On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:35:19PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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/
Interesting. When I tried looking at the exposure data using fluidr, http://www.fluidr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157636515560223/ It said: ISO 6400-12,800, f/1.8-3.5 > > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
