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EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

Started Nov 3, 2015 | Discussions thread
gary0319
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

cainn24 wrote:

gary0319 wrote:

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Shoot your 100-300 at 150mm or thereabouts, or maybe even a little shorter if you can. Specifically, f/5.6 for maximum center sharpness or f/8 for maximum overall edge-to-edge sharpness (whatever you deem to be most important). It's a whole lot sharper in that range than it is at the long end. In fact the sweet spot of most "consumer-grade" (for lack of a better term) zoom lenses, which you'd be close to in the above scenario, is going to hang pretty well with all the "pro" zooms.

Thanks for the tip. I went today and tried the 100-300 with bees and dragonflies at various focal lengths and apertures.

Best for me was FL between 170 and 205. At 150 the lens had trouble locking onto the subject when there was any distracting branches or weeds. Keeping the speed above 1/500 was best.

More tests in the coming days.

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Olympus OM-D E-M10 IV OM-1 OM System OM-5 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4-5.6 R Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ +7 more
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