I am very
happy with my new toy! I have added the Olympus M.Zuiko ED 75-300
f4.8-6.7 II (Thank you Clive D) and have also experimented with the Panasonic
45-200 f4-5.6 I have a Nissin Di486 flash (Guide No 33) which I bought
for my Panasonic G1 and is completely compatible with the OMD and takes over
when the bundled flash (Guide No 10) runs out of steam. I can use the
bundled flash as a master and the Nissin as a remote with TTL metering
Nice
surprises
1. 10 fps
2. Weight
(for travel and walkabout)
3. Low
light performance
4. In
body 5 axis image stabilization - experimenting with the 75-300 (full frame
equivalent 150-600) at 250 upwards hand held without problems
5.
Weather proof
6. 12-40
f/2.8 lens is a great walkabout lens. Equivalent to 24 - 80 and light as
a feather and sharp as a pin
Ooh - er
shocks!
1. Battery
life - I was glad to hear from Mark Farrington that 3rd party batteries work
well and I now have the original + two spares
2. Some
of the controls are less than perfect - the four point adjuster on the back
moves the target focus around and I have been known to have moved it
accidentally. It can be re-programmed I’m told, but I have not yet
discovered how
3. The
Manual is more or less useless. Call me old fashioned, but when I take
out a 200+ page manual, I hope to find all that I need within its covers; alas,
no. The English section is 8 pages long including 3.5 pages of Health
& Safety of which 1 page is specially for our transatlantic cousins (“Do
not immerse the flash into water of other liquids” and such like). I have
bought a third party book.
I have
tried to pick out some images which show a broad breadth of use - the horses at
Ely show the long lens at work with mid-level high ISO. The bishop in the
church shows a very low light shot without flash, the flowers (are intended to)
show sharp focus from the 10-40 and the goldfinches again high(ish) ISO +
handheld at 300 mm focal length.
A couple
more good points
Focus
peaking - I hadn’t heard of this until I tripped over it in an article I was
reading this afternoon - I presume that it is a mirrorless only feature?
I shall experiment in Menorca
The ease
with which my phone became a wireless remote for the camera, complete with
viewfinder info in the phone screen, but I wish that I could stop it showing me
each image that I shoot on the phone in edit mode. I can get over this
using continuous shooting, but that may not be appropriate if my camera is on a
tripod pointing at a branch waiting for a passing eagle to rest on the branch whilst
I sit indoors to avoid alarming said raptor
And a bad
one.
It’s all
very well being able to rattle away at 10 fps, but only with continuous AF
turned off - if I want continuous AF with jpegs only, I can get 6 fps and with
RAW, 3.5 - Not quite what it said on the tin!
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