Olympus 100-400 - first shots and impressions

galenapass wrote:

Hope springs eternal.

I've got these magic beans, I'll let you have them for your cow

For those curious about aperture change while zooming:

• f/5.0 - 100mm
• f/5.6 - 140mm
• f/6.0 - 210mm
• f/6.3 - 330mm

So this is another big drawback compared to PanaLeica 100-400, which if I remember correctly is still f/5.6 at 300mm. So Panasonic starts 2/3 of a stop faster at the wide end and is still 1/3 of a stop faster near 300mm mark.

forgive me asking in you thread, has anyone spotted a difference in IQ / noise using different software to process raw images?

I'm seeing a lot of noise in OOF areas via LRCC even with ISO 200 yet the same images appear clean in ON-1 RAW 2020

I wonder if they need to update LRCC? (or I may be losing my marbles again)

Brian Wadie wrote:

I'm seeing a lot of noise in OOF areas via LRCC even with ISO 200 yet the same images appear clean in ON-1 RAW 2020

Isn't it because Lightroom applies excessive sharpening by default? Sharpening noise seems to be the default behavior (I'm assuming Bridge uses similar defaults).

Brian Wadie wrote:

forgive me asking in you thread, has anyone spotted a difference in IQ / noise using different software to process raw images?

I'm seeing a lot of noise in OOF areas via LRCC even with ISO 200 yet the same images appear clean in ON-1 RAW 2020

I wonder if they need to update LRCC? (or I may be losing my marbles again)

I've turned sharpening off in LR, now that I'm using the Topaz DeNoise AI plugin.

But before I started to use Topaz, I'd reduced the default sharpening in LR from 40 to 25.  I found 40 worked quite well with my Canons, but the Olympus doesn't have an AA filter so needs less input sharpening.

YMMV.

Mike

good thoughts all, my mind is a bit addled at the more with my cancer treatment so I must spend a bit more time thinking and looking at this, so I appreciate your help

one quick improvement by removing the adobe presets and using camera presets as default start point in preferences

A short demonstration of how the combination of IBIS, Digital IS and OIS works for video: https://vimeo.com/453068326/381972e606

looked OK to my old eyes?

What focal length please and is this hand held?

stevevp wrote:

What focal length please and is this hand held?

Handheld while kneeling, 200 to 400mm. So far my conclusion is that enabling OIS only makes sense if you want to keep the scene static, as it will fight against any panning you attempt, resulting in jerky motion (also seen in one of the clips, despite the panning being slow)

I'll do a more methodical comparison one day, but probably no sooner than next weekend.

I haven't yet met a camera or lens that did not require some form of "learning curve". So in that regard I'm optimistic. Looking forward to a little more learning.

Jim

User5456214890 wrote:

I haven't yet met a camera or lens that did not require some form of "learning curve". So in that regard I'm optimistic. Looking forward to a little more learning.

Jim

sometimes the problem seems to be that we have trouble learning that