You can assign AE-L to a button and lock the sky exposure first before focusing elsewhere. Conversely you can also assign AF-L to a button as Luke mentioned that allows you to use "back button autofocus" such that a half press of the shutter button is solely to set the exposure. M mode is also a...
I don't feel that the E-M1 was that much of an upgrade over the E-M5, and most of the smaller operational refinements made to the E-M1 in comparison to the E-M5 can also be found in any of the other newer and smaller Olympus bodies such as the E-P5, E-M10 and E-M5 II. The most useful that I...
The same angle-of-view is maintained for each of the three common aspect ratios in cameras that have a multi-aspect sensor; the LX100 being one of those. This type of sensor has been used in some but not all Panasonic cameras and is also found in the Canon G1X II. There is an explanation of this...
I think that the reason why I kept the E-M5 over the E-P5 was that the Pen was just a bit too pretty. The E-M5 was (still is) my camera for all conditions and all applications, whereas I mostly just babied the E-P5. However, the E-M5 did inherit the strap that I originally bought for the E-P5.
I once tried to replace my E-M5 with an E-P5, and I currently have an E-M1 as well. While both of them were/are better cameras, and the E-M1 benefits from having a Panasonic sensor, the E-M5 remains my sentimental favourite.
They were all present by the 2013 release of the E-P5 which the first developmental step for Olympus after the E-M5. The E-M5 II will have them and probably a few more as well.
The original E-M5 is stuck in the middle whereby it still has great hardware but lacking those small but useful UI...
There are some niceties that Olympus has introduced subsequent to the E-M5. Wifi (for remote shutter and image transfer), "0sec" anti-shock setting, ability to replace a mode position with a custom setting, support of touchscreen guesture that allows you to "flick" around an image when it is...
The latest Olympus camera body that I tried the 14mm on was an E-M5, and while it was generally very good there were still some occasions where camera and lens weren't quite co-operating and the focus would hunt. I've had a few Panasonic zoom lenses and the AF of all of them has behaved...
The E-M1 is a very comfortable camera to hold and shoot with, but ultimately I find that I prefer the form of the original E-M5. Even though the size difference probably isn't all that great it just feels much smaller and more discrete.
There are newer Olympus models than the E-M5 but it hasn't been made obsolete by them nor by anything else in it's class, really. I would still recommend it (hardly surprising since I still use one!). I like that the new E-M5 II seems to have a fully articulated screen but to be honest I would...
Good luck with the sale of your Pentax gear. It probably is a more difficult time to be selling right before Christmas but I still see second-hand gear moving and I just sold a lens myself a few days ago. Perhaps be careful if you are selling by auction with less potential bidders around.
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Yes, and yes.
The m4/3 standard is based around a common physical lens mount as well as the electronic communication protocol between camera and lens. There is a little more to it than that but that is the basics of it in a nutshell.
Olympus had maintained the one hotshoe accessory port on...
Given how aggressive Panasonic were with keeping the overall size of the camera down, I think that the size of the sensor is too ambitious for the lens as it is. A slighy larger LX100 with a lens benchmarked against the Lumix 12-35mm f2.8 X would have been quite some camera, and even more so if...
I do worry anytime I see sliders being dragged all the way to 100. It's usually a sign that something's gone wrong with the original image, or that something's about to go wrong. In this video there also seems to be a lot of double-handling happening with respect to the exposure controls i.e...
Get yourself a MkI G1X* and you won't have much interest in these new pretenders to the throne.
*Yes I also see the irony of the forum software linking to the MkII :smile:
Even if you were to crop the image of the Canon down to simulate a 200mm equiv lens you would be left with an image that is half the height and half the width of the sensor, which equals one quarter (0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25) of the sensor's area. On a 20mp sensor this leaves you with 5mp, but given...
I just have to consider that at present I have a camera that can shoot full resolution raw files at anything up to 10fps, and yet I don't go around machine gunning everything with it. So, am I going to start doing 4K video for the sake of extracting stills? Probably not.
I think that in...
The same thing happens on every camera that I am aware of which utilizes in-camera lens correction for distortion (usually de-fishing), including interchangeable lens cameras. Apparently it would not do for a camera to be producing images at less than the advertised resolution so they up-res...
I was never totally enamoured by the silver version of the E-M5, but for the reason I find that it suits the E-M10 shape better. The silver finish on the E-M10 also looks a little shinier to me as well, but I might just be imagining it.
It could just be that when you zoom all the way in during image review you aren't looking at the full resolution image. The older Panasonic Micro 4/3 cameras did this, although it would be strange if a 2014 model camera did the same.
I couldn't see myself ever using a speedlight flash on a camera this small, so the only accessory I'd be attaching to the hotshoe is the supplied flash. That begs the question then that if the hotshoe had been left off, whether there would have been space available for an on-board flash...
Here's one "I want the LX100" feature: aspect ratio bracketing. From one shutter release the LX100 will save a file in each of the four possible aspect ratios with framelines displayed for each.
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I'm guessing that you might use it during playback and for various menu-based setting adjustments, so you're right in that it's not as problematic as the similar dial from the old E-P1/2 to give one example.
LOL, well...
- Smaller than I'd prefer
- Letterbox style rear screen, no tilt or swivel
- Prefer multi-function dials over dedicated dials, don't like lens-mounted aperture dials
- The rear control ring looks fiddly to operate
- Being a Panasonic I have doubts that it will provide a...
If you're considering the E-M10 and GX7, the E-P5 is second only to the E-M1 in specifications and has come down some in price since it's launch last year.
The biggest change that I found in the E-M1 compared to previous micro 4/3 bodies is that Olympus got the (raw) colours right this time around; no more dealing with the hue and saturation of sky blues amongst other things. In fact, if it wasn't for a slightly higher tendency to blow out reds, I...
The problem with OV3 is that it does not show adjustments in real time. It makes it very hard to get the image right when you need to wait so long to see the effects of any changes.
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