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This photographer Robert in Wales has posted a 6 month review of the OM-1. Quite a balanced review and he makes some good points, like that bloom’in menu button on the left! I’m not sure if he is on the forum here.
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Thanks for that.
A very fair review, I’d say.
Many of us on here have I’m sure been banging on for years about the _advantages_ m4/3 gives in the depth of field area: usually ignored by FF owners, who just believe what they are told by others. Getting the whole of a rhino in focus (if that’s the photographer’s intention) is often possible at f4, compared to an FF system needing to go to f8, so it doesn’t only work for small birds.
An important relevant rider is, of course, that the FF system gives more _flexibility_ in dof - so if you want just the head in focus, then that may be impossible with m4/3. Swings and roundabouts, just don’t forget about exploiting the roundabouts!
I certainly agree about the importance of careful post processing to improve colour and grain at ISO 12k and above: I tend to stick the raws through Topaz Denoise AI, then twiddle shadow and midrange colour in the resulting TIFFs to get rid of the magenta cast in Capture One (which has fantastic controls for this in the Advanced colour tab), and I’m sure there are several other good alternative ways to skin that particular cat.Regards,
Mark
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Assorted legacy lenses, plus a Fuji X70 & a Sony A7Cii.-
The DOF issue is a myth. If you blow up an image from m4/3 to the same size as one from FF at the same aperture set on the lens you are, effectively, using and f number at twice what you selected. Final magnification determines the DOF in the image, not the sensor size.
Where m4/3 is valuable is doubling effective focal length.
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Not a myth, Harold, but a matter of what you mean by aperture. An iPhone X may have an f number of f/1.8 but the physical aperture is only about 2.4 mm. The angle of view is about the same as a 26 mm lens on FF format but the physical size of the aperture on the FF camera at f/1.8 would be 14.4 mm. That's why the iPhone provides a decent depth of field at f/1.8. You can't read across between systems that have different sensor sizes and therefore different focal length for the same angle of view.
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A very thorough and fair review of the camera . Totally unbiased . My only comment would be from personal experience with olympus is give it time you need more than six months to learn it ….Comment
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Agreed, an interesting& fair review - with just a little off-beat humour (is Wales really that wet?) ... even though, personally, I don't get the problem people keep going on with about the menu button position.
I was interested in his comments on battery usage as after my experiences in Costa Rica earlier this year where I was getting close to 2000 shots in a day on one battery I would have said that battery life was excellent. However I guess it must come down as much to how you are shooting as much as how many shots you are taking. Over the last couple of weeks in Canada I've been getting through roughly 1.5 batteries a day (close to exhausting both on 1 day) despite probably averaging less than 500 shots per day. The difference is that here where I'm shooting almost exclusively fall (autumn!) warblers and sparrows I'm often having to wait 2, 3 minutes or more for a bird I know is in a particular bush to show properly so I'm using both EVF & IBIS for long periods of time without actually taking any pictures. Amazing how that starts to eat battery life. Maybe will be asking Santa for an extra one after all!Comment
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I'm in line with you regarding battery life. It depends very much on how often you engage the IBIS, AF, and EVF/LCD. I will easily get more than 1000 pictures from a fully charged battery and guess 2000 is achievable, although I haven't pushed it to that limit since I tend to change the battery before it drains out completely. These 1000 pictures would typically be 100-200 bursts of 5-10 shots each. And I will leave the camera on stand-by most of the time. -
I’ve also had pretty good battery life. Maybe in the colder winter weather coming up it will be different. I do use the energy saving sleep mode, called quick sleep I think. It can be an issue if the shutter button gets jogged or pushed on to half press when carrying the camera on a walk - for some reason this seems to have happened a lot recently with my sling strap and it can run the battery down. Something to watch out for!
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Good review,did,nt have supply of grip,batteries problem,need triangular split ring for my grip strap attatchment,agree about controls could be better.Would have liked a disable shutter button mode on the grip to give me more programmable buttons,have to blank a pin off the grip to do it at present.Comment
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