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Panasonic vs. Olympus bodies with a bagful of Panasonic lenses

Started Jun 8, 2017 | Discussions thread
john isaacs Veteran Member • Posts: 8,444
Re: Panasonic vs. Olympus bodies with a bagful of Panasonic lenses

Michael Meissner wrote:

john isaacs wrote:

The big difference (for me) between Panasonic and Olympus is that Olympus will show blown highlights/crushed shadows in live preview, allowing you to adjust the exposure before shooting. This is the Highlight/Shadow option for EVF and LCD. It applies to JPG, so you might not blow highlights in RAW even if it's indicated due to the increased headroom. But there is an adjustment for this; I set it to maximum because I shoot RAW. I shoot a lot of concerts/events where the lighting can be very harsh, and use this to ensure that my subject is not blown out even if there are a lot of bright lights that are.

Well the G85 now has zebra patterns to indicate blown highlights. However my main desire is not to have to do fiddling on a picture by picture basis. I find I get better street type shots if I don't have the camera up to my eye all of the time, and just bring the camera to my eye, shoot, and put it back to my side.

Then you might try bracketing your shots.  I used to bracket a lot when I shot JPG, now I only bracket when I need to (HDR, focus bracket, etc).

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