A very nice set and an impressive camera. I actually took a close look at your photo comparisons and was impressed. Like the size for sure. Cheers, Christine
On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
