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Subject: Re: [OM] Wave Slamming into breakwall
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:12:07 -0800
On 1/2/2015 9:23 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
Your adjustments are certainly extreme, yes. As for the E3—I had one back when it was 
new, and it was certainly a good camera in good light, but ultimately it is a failure in 
terms of delivering on the promise of MFT—way too big given the sensor size.
I'm doing a little (lot) of rework on this image. I think I can save it.

There's a lot to like in it. My real objection is the bright sharpening/LCE/whatever halos. They are all around the white/gray edges. The lower triangles of sky on the sides of the top are wildly lighter than the surrounding skies, and thus very unnatural looking.

Overall, it's a good, vintage film look, but film never had those halos. They are a easy to avoid/control in PS (or, I suppose, any editor with levels and masks.) Ya just gotta avoid applying Clarity/whatever directly on the sharp edges. Pure black/white edges, as on the left of the pylon, are fine, the black halo is on black, and white on white, but sharp(ish) black to sky, blue or gray, is trouble.

As to the camera size, itself, I have no problem with it. A pro camera
needs to have a certain size and mass and it seems about right-size to
me.

So, I need to avoid selling anything photographic, or they will come take away 
my beloved small, light stuff? :-(

Same weight and bulk as the 5D. I will never go back to that unless I need FF 
or larger sensor size.

  It does balance well. Not as comfy as the E-1, but tons better
than most cameras. While I like the E-M1 for size/weight, it does feel
a little cramped for long-term holding and it doesn't balance as well
with big, heavy glass.

Different strokes for different hands, arms, fingers, etc. If you had an E-M1, and an M.Z. 75-300, you wouldn't have the balance problem.

This picture was handheld with the huge Tokina AT-X 100-300 F4 lens at
the 300mm end. I did set the IS for 300mm and it did a pretty good job
of saving a handful of pictures. I'm getting blown around by strong
winds and it is very cold.
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On 1/1/2015 3:36 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
Moose, it really isn't all that bad.

"blown around by strong winds and it is very cold" Yeah, sounds lovely ... Remember, 
around here, anything below about 53 is cold, and anything down near freezing is unbearably 
arctic.  :-)   It's sunny and calm out right now, but 45°, Brrrrrrr.

First of all, we were there because that's where family is. Well, some of the 
family, at least. Others are in
Florida...

Yeah, that's how I last got snowed on, a family gathering.

Secondly, it's a great place to visit--even in the wintertime. No bugs.

No bugs here, summer or winter.

It's a beautiful area and the lakeshore is unique.

When are the times with good weather and minimal bugs? I've seen the lakeshore from ~40,000 ft. Flights to Boston often cross Lake Michigan about half way up. :-)

It's where I grew up.

Well, I'm wintering where I grew up, too, but for the Mexico break coming up.
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Half the shots are either blurry from motion or misfocus, but that's still a 
whole lot better than what I
could get before.

So far, the only valid (to me) reason for such a huge camera/lens combo, is as an anchor, to keep from blowing away. Otherwise, an E-M1 with 75-300 would get your hit rate up to 80-90%

Delicate Moose

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