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I run the Oly 4/3s 14-54 and 50-200 on my E-M5 with the Oly MMF-3 adaptor.  Excellent glass, excellent IQ, great value, weather-sealed.  Slow to focus, forget action shots, but focus (almost!)...

The Prius Hybrid doesn't run for long just on the battery, and certainly nowhere near one hour. My Prius (3rd generation) will flatten its battery after around 4 minutes with electric-only power at...

The heads-up is helpful, but not too sure about the blame... We've got used to what other manufacturers decided was good for us -- bang it on auto, no need to think about the camera any more.  It...

Those nice folks at LENSMATE also do a neat adaptor for the RX100.

Nice analysis, I'd forgotten about the dreaded swelling in the body problem...  The RX100 user manual tells me to expect the in-camera battery charge to take around 155 minutes; given the 1240 mAh...

Travis wrote: I um'ed and ah'ed between the XZ-2 and the RX100 for something to complement my E-M5 and replace my old Panny TZ7.  Finally settled on the RX100 (bigger sensor, really). I've found...

Wow, LS, touched a nerve there, did I?  Blanking the T contact proves nothing from your list (not that I claimed it did).  But it does show that the camera doesn't need the T contact, either to...

Hi Ron, great experiments, thanks!  Inspired me to see if the T contact was needed at all... So I taped a tiny patch of low tack masking tape over the contact on the (Sony original) battery,...

My mistake, I got it into my head that the NP-BX1 was a two-cell battery, when it isn't!  Argh!  I guess the good news is that makes 3rd party batteries and chargers somewhat more attractive...

Also new to the RX100, also keen to know if others have found good 3rd party solutions for batteries and chargers... AFAIK, a "proper" charger has three points of connection to a two-cell Lithium...

My better half is as right-handed as me, but automatically puts the camera to her left eye. She is "creative", I'm the geek...  So she also can't get on with the E-M5 grip, just a catastrophe for...

In addition to native mfts (17/1.8, PL 25/1.4, 12-50 kit, 60 macro) I run the original 4/3rds 14-54 and 50-200 on my E-M5.  IQ terrific, focus speed slow -- maybe 1 sec if it is in the vicinity,...

Hi Peter, just before we hit the magic 150 posts, I'd be interested to read your summary of what we've learned about the noise you see.  Not so much about the various advices to open your aperture,...

There is something wrong.  That kind of noise is what I get at 3200 on my E-M5 (and got at 6400 on my K-5)...

Off topic I know, but I've been looking for ways to express the 12 - 17 - 25 sequence, hadn't come across "half-stop differences" before (smile).  How are these "half stop", please?  Are there...

Been running the PL25/1.4 with my E-M5 and getting terrific results with the "single person in the restaurant across the table" use case (smile) (that'd be the daughter).  Knew I wanted the 17/1.8...

Thanks for that! Never thought to look at Leica... I've ordered their strap, looks exactly like what I want.

I run an E-M5, now with the 17/1.8 for walk-about.  I want to keep it in my coat pocket (yup, it just fits!) most of the time, but also want to attach it to a neck strap for when I might be leaning...

Hi YeoHoon I've grown to love my tripod (smile) so I can use it with a focusing rail for focus stacking to get the DOF I want with wide open apertures and avoid the use of flash.  It needs software...

I've also ordered this FOTGA pair, they look pretty plausible (smile)...