That's close to 30%, not bad at all for digital shooting these days.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos
> Thanks, but keep in mind you're only seeing 20 out of 70. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/12/2013 10:19 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Nice work, Chuck. I never tried soccer photos except with film, in a
>> Spotmatic, and had poor results. You seem to have the technique pretty
>> well
>> in hand.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:54 PM
>> Subject: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos
>>
>>
>>> Here's a set of photos of my oldest grandson's soccer game in High
>>> Point, North Carolina. Shot on April 6 on the trip back home from
>>> Florida.
>>>
>>> Unlike the stock car racing shots where I had trouble with the EVF
>>> display "tearing" during fast motion I had no such trouble here.
>>> Perhaps the action was slower than the race cars but I had also set the
>>> EVF this time for faster response. I also set the IS for horizontal
>>> panning which hadn't been done with the cars which might also have been
>>> a factor then.
>>>
>>> The lens used for all shots was the 14-150/4-5.6. All shots were at ISO
>>> 400 and f/5.6 in AV mode with no compensation (hazy light). There are
>>> 20 shots here selected from a total of 70. Half of the total (35) were
>>> shot at 150mm (300mm equiv). There were 7 focus failures (focus
>>> generally somewhere behind on the fans rather than players) and all were
>>> at 150mm for a focus failure rate of 20% for motion shots at the long
>>> end. I think that's not too bad considering the fast motion and shallow
>>> DoF at 150mm.
>>>
>>> Every image here has been cropped to some degree, most at about 1/3 to
>>> 1/4 of the frame with a few smaller than that. They have been exposure
>>> and shadow/highlight adjusted in ACR as well as given a clarity bump.
>>> No other processing in ACR. All of the images were cropped to 4x6 ratio
>>> and resized for possible printing. No other changes except the slight
>>> sharpening applied by BreezeBrowser in resizing the 4x6 images for this
>>> web display.
>>>
>>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Alex%27s%20soccer%20game%20-%20Apr%206,%202013/index.htm>
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