E-M1: Ojito Wilderness and a limestone cave, monochrome

Bob Tullis wrote:

As I've said before, I really admire your landscapes. Part of that is your hand to the treatment, but in these I love how you depict the stark distances of the landscape using close proximity interest.

With regard to long exposure hot pixels, are you using the camera in a way that tends to heat the sensor (like, long bouts of long exposures)? I was concerned one evening doing that myself (HDR panos), but the results were clean - but that was just a one-off observation of the sensor running almost continuous for a 1/2-1 hour.

My exposures rarely push beyond 60 seconds (and on the rare occasions that they do, the fact that Olympus cameras now have a time mode as opposed to bulb, regardless of whether or not it's live, is a blessing). I typically don't do more than about 2-3 of these in a row before I lose patience with the subject and move on to something else, giving the sensor time to cool. Last time I made a decent exposure in this cave, it was using the 14-42 II at the same aperture, on the E-PM2, after about 60 secs, on a much cooler day (though the hot spring fed pool kinda makes the temperature a lot more constant in there). Lots of hot pixels needed to be cloned out.

Most people who really complain about the E-M1's performance with long exposures aren't using long exposure NR, but I've never considered that to be optional (except in the few cases. And for some reason the E-PM2 seems to get me more hot pixels with exposures of any length. I have live time refreshes set the same on both cameras.