Some might like to see the out of camera JPEG gallery I put together from the testing on Friday night.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157636515560223/ enjoy G On Oct 12, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > The new Olympus E-M1 arrived yesterday. I picked it up on the way to the > office and charged the battery there. My first test of it after I got home > from the office was to stick a lens on it, and drag it out to the club. > > With the Panasonic/Leica Summilux-DG 25mm lens, focusing for still snaps was > near instantaneous and quite accurate. Out of 200+ exposures I made, just > snapping around like a tourist with an instamatic at a party, only about six > were poorly focused. > > I left the camera on its defaults, changing only that it would capture JPEG > Ln + raw and setting the ISO to 6400 and 12800, and setting it to S-AF+mf so > I could play with the manual focus. Here are a few JPEG+raw pairs at what I > think is somewhere around EV 0-1 light in club lighting (mostly red and > purple gels). (There's also a video at ISO 6400, again made using the camera > defaults; the link is right near the bottom of the page below.) > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25268645/oly-em1-low-light/index.html > > I'm satisfied that the E-M1 has plenty of sensitivity for my needs. It's a > very fast and responsive camera in use too. It's a bit small for my hands > without the HLD-7 battery grip fitted, I hope that arrives soon, but even so > it was comfortable to hold and use, and all the controls work nicely. I had > NO trouble focusing manually even without any focusing aids enabled, the > electronic viewfinder is terrific. So is the image stabilization, best I've > used. I found its defaults good enough for a quick session, I hardly used > anything other than the super control panel display and the shutter release. > > Today I'll snap about in some more normal lighting and lower ISO settings. :-) > > G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
