On 9/12/2017 8:14 AM, Frank wrote:
The killer feature of the E-M1 II would be 'pro capture' for me. In that
mode, you half press the shutter to make the camera take pictures in a high
frequency, only to save the last 14 or so if you press the shutter to
expose.
Sounds like a killer feature at first look.
I would like it for people shots and animals (birds for instance, capturing
the moments just before they take off).
Then I think about what I shoot. The samples promoting it, such as a dog catching a frisbee, are mostly shots I wouldn't
take.
Looking at a recent photo outing, there's only two subjects where it might have helped, a lizard and the bee shot I
posted. And, well, I got both shots.
With the lizard, I was done shooting and was about to turn away when it turned its head to look at me. I wouldn't have
been in PCap mode, and I pressed the button and got the look anyway. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22291>
With the bee, I took six individual shots over a 32 sec. period. The third was the winner. Would PCap Mode have upped my
chance of a winner, or just given me 84 images to go through, instead of six? I don't know the answer, just ask myself
the question.
On another forum, Jan suggested the use of Sequential Mode shooting for critters. At about 5 fps for low speed, with
C-AF or C-AF+TR, that might indeed have given me some better choices. With short bursts, it seems I might well end up
with something much like the PCap mode results. I tell myself that I'll try this. (I've still got a free MySet, see below.)
Any opinions Moose? (I noticed it doesn't work with Panasonic lenses
though, so you're left in the cold with the 100-400).
And here you've answered your own question. There is, at the moment, no other lens that comes close to the 100-400 for
me. The Oly 300/4 Pro may be optically spectacular, but has two huge drawbacks from being a prime, leaving aside size,
weight and $. It's shorter than the 100-400. For subjects that don't fill the frame at less than 400 mm, will a cropped
300 mm shot be even as good as an uncropped or less cropped 400 mm shot? My guess is no. Got a tripod, static subject,
shoot HR mode, maybe.
How about the 200 mm subject, where you can't back up? The 300 mm prime loses;
the 100-400 gets the shot.
I do still have my 75-300 Oly, but in addition to the lesser reach, which is a big deal for me, it's not optically quite
as good. So it sits on the bench.
The shots where, in retrospect, I might like to have had this feature, are
almost all with the 100-400.
Although my head leads with the Oly 12-100, my heart chooses the Panny 12-60,
another one that won't work for Pro Capture.
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There is also another problem with the E-M1 bodies. With them, Oly has chosen to drop the four MySets in favor of three
Custom Settings positions on the Mode dial. I imagine this to be a choice driven by marketing; the Big Guys have Custom
Settings on their Mode dials, so we need to be feature competitive with our Pro camera.
Unfortunately, it's a step backward for me. I push an Fn button, and I'm in Focus Bracket Mode with 15 slices. Press it
again, and I'm back to the settings I had. Press another for 25 slices. Press another for multi point focus with
C-AF+TR; press it again to go back to single AF point and single AF. It's simply quicker and easier than spinning the
dial back and forth. Maybe I could get used to doing that blind . . . (The setting is visible in the VF.)
I'm holding out for an E-M5 III with 1/60 sec. HR Mode, higher speed operation overall, retaining MySets, PCap Mode, and
with whatever new thing the Oly Elves cook up. :-)
Moose D'Opinion meets Moose D'Decision
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