And welcome back from me too, Joel, from a hardened gravedigger. I took the
view that there isn't much scope for gravedigging outside the graveyard, and
since my equipment is dedicated to the task, I might as well make the best
of it.
In other words (AG, please note, three separate words) I *have* switched
from E-3 to E-5. I have ZD lenses I am very happy with, which being pre-SWD
will not perform as well on m4/3 as on 4/3, and I don't see any alternative
to the ZD 7-14 in a different mount, so there is no small degree of
commitment to 4/3, and the E-5 would appear to be the last optical
viewfinder 4/3 SLR there will ever be (akin to the OM 3Ti in its day,
perhaps). It won't get any better than this. And I had the opportunity to
get a used grey-market E-5 from someone who made the move to m4/3 (he also
sold some splendid ZD lenses way beyond my means, so that was a big leap).
I am very pleased indeed with the results from the weaker AA filter and the
much better high-ISO performance. The LCD screen is hugely better, although
I haven't noticed any improved AF performance (it may be there,
nevertheless) and the art filters can be amusing, but the video capability
is of no interest to me. E-3 weatherproofing and solid build quality are
unchanged, of course. As an example (and picking up on Jim Nicholls' sedum
image) here is a shot straight out of the camera except for i) Lightroom
default sharpening, ii) cropping to 50% pixel dimensions (so it's 25% of the
full image area) and iii) JPEG conversion and downsizing for web in
Lightroom.
1/1500 @ f/5.6 with ISO 400 using the ZD14-54 with 1.4 TC at 76mm.
http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/50-9085226.jpg - 280KB
http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/20-9085226.jpg - 120KB
And, for fun, this grab-shot is simply resized in PS, but otherwise an
untouched "Large Normal" jpeg with "Dramatic Tone" filter applied in-camera,
downsized for web in PS. Chris B might like to provide identification of the
flying object.
1/1000 @ f/4.0 with ISO 200 using the ZD7-14 at 7mm.
http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/10-9095363.jpg - 270KB
Perhaps I will come around to an EVF in a year or so....
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 September 2011 06:20
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] Oly kit (or not), was Messing Around with Silver Effex Pro v2
I've gone beyond, I'm afraid, Joel.
I sold my E-3 and lovely lenses for a K-5 and assortment of lenses. I kept
an E-PL2 for a few months but decided it was merely diluting my creative
effort (and funding) and I've just sold that, along with its viewfinder and
Panny 20/1.7. My compact camera is the G12.
I decided against the E-5 because of the price, but the K-5 is an amazing
shooter in a wide range of conditions: its high ISO performance is very
good. It is also small enough for my needs as well as having a degree of
weather-proofing.
I felt a little sad at going away from the Olympus brand; I even considered
swapping my G12 for a ZX-1, but decided against it.
There is a lovely little panny with a built-in EVF, the G3, which suit your
purposes. It doesn't look as if Olympus will go that way, having brought
out a cheaper version of their VF-2.
If your kit is working for you you probably shouldn't switch . . .
Chris
On 13 Sep 2011, at 03:12, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> What's your shooter these days? I'm still mucking along with E-3, but
> the 410 seems to show up in shiftier places lately. Am I supposed to
> have an E-5 by now or have the hardened few Olympians walked beyond
> the graveyard? And when is somebody going to build me an EVF
> permanently inside one of those m4/3 thingies?
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