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PART 2- This Week Through YOUR m4/3 2014.04.26 -PART 2

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I've only shot Panasonic M43 cameras (GF1, G3, G6), but I finally got an Olympus camera, the EM10. There were specific features I did not have on my Panasonic cameras that I wanted (image stabilization and Live Time/Bulb/Composite).

After spending some time charging my batteries and reviewing settings and the manual, I gave Live Composite a try. This is not the best use of this feature, but the location was handy.



Live Composite stacks images and keeps the portions of the image that don't change at the base exposure, which was 2.5 seconds here. The traffic changed and got stacked to create these longer trails. The traffic was stop and go, so the trails are a bit messy. I think there were between 10 and 15 exposures stacked here, but I can't be sure because the camera does not save that information.
Live Composite stacks images and keeps the portions of the image that don't change at the base exposure, which was 2.5 seconds here. The traffic changed and got stacked to create these longer trails. The traffic was stop and go, so the trails are a bit messy. I think there were between 10 and 15 exposures stacked here, but I can't be sure because the camera does not save that information.

I can see applications for more continuous flowing traffic or scenes with intermittent traffic that can look busy in a composite. Olympus shows star trails on their website for this feature, so that could be fun too. I'll definitely try this with fireworks and laser light shows.

Regards

Michael

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assaft said:
The boats in the first two images are heavily distorted. They were taken at 9mm, with certain parts of the boats pretty much on the edge of the frame. At such a wide FOV, everything that comes even close to the edges is seriously stretched.

Here is an example (from the same place). I'm posting two full compositions and then two corresponding crops. They were taken at 9mm with the house at different places in the frame. Look how distorted it looks when it is framed closer to the edge. The point of view is somewhat different so try to ignore that.
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I really appreciate you going to the effort to post the multiple versions and crop so I could see.

I looked at these last night just before going to bed and didn't see a whole lot of problems, so I thought I'd sleep on it and take another look before posting something that would make me look inadequate.

So, now that I slept and looked again I figure I might as well go ahead and post something that will make me look inadequate. :-D

I do see a little bit of difference but I have a hard time saying that it isn't caused by the different angle of view.

Wait before I click post I have to look again and see if I can see it...

In the second crop the wall looks taller and the roof looks narrower but we are lower down so that would be expected in real life.

What do you see?
 
I've just sold my Fujifilm gear (X-A1 and X-E2) and migrated to Olympus. This image was taken earlier today, when i was using



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my E-PL5 for the first time.

(The village is called 'Nävlinge')



//Eddie from Sweden.
 
You've really posted some nice shots this week Michael. Not that you don't normally.

I've seen yours with the slanted view before. Do you shoot it that way or change it in post?
 
Interesting feature - you made good use of it.
 
JeanPierre Martel said:
danijel973 said:
E-PL1, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7, Vivitar MD macro extender. Grain added in Lightroom.
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That's strange; the info about the Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 lens (which is not a native m4/3 lens) is revealed by the EXIF of that photo. Was this data added manually by some software? If so, which one?
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I entered it in the dpreview metadata form, the "title" option. The lens, of course, doesn't report anything to the camera.
 
Remided me of when I was at a country primary school and on our way back home we would play on the straw bales in the fields.
 
I haven't had time, this weekend, to read every post in these threads like I normally do, so this may have been mentioned, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw our leader's accomplishment.

I've been published doncha know...
 
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JeanPierre Martel said:
danijel973 said:
E-PL1, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7, Vivitar MD macro extender. Grain added in Lightroom.
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That's strange; the info about the Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 lens (which is not a native m4/3 lens) is revealed by the EXIF of that photo. Was this data added manually by some software? If so, which one?
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I entered it in the dpreview metadata form, the "title" option. The lens, of course, doesn't report anything to the camera.
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I didn't know we could do that. Thanks

Jean-Pierre Martel
 
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