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Welcome to the Weekly OMD & 4/3 DSLR Images thread.

This thread will appear every Monday (GMT approximately) and is open for submissions and discussions about images and processing techniques until the next Monday.

Please post ONLY Images from OMD models and Four Thirds DSLR Cameras!

Instructions: Images, any kind, any date, any processing.

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3. If asked, please share your processing techniques or technical details.

4. Please show the EXIF if possible. Please identify the lens used regardless of which camera was used to take the image. This helps people form opinions of the lens used with the body to possibly influence future acquisitions.

Thanks for joining and contributing this week.

Andrew (19andrew47)
 
I like the second Stew, a good conversion. Rich has that lens and loves it. I don't understand the first though as far as the snail traps go. Why??? It is not like they are eating holes in the hostas! Escargot?

Andrew
 
Really beautiful country, Dave. Nothing like walking a distance to get the photographic eye sharp. You chose some great compositions. Rich

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Nice effect at 7 mm, Andrew. I haven't tried my 7-14 yet. Right now, trying to figure out what I'm doing to make the MZ 14-150 II sharp sometimes and blurry sometimes. I added a simple grip to the E M5. Just a plate beneath with a post up the right side. It really improves the handling of the camera. Rich

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What a great set of images Rich. Looks like you were well off the beaten track in the back of beyond. I'm delighted to see you are getting out and about again. Stay well.

Slainte

Dave
 
Was pleased to see someone is still using the Leica Digilux 3. I hankered after that camera when it was introduced but couldn't afford it and now that I can afford it I have moved on to other things.

Like Andrew I am intrigued by the snail traps. I presume they hope to capture invading foreign species of snail.

Dave
 
Hi



I took this picture in our yard



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Harri
 
Red squirrels are such cute little animals and that is a great shot Harri. Our squirrel feeder is high in a tree and it is impossible to get a clear shot because of intervening branches. Managed to grab this shot through our kitchen window - our squirrel feeder was obviously empty.

Dave



 
Alas, I recently sold the DIGILUX 3. I need to pare down the collection, and already have other under-used sub 10mp cameras. The DG 3 has the ergonomics of a brick, though many fine features, and I dare say I might get the parent Panasonic L-1 in the future. The L-1 has been resurrected in the GX7-8 pair, I think.
 
Invasive snails are a problem in various locations, even to the extent of clogging intakes at cooling plants. Here, the snails kill oysters, an important water filtering creature. Boats transfer snails from one location where they're kept in balance naturally, to another location where they have no competition, and then they grow without check. These traps are an attempt to at least track the problem, even though there is no actual way to prevent the spread, merely slow it down.
 
I bought the full grip within a very short time of purchasing the camera. Add $300 to the price I paid for the body and now it was more money than the EM-1 that was released a few months after I bought the EM-5. Never use the portrait part, only the landscape part. It is a bit of pain though for changing batteries. Not using the EM-5 much any more, not that there is any difference in image quality but I like the feel of the EM-1 much more and am using it mostly with the 4/3 50 - 200 mm at the moment which needs the phase detect. Out of curiousity, since you haven't had the EM-5 that long yet, there is an extra small focus single focus point available that you can select instead of the 'regular' single focus point. I don't know how much difference it makes for what you shoot. I did use it for a while when shooting T-ball with the 4/3 70 - 300 mm. My biggest problem was the wandering focus point when shooting. I wouldn't change the point on purpose, but low and behold, it would not be in the centre any longer and I would have to move it back. Had to set one of the buttons to the home focus point so I could bring it back to centre with the push of a single button. I turned off the touch screen as well long before so I have no idea how it moved about on its own but ....

Andrew
 
Andrew, I wouldn't mind having an extra battery in the E M5, but too much money for the grip, likely 20% of the cost of the new E M1 MkII. I paid $11 for the basic grip, made in Faroutistan. I nearly drowned in the menus trying to find the set for the focus point size, a while back. I use the small focus point for BIF with the E 5, but I could find the setting on that camera. Also, my focus point is mysteriously changing positions, too. It's a gimmick I never used, and I just want it to stay in the center. I'm not going back into the menus until I recover from the last time. I haven't smashed anything in frustration since a child, but I have had that urge, several times. Bothering me the most so far: I haven't been able to set up a button to change metering from spot to CWA to Matrix. I change this constantly, and so far, have to go to the control panel each time. Do you know how? I knew that the camera did not have a professional level of control interface (i.e. not enough buttons and button combinations) when I bought it, and the test I wanted has been satisfied: The E M5 makes great pix. I've read that the E M1 has more control options, which should be so on the E M1 Mk II, I hope so. I also disabled the touch screen and live view and the IS was operating when shutter button was half clicked. Stopping these extended battery life. You say not much difference in image quality between E M5 and E M1, yet the E M1 has next generation processor, True Pic VII. I haven't been able to find detailed information on processor improvements and am beginning to think new processor names are more hyperbole than substance. That, and holding back improvements for new models to boost sales (like a pop up flash) is beginning to sour me on Oly, along with their epileptic movements on new product directions. IF... I buy an E M1 Mk II, it will likely be my last Olympus body. If I don't croak first AND if Oly is forthcoming with the goods. If not, I can be quite satisfied with the E5 for the time left. I resolved to use the E M5 exclusively for two months, then go back to E5 to compare. But, I was hired for a job last week, and used the E 5 so I didn't make any mistakes from still being clumsy with E M5. The E 5 nestled into my hand, with the FL 50R on top, and made excellent pix while not chiding me, but giving me soulful and lonely looks. I felt bad about having my way with her, then putting her back on the shelf, but I have a feeling I'll be back to her permanently, eventually. And, she will forgive my little fling, even though I'm not European. Rich

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Thanks, Andrew. After forty plus years, I still occasionally get that wonderful feeling of "Thank God, I finally got out of that urban mess", and pinch myself. As for the photo expeditions, unless I heal much more, and that isn't likely, truck springs now punish me too much for more than a couple of hours on rural roads. I'm thinking about finding a Toyota Avalon, a big, comfortable, old man's car, yet fast, agile and economical. I just hate the thought of giving up my trusty, ancient Toyota Pickemup Truck. And, an automatic transmission, even with six gears, is an anathema to me. Sentimentality about machines (including the E 5) is stupid, I keep telling myself. Rich

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When you think you've got some good pix, it makes it even better when someone else likes them, too. Thanks for your comments, Stew. Rich


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Thank you very much, Dave. I appreciate and share your delight. Rich

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Rich Z said:
Andrew, I wouldn't mind having an extra battery in the E M5, but too much money for the grip, likely 20% of the cost of the new E M1 MkII. I paid $11 for the basic grip, made in Faroutistan. I nearly drowned in the menus trying to find the set for the focus point size, a while back. I use the small focus point for BIF with the E 5, but I could find the setting on that camera. Also, my focus point is mysteriously changing positions, too. It's a gimmick I never used, and I just want it to stay in the center. I'm not going back into the menus until I recover from the last time. I haven't smashed anything in frustration since a child, but I have had that urge, several times. Bothering me the most so far: I haven't been able to set up a button to change metering from spot to CWA to Matrix. I change this constantly, and so far, have to go to the control panel each time. Do you know how? I knew that the camera did not have a professional level of control interface (i.e. not enough buttons and button combinations) when I bought it, and the test I wanted has been satisfied: The E M5 makes great pix. I've read that the E M1 has more control options, which should be so on the E M1 Mk II, I hope so. I also disabled the touch screen and live view and the IS was operating when shutter button was half clicked. Stopping these extended battery life. You say not much difference in image quality between E M5 and E M1, yet the E M1 has next generation processor, True Pic VII. I haven't been able to find detailed information on processor improvements and am beginning to think new processor names are more hyperbole than substance. That, and holding back improvements for new models to boost sales (like a pop up flash) is beginning to sour me on Oly, along with their epileptic movements on new product directions. IF... I buy an E M1 Mk II, it will likely be my last Olympus body. If I don't croak first AND if Oly is forthcoming with the goods. If not, I can be quite satisfied with the E5 for the time left. I resolved to use the E M5 exclusively for two months, then go back to E5 to compare. But, I was hired for a job last week, and used the E 5 so I didn't make any mistakes from still being clumsy with E M5. The E 5 nestled into my hand, with the FL 50R on top, and made excellent pix while not chiding me, but giving me soulful and lonely looks. I felt bad about having my way with her, then putting her back on the shelf, but I have a feeling I'll be back to her permanently, eventually. And, she will forgive my little fling, even though I'm not European. Rich

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I thought I might just barge in and make a few comments on the E-M5. … Sensor: the M5 is Sony and M1 is Panasonic according to Chipworks. Which provides the better IQ is apparently debatable. …. I find the biggest difference is the handling – the M1 handles much like the E-30, the buttons and dials are where I like them, the M5 IMHO the buttons and dials are all in the wrong place and I hate those small buttons on the bevel edge.The M1 also auto focuses the Sigma 105. .............. That said the M5 is a great tool and provides very nice files to work with. .............. Focus Point: on either camera that is bone on contention. The size preference is set in the Gear Menu A select AF/MF sub menu where the small box is found under [...] Home. To Assign this default to a button one has to go to the button function in the Gear B menu. This was a feature of the E-30 but with the OMD cameras I always assign this to a button because all mFT cameras are fiddly to some degree and the focus point will always wander. And pressing a button to get it back to the center is the simplest solution. You can use the SCP to move the position around. If you want to change sizes of the focus box then you need to use the pad to bring up the box then press the INFO button when you can use the rear dial to cycle though choices.. Not very intuitive.... I always turn off the mFT cameras between shots not to save battery but to prevent accidentally pushing a button or the pad or the dial … Never did that with the E-30 always let it drift off to sleep... I could go on but ....

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