Olympus Stylus 1

[tilman]

oh, I forgot to add these two! Challenging light - but still leaps and bounds ahead of anything my phone would have captured

lunchtime walk by tilman paulin, on Flickr

lunchtime walk by tilman paulin, on Flickr

 

[tilman]

One source of frustration though - I'm giving up on trying to find a functioning spare for the Stylus 1.
Either I'm very unlucky (with 3 unsuccessful tries via B&H and keh) - or there's just a lot of issues with the camera:
1) 1st one had a 4 or 5 second shutter lag at the long end (press the shutter and the image was taken 4 or 5 seconds later)
2) 2nd one had been dissambled and re-assembled by previous owner - camera body was creaking and in pretty bad shape
3) 3rd one can't focus at all at the long end of the lens on far away objects (AF fails to acquire any focus and MF can't focus far enough to infinity)

So I'm hoping that my current camera lasts a long time

 

[Jock Elliott]

the Stylus 1 is still my favorite walk-around camera these days... A few highlights from the last months:

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I would be proud to have taken any one of the those shots . . . let alone the whole series. Nice work on the woodpecker . . . they are notoriously shy . . . will slide around to the other side of the tree as soon as you raise your camera.

Cheers, Jock

 

[hannahntilly]

I'm still using the Stylus 1 though a new intermittent problem has appeared where "no card" is displayed. If I eject and reinsert the card it seems OK. I've tried a different card but the problem still occurs occasionally.
The 300mm equivalent reach is very useful with wildlife. Here's a grab shot of a bird of prey (maybe a red kite?) which cleaned up nicely in Topaz denoise.

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.....and here's one of some deer. This was processed using Dxo Deep Prime. I'm new to the Dxo software but it seems to do a great job with the Olympus Stylus files.

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[hannahntilly]

And while I'm talking about DxO Deep Prime, here's an example on a 3200 ISO shot taken in darkness with the Olympus Stylus 1.
The first is in Lightroom though I admit that my sharpening and noise reduction skills with the sliders are poor.

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and this is with default settings in DxO Deep Prime:

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[hannahntilly]

I had a short holiday in Spain and took the Stylus 1. I've been using DxO Deep Prime recently to process my small sensor pictures and I find it does a very good job. Here's an example at 300mm :

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[hannahntilly]

We had a lovely walk on the South Downs Way in Sussex last week. I think the Stylus 1 did a great job with the pretty scenery.

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[Tili]

Lovely photos!
I have looking at getting one of these, but I am too much of a bokeh lover. I just can't.

 

[hannahntilly]

Here are a few more from The Olympus Stylus 1. They've all been processed by DxO DeepPRIME.

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[hannahntilly]

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These two are with the Stylus 1 but I've also been experimenting with a Lumix LF1 as an alternative - the LF1 is very small with a 1/1.7" sensor, EVF and a 28-300 zoom. I'm very fond of my Lumix LX5 and hoped that the LF1 would be similar but offer a longer zoom range. However, I've been very disappointed. The Stylus 1 is in a different league entirely. The Stylus 1 is a brilliant package.

 

[JensM]

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I've been experimenting with a Lumix LF1 as an alternative pocketable camera as it's very small with a 1/1.7" sensor, EVF and a 28-200 zoom. I'm very fond of my Lumix LX5 and hoped that the LF1 would be similar but offer a longer zoom range. However, I've been very disappointed. The Stylus 1 is in a different league entirely. The Stylus 1 is a brilliant package.

I have a LF1 that I really ought to use more for getting to know it better, it was mainly bought for its miniscule size and LVF.

Was out and about today, and choose the newer (to me) Canon G15 as a companion but I really should take the Stylus out for an airing again. Its been a while and it deserves better. As do the ZX-1, which was the contender for todays outing.