Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

minnnt said:
It's your go to lens Marcus because you've flogged all your others. :D It has a huge following.

John, tbh I had kind of decided against the 12-40, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

As does an e-m1. :LOL:
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lol - its the lens I preferred the most for the type of photography I've been doing which is why I've sold the other ones.... :p
 
So glad i cant view the classifieds yet...hehe

Really fancy a 75-300 for some moonshots. The inbuilt digital teleconvertor gets some good reviews so that woukd be a 1200 equivalent fitting in my jacket! Hehe
 
Just saw a post on fb of someone with an em1, 1.4x tc and a Tamron 150-600 via speedbooster adapter... gave him something like 1680mm I think.

The built in tc is a bit of a gimmick imo as you might aswell just crop in PP.
 
12-40 would be awesome...all for under 500 squidders
 
I was using 'Live Bulb' when we did light painting with our club. And the DSLR boys were most impressed. It blew their brains.
 
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minnnt said:
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Absolutely fantastic!!
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Thanks David, is it on your list yet? :)

Gupster said:
Those are some beautiful shots Huw.

I've always liked that style of image but have never got around to getting a proper macro lens. Having a quick look at the prices they seem like good value for money too. Presumably it's a decent portrait lens as well?

It'll have to wait for a bit, I'm just about to pull the trigger on a 40-150 f/2.8......
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Thanks Mark, yes the 60mm is certainly up to portrait work and affords decent subject isolation although obviously not in the 75mm f/1.8 league.
Btw I took delivery of the 40-150 f/2.8 and MC-14 a few weeks ago, it's an awesome lens.

Sleepydawg said:
Superb shots again Huw. Apart from the 60mm what lighting/accessories are you using?
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Thanks Mick, no lighting tricks with these shots, they were all natural light.
However when I do occasionally use a flash for macro, it's nothing excotic, just the Oly FL-36R.
 
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rugeyes said:
Did you take several shots or is it just one 15 min exposure? Or am I just being dim?
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That's a single exposure.

o_O Edit: Oops, sorry thought it was a single exposure.
Thanks for the correction David.
 
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rugeyes said:
Did you take several shots or is it just one 15 min exposure? Or am I just being dim?
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Hi mate. 60 shots in total, all 15 seconds long. Processed in Lr and then stacked in Ps. Should have shot in Jpeg really so the files were smaller to deal with.

I need to try out the live bulb mode, looks pretty good!

Yes Huw, the 60mm is firmly on my list. Not sure what to get first though, the 12-40 is calling as is the fl600r.

Hmmmm....
 
minnnt said:
Hi mate. 60 shots in total, all 15 seconds long. Processed in Lr and then stacked in Ps. Should have shot in Jpeg really so the files were smaller to deal with.

I need to try out the live bulb mode, looks pretty good!

Yes Huw, the 60mm is firmly on my list. Not sure what to get first though, the 12-40 is calling as is the fl600r.

Hmmmm....
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Well you can't go wrong with the 12-40, mine's on my E-M1 as the default walk around lens.
It's sharp corner to corner from wide open. Definite recommendation.
 
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Suppose I worded it wrong. I did put it in the description on Flickr.

Good to hear your thoughts on the 12-40. It does make sense to butly that first I guess, especially as bug season isn't for a while yet.

We'll see come the end of the month. :LOL:
 
ianp5a said:
I was using 'Live Bulb' when we did light painting with our club. And the DSLR boys were most impressed. It blew their brains.
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This feature is a real bonus but I think it is starting to creep on to some DSLR.
 
minnnt said:
Hi mate. 60 shots in total, all 15 seconds long. Processed in Lr and then stacked in Ps. Should have shot in Jpeg really so the files were smaller to deal with.

I need to try out the live bulb mode, looks pretty good!

Yes Huw, the 60mm is firmly on my list. Not sure what to get first though, the 12-40 is calling as is the fl600r.

Hmmmm....
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I use a nissin di466 which I prefer to the fl36r which I am thinking of selling.
 
minnnt said:
Suppose I worded it wrong. I did put it in the description on Flickr.

Good to hear your thoughts on the 12-40. It does make sense to butly that first I guess, especially as bug season isn't for a while yet.

We'll see come the end of the month. :LOL:
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There's a 12-60 4/3 in classifieds, any good for you and can you use with an adapter?
 
Ok, so I took the EM10 and my new Oly 40-150 to Marwell Zoo today to give it a test. I've been through and edited the images and here's my observations and some samples

First thing to say is that today was grey and dull, not really conducive to good photography but good to learn the limits of the camera - most of my shots were ISO1000+ and often the 1600 max setting wasn't enough.

The first thing I noticed was that the body, O40-150, P14 and PL25 a spare battery all fit into the freebie bag that comes with the 40-150 which is spot on. I could barely tell I had it on me at all and after 2.5 hours of wandering around I still couldn't, I had actually started to look at people with normal low level (i.e. 'small') DSLRs and thought how silly and big they looked, and people with bigger bodies and bigger lenses just looked unnecessarily heavy. There was a chap with a pro Nikon and, I think, a 400mm f/4 on a monopod - how ridiculously massive that looked. I walked back to the car park rather smug about this.

IN USE
I had the Duracell battery in the camera, it is on its first charge and I had shot about 20 shots yesterday and had been playing around with the settings, I got ca. 350 shots from it today, Raw+JPG and screen switched off. I am satisfied with this given the circumstances and my expectations.

The camera is nicely responsive, switching back to the V1 to try and it seemed very sluggish in comparison (although some of the issues with the V1 could be resolved with firmware if Nikon could ever be bothered, which they won't be)
It underexposes most of the time and I will now probably adjust the AE to +0.3 permanently (maybe even 0.7).
Focussing with the 40-150 is slower than my other lenses but still ok, I used the PL25 once and it was noticeably much quicker
Focussing accuracy is fine
At 150mm I wouldn't count on more than one stop of IBIS help, sometimes better but don't count on it, at 40mm it was more like two stops
I like the small size and didn't feel like this restricted me at all (although I do have small hands).
At a zoo the small front element is very handy for shooting between fences


RESULTS
On inspecting the images I would say that at 100% they look pretty much like what my D3200 did, that is to say a little disappointing, but then I am used to full frame goodness and these were almost all shot at high ISO.
High ISO is better than the V1 and the extra resolution is nice although I still love the images the V1 produces.
At normal viewing sizes the images are very pleasing (remember the high ISO).
The raws do seem very flat and require a bit of work
The green channel seems pretty strong - had to drop it a little with most of the shots with grass in.
The images respond well to sharpening and most need it, especially with the 40-150.
White balance often went much too cool - easily corrected but not something a Nikon user is used to.
Even wide open at f5.6 and the x2 crop factor, you need to be aware of stopping down if you want to get everything in focus
Wide open the lens is perfectly good enough for me not to bother stopping down

Here are a few shots:

1. Penguins, this was the only time the sun even made an attempt to come out
Marwell-1040035 by Ned Awty, on Flickr

2. Meerkat, you can maybe see here where I've dropped the greens in the background?
Marwell-1040113 by Ned Awty, on Flickr

3. Vulture type thingies, I needed to boost the exposure and shadows a fair bit but the blacks still look nice enough to me
Marwell-1040229 by Ned Awty, on Flickr

4. Rhino
Marwell-1040312 by Ned Awty, on Flickr

5. Snow Leopard, this was where the chap with the Nikon pro kit was, I'd be interested to see his results
Marwell-1040350 by Ned Awty, on Flickr

There are a few more on Flickr.

Overall I would say that today has really ingratiated me towards the EM10, I still need to get used to some of its quirks and learn how to get the best out of it but I am really happy with how it worked today. Combined with how the whole kit fits inside a tiny bag and weighs virtually nowt, has some great other features I've not touched yet (v. excited about live bulb) I am pretty confident my D610 will be permanently relegated to 'best' occasions. Not sure how I feel about that...
 
Thanks for the thought Jack, but I'd prefer native m4/3 lenses I think. (y)

Just been looking at pics of the 12-40 on e-m10's. It's a massive lens in comparison. Suppose it's no different to my old 17-55 though at less than half the weight!
 
The shot of the Rhino is a beauty! I love these kind of pics.

So where's the 25mm shots????? :D

Don't be scared to up your auto iso, it's a very capable camera imo, especially now you know to compensate for under exposure. People's remarks on battery life is surprising, I covered a boxing event with mine, 14-42 ez and speedlight on camera (no rear screen) and took around 450 shots and the battery never lost a bar on the icon.
 
I think I have the upper limit of mine set at ISO 4000. When I had the d7000, I shot at iso3200 once or twice and was petrified. The e-m10 doesn't seem to struggle IMO
 
minnnt said:
The shot of the Rhino is a beauty! I love these kind of pics.

So where's the 25mm shots????? :D

Don't be scared to up your auto iso, it's a very capable camera imo, especially now you know to compensate for under exposure. People's remarks on battery life is surprising, I covered a boxing event with mine, 14-42 ez and speedlight on camera (no rear screen) and took around 450 shots and the battery never lost a bar on the icon.
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Not much use for 25mm at a zoo! actually, the bat eared fox was taken with the 25mm. The battery life will be shortened as it was the first charge and writing raw+JPG uses up more (just doing this whilst I learn the camera), will see how it settles down.

damianmkv said:
I think I have the upper limit of mine set at ISO 4000. When I had the d7000, I shot at iso3200 once or twice and was petrified. The e-m10 doesn't seem to struggle IMO
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I'll be honest, I've not actually tried higher than 1600, guess that's next on the list of things to try!
 
Has anyone found some suitable small lens cases. My 45mm and if off the 12-50mm are so small they seem quite vulnerable in my bag (which might be way too big but I've only just got it before deciding to change to Olympus)
 
minnnt said:
I meant from the other day. :D
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Ok, you asked for it! here's the one that really freaked me out...

Everything Zero'd in LR. Crap photo - the light on the baby fern trees was rather nice to tried to capture it, maybe wide open was a little optimistic!

Look at the purple splodges top middle!

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I was looking at cheap intervalometers when I came across this

The built in Intervalometer, it might not be shown on any spec sheet but it is there, be it just a little bit basic. The camera can be set to do time lapse photography by programming the anti shock feature, simply attach a cable release and away you go.

Anyone tried it?
 
DrRusty said:
Has anyone found some suitable small lens cases. My 45mm and if off the 12-50mm are so small they seem quite vulnerable in my bag (which might be way too big but I've only just got it before deciding to change to Olympus)
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I use ones very similar to these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00MFDNG56/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1420403221&sr=1-7&pi=AC_SX110_SY165

The offer extra cushioning and I've never had issues. The small ones are good enough for all my lenses bar the 12-40
 
Nawty said:
Crap photo
Look at the purple splodges top middle!
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Which lens?
Nawty what did the in-camera Jpeg setting give you?
Lightroom is all well and good if it gives you more than the in-camera processing as a starting point ... in some cases Lightrooms seems far inferior ... in my experience.
 
Ulfric M Douglas said:
Which lens?
Nawty what did the in-camera Jpeg setting give you?
Lightroom is all well and good if it gives you more than the in-camera processing as a starting point ... in some cases Lightrooms seems far inferior ... in my experience.
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The Panasonic/Leica 25mm f/1.4.

I didn't keep the JPG (accidentally clicked delete photos after import) but all CA correction is embedded in the raw file and applied automatically anyway. Besides, Oly don't correct purple fringing in camera as far as I know.
 
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