Agree with all His Mooseness says here. Having limited experience with his
OM-D, I still can say it's an excellent system capable of producing images that
(wild guess) 85 percent of photographers would be between perfectly happy and
ecstatic with. And you flat can't beat the size and weight of the kit.
--Bob
On Apr 16, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 4/15/2013 6:35 PM, Don Holbrook wrote:
>> Nothing but hope.
>
> Thanks for your comments on the images.
>
> I'm curious. What sort of improvements might you be hoping for? Particularly
> for the lenses you would plan to use?
>
> I have my own, rather short, list, but I am an avid user, so I know what
> comes out of the E-M5 rather well.
>
> From your comments, it would appear that you think/thought that the E-M5
> somehow makes unsharp images? I find that to
> be untrue. Most unsharpness I've encountered, as with film and previous
> digicams, is the result of the limitations of
> physics and of operator compromises.
>
> Inadequate shutter speeds and DOF are common problems that have nothing to do
> with camera design/performance.
>
> As to the camera itself, shutter shock is a very real problem, but the
> Anti-Shock setting makes it a non-issue for
> someone like me. But it does add 1/8 sec. to shutter response, which is not
> ideal. An electronic first curtain or new
> shutter design is no. 1 on my list. Still, I didn't feel it intruded on
> taking these shots.
>
> As to sharpness, all but a couple of DSLR/ILCs use an anti-alias filter and
> ALL digital sampling softens edges*. Those
> who want the best sharpness their lenses are capable of in Raw files right
> out of the camera might as well also take up
> the practice of levitation using mind power.
>
>> I refuse to buy another set of lenses. With an OMD, I would use nothing but
>> Zuikos.
>
> As all Oly lenses are Zuikos, I presume you mean manual focus, OM mount
> Zuikos. If that's your intent, I really see no
> point either in buying an E-M5 or in looking forward to its successor. It's
> best qualities are really found in
> conjunction with µ4/3 lenses, both Zuikos and some others. It's qualities of
> small size and weight and fast AF are
> wasted on large, heavy, MF lenses, and, as many have noted, the balance is
> off with the larger OM Zuikos.
>
> If you like WA, the OM Zuikos are disappointing. Even the lovely, little
> 18/3.5 is 36 mm eq. on 4/3. At the long end,
> the 300/4.5 is vastly larger and heavier than the 75-300 zoom. For those very
> reasons, I've not tried it, but I'm
> willing to bet it's no better optically, and likely a bit worse, than the
> µzoom. The 50/1.4 (or, I suppose, f1.2) is
> nice on an E-M5, for leisurely work.
>
> If you want a digital back for OM Zuikos, I don't think you can do better
> than a Canon FF body. If you don't need live
> view, the original 5D is wonderful, else 5DII or III or 6D. The lenses are
> designed for FF. Why throw away half the
> image circle you paid for and receive the compromises in central performance
> made by the designers for outer zone
> performance?
>
> BTW, the bokeh you admire in these shots is entirely a function of the M.ZD
> 75-300 lens, not the camera.
>
> M.Z.D. Moose
>
> * Digital sampling ALWAYS softens edges - ALWAYS. The original capture of a
> subject, scanning an analog source and
> resizing an image are all cases of this. I wrote at some length about this,
> with a thought experiment and examples, on
> Zone-10 over five years ago. If you read this and the following three pages,
> perhaps you will understand what is
> happening.
> <http://zone-10.com/cmsm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=1>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Don Holbrook wrote:
>> the detail and bokeh.........wow. Was waiting for an E-5 upgrade....may
>> have to reconsider.
>
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