I want value, not salesmanship Is the Olympus OM-D E-M5 possibly the best value for my dollar?

Started 6 months ago | Question thread
Trevor Carpenter
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Re: Ok now for the flame proofs.
In reply to jim stirling, 6 months ago

jim stirling wrote:

I see lots of folk posting alleged BIF shots in the mFT forum and I have not seen one that has any feather detail or is actually critically sharp. In fact as people are using the very slow mFT long zooms such as the Olympus 75-300 which is a pedestrian F6.7 , I would call them landscape photos that happen to have a bird in them. Oddly enough this does not go down to well in the mFT forum

Obviously fast moving small birds is just about the hardest task you can test your AF system on.

Jiim

That's ludicrous.These may not be high end DSLR with an F2.8 lens standard but they are as good as a lot of the DSLR shots that are posted. All these shots are fairly heavily cropped as well. None of these birds were hanging around either. I know nobody wants to believe it (why?) but shooting this stuff with my G5 and a 100-300 is much easier than with my E620. The speed of focusing alone destroys the E620.

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Edited 6 months ago by Trevor Carpenter
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