and the photos of these cameras (with newer sensors and processors) can be de-noised in OM System Workspace with AI Noise Reduction giving ridiculous good results even at ISO 25600. I am very happy with my Olympus and OM System cameras. Question: Do you use auto gradation? It often gives me very nice results.
There might be a difference in the quality but when I look at the Olympus 12-40 2.8 pro then see how much the Sony 24-70 2.8 GM costs I realise that I'd probably get worse photos going full frame because £2000 is too rich for me 😂
I am a Nikon guy and just bought an Olympus E500 just to play with, (well it was dirt cheap) I must admit I can’t stop using it !! Going to up my Olympus collection for sure
These are of the very best framed and edited images I have seen after looking at hundreds of sites including Thomas H and the like. Check your algorithms, you deserve a lot better.
Regularly shot gigs with my E-M1 Mkii and ventured into the region of 6400 (and above at one venue), all more than usable. Usable enough to have exhibited, published, and sold more than enough of them.
I agree with your basic point, but isn't macro photography more-or-less cheating in this case, since it's so much easier to get blurry backgrounds here than it is when doing environmental portraits, where you want the whole person in the shot?
