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Hi all, I'm James, from Herts, North of London. I've been into photography for many years, carrying around Canon SLR's, then DSLR's. I got into M4/3 last year with a birthday gift of the Panasonic Lumix G3, which really took a weight off my shoulders. It's a fine small mid range camera, but it didn't have the power I needed or the low light / high ISO I wanted to stop having to pop the flash up and ruin the ambiance.
I was seriously looking at the soon to be released GH3 from Panasonic, but was offered an amazing deal on a nearly new OM-D body last month. At less than half the price of the GH3 body it was too good to turn down, and I'm glad I didn't. It's my first Olympus camera, but I hope not the last.
Currently it's sporting the kit 12-50mm lens, I love the macro mode and the fact it's weather proof, but the rest of my kit is Panny - 14mm F2.5, 20mm F1.7, 45-200mm and 100-300mm. I've not seen any of the banding issues reported for the 20mm lens, but it can be a little slow to focus when it's dark. Having said that, I never tried to focus it at ISO 3200 or 6400 on the G3 so I don't know how good it could be on that either.
If I'm a good boy Santa might bring me the 45mm F1.8 or the 60mm F2.8 macro, it depends how good I've been
Hope to join in on here as I've been doing on the Lumix Lifestyle site for the past year, anyone on there as well should recognise the nick
Bye for now, James
I was seriously looking at the soon to be released GH3 from Panasonic, but was offered an amazing deal on a nearly new OM-D body last month. At less than half the price of the GH3 body it was too good to turn down, and I'm glad I didn't. It's my first Olympus camera, but I hope not the last.
Currently it's sporting the kit 12-50mm lens, I love the macro mode and the fact it's weather proof, but the rest of my kit is Panny - 14mm F2.5, 20mm F1.7, 45-200mm and 100-300mm. I've not seen any of the banding issues reported for the 20mm lens, but it can be a little slow to focus when it's dark. Having said that, I never tried to focus it at ISO 3200 or 6400 on the G3 so I don't know how good it could be on that either.
If I'm a good boy Santa might bring me the 45mm F1.8 or the 60mm F2.8 macro, it depends how good I've been
Hope to join in on here as I've been doing on the Lumix Lifestyle site for the past year, anyone on there as well should recognise the nick
Bye for now, James
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