On 5/24/2018 6:03 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Thanks Jim and Philippe. Appreciate taking the time to look and comment. Am
taking time I don't have on Sat to attempt to find and photograph a Juniper
hairstreak--never had a shot of one.
Will carry two kits but may need a TTL macro flash soon--try out the Oly E-M1
Mk11 with Panny/Leica 100-400 with Pentax T132 achromatic CU diopter and T32
flash.
That's would be my kit, sans flash, of course. :-)
Will carry Big Foot just in case.
Small fast critters are tough for this slow photog.
Have you considered techniques other than straight, single shots? With that camera and lens, you have a few options
(none with convenient flash, though):
1. Just blast away. Set C-AF and Sequential Mode (High ~=15 fps, Low~=10fps) and push the GO button for bursts. I forget
to do this when it would help, and regret it. It really does work.
2. Try Focus Stacking. No, you aren't going to use the stack, but it tries, taking eight shots, at what it judges to be
mid, closest and a far focus that fit it's criteria. I'm not a fan of Stacking in general, but it's effort to find
closest focus might pay off here. I've only had Stacking for a short while, since a firmware update, so haven't tried it
for this.
3. I've caught a few great insect pix when Bracketing a flower; bee flies in
unexpectedly, and gets caught, for example.
4. Pro Capture. Half press, and it starts making electronic sequential shots, throwing away the oldest if the cache
fills (LIFO). Finish press, and it writes all to the card. Later, browse to find the one half a second before you
realized it was perfect - and shot too late.
All these techniques burn storage space, but you get it back when you cull. I just leave 'em on the card; 64GB is a lot
of space, until it fills and is reused, but cull on the HD.
Put whichever one(s) you are trying on Fn buttons, to turn on/off instantly. You could store different combos in Custom
Settings.
Tricksy Moose
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