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jkrumm said:
I agree. I appreciate 1/8000 on my E5. You would think they could have it here, but perhaps this is not quite the "pro" model that some people are waiting for. To me it looks like a 620 replacement.

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John Krumm
Juneau, AK
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E-620 replacement would have an OPTICAL vf.. (Still needed for certain shots, where "spray and pray" wont cut it).
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Larry Lynch
Mystic, Connecticut

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
 
dv312 said:
It's all good

However I wish they'd increase the shutter speed to 1/8000 to match most DSLRs or include a builtin ND filter

Many times I found myself shooting wide open under bright conditions and the speed maxed out ;-(

Cheers, ;-)
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8000 would be usefull but I like that they have gone farther on the long end. 60 sec, Bulb: default setting 8min. (1/2/4/8/15/20/25/30 min. selectable.

This is going to be great for my star trail, night sky pictures. And with the multi bracketing no more expensive remotes like I have to use with my Canons.
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Brian Schneider

 
What do you mean by multi bracketing, and where do you see that?

Yes, it says it does exposure bracketing, WB bracketing, and Flash exp bracketing, but nothing that indicates it can do more than one of them at a time. The GH2 does all those things, too, but only one at a time.
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Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh is not the same as depth of field (DOF).
 
Hans Gruber said:
Actually, if you go to the Oly SLR forum, many over there seem at least as excited as us. I used to live over there myself.
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Yes, there is plenty of that, but the normal complainers who are never happy about anything are all out, too.
 
2 frames, "auto-gain" in raw. Is this built-in HDR?
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Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh is not the same as depth of field (DOF).
 
Have you really compared the current EVFs and the smaller Oly OVFs? Using the LCD screen may be "spray and pray" but the EVFs are fairly good. Not great, but fairly good.
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W Alex Stewart
 
Tim in upstate NY said:
Hans Gruber said:
at 43Rumors.

Read that list and tell me that this camera isn't lust-worthy.
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. . . Just the 5 stop IBIS is enough for me.
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Given the other specs, I am inclined to agree. Now let's just hope that it works as intended. I am a bit wary after all recent threads about various types of IBIS problems here lately. Five stops ... well, we'll see about that. But if it can give me 2-3 stops extra and still approach tripod-like (as oppsed to passable) sharpness, I'd be happy. What I also hope is that it won't cause problems at shutter speeds when it's not really needed so that you have to turn it on and off on a shot-by-shot basis. That would give me one more thing to remember, and there are already enough of those.
 
Many museums, particularly in Europe, ban cameras when the real objective it to protect paintings from flash exposure, from all those P&S cameras that make it difficult to disable auto-flash. (But they do not ban camera-phones!)

So my dream (not having used the flash on my E-510 a single time) is that museums would relax that rule for camera with no flash. But maybe they would just declare it a professional camera and worry about you copying the art works for commercial use ...

Apart from that, I am now seriously looking at this, the Panasonic GX1, or getting both for different situations.

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Smaller lenses, better in low light, more telephoto reach:
you can have any two at one time.
 
Bob Meyer said:
2 frames, "auto-gain" in raw. Is this built-in HDR?
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I hope so. I have been waiting for something like that. Would certainly help in some situations. A way of lowering "effective" base ISO for higher DR.
 
kermitG9 said:
Tim, you're obviously free to do whatever you want to do .. but I find it surprising that you (like many other people) get easily influenced by spec sheets alone.. which is nothing more than marketing. IBIS is a good example:

These manufacturer claims represent the best possible case.. a more relevant question would be how often do you consistently reach these stops and on which lens and that's precisely the info you won't get.

If Olympus claims 5 stops.. but you only get these 5 stops in 5% of the situations... than this whole claim becomes quite relative.

So I'd be a bit more patient.. and wait for the camera to be actually officially announced, reviewed .. and get a chance to test it first in a shop.

Never trust the manufacturer (and that's certainly true for Olympus) !!
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. . . Yes I'm definitely going to read those reviews and probably handle one at B&H or Adorama. I've enough experience with IBIS now to know that you're right about it not always working as well as the hype. I think the E-P2 was rated at four stops but in reality, I was usually getting somewhere between one and three depending on the lens and the situation but if Oly is now claiming five stops, I'm thinking that it'll be pretty good compared to what I've used up till now. We'll see.

. . . My best guess is that it'll be a few months before I can handle the price for an E-M5 anyway unless that 5DmkII sells really fast - which could happen. I may have a local buyer lined up already without even listing it. All I've got to do is make up my mind to give him a call. He's already lined up to use it for a wedding in April and I know that he'd like to own it instead of having to borrow whenever he wants it.
 
for the 4/3 lenses, what is the point?

More megapixels?

Just get a GX-1 and be done with it.

TEdolph
 
Brian Mosley said:
I don't think so. It's an artistic effect to allow blending of two shots. The Pens do it also.
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You might be right. Even so, it would be useful as a means of getting increased dynamic range when the subject is static and the camera on a tripod. Possibly, you might get lucky hand-held too, in burst-mode (if the multiple exposure can be made to work in that mode) and steady hands.
 
tedolf said:
for the 4/3 lenses, what is the point?

More megapixels?

Just get a GX-1 and be done with it.
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Built-in EVF, support for wireless TTL flash, and IBIS, to name a few.
 
BJL said:
Many museums, particularly in Europe, ban cameras when the real objective it to protect paintings from flash exposure, from all those P&S cameras that make it difficult to disable auto-flash. (But they do not ban camera-phones!)

So my dream (not having used the flash on my E-510 a single time) is that museums would relax that rule for camera with no flash. But maybe they would just declare it a professional camera and worry about you copying the art works for commercial use ...
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I doubt you'll see any exceptions for this camera, for the simple reason that cameras without built-in flash already exist, and AFAIK nobody makes exceptions for them. Besides, the most common policy in my experience is simply "no flash photography", and this is routinely ignored, not just by noobs who don't know how to change the default settings on their p&s, but by SLR users who ought to know better but are selfish douches.

Anyway, whatever the reasons for the policy -- physical protection of delicate works, copyright, creation of a more peaceful environment -- it doesn't make sense for museums to try to manage lists of cameras lacking flashes. Most already seem to have enough trouble enforcing their relatively straightforward policies.
BJL said:
Apart from that, I am now seriously looking at this, the Panasonic GX1, or getting both for different situations.
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I am very interested in this camera, too. Nostalgia doesn't have much to do with it, though I do love the older SLR form factor -- but the feature set his highly appealing.
 
BJL said:
Many museums, particularly in Europe, ban cameras when the real objective it to protect paintings from flash exposure, from all those P&S cameras that make it difficult to disable auto-flash. (But they do not ban camera-phones!)
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Protecting paintings may be one of their concerns, but excessive light exposure is only one of several reasons for such bans. There are also the annoyance factor for other patrons and the security issues.

I am a regular photographer in the UK's National Archives at Kew near London. There is no camera ban there but there is a ban on flash and tripods (people tend to fall over them and threaten to sue). Until recently you had to apply for a special photography sticker to be added to your reader's ticket. When I applied for this some time ago I had to sit through a boring lecture on why there was a flash ban. I pointed out that the main camera I use for document copying is a small sensor one with a built in flash. I suggested that before issuing me with the aproved photographer sticker that they should test that I knew how to make an exposure without flash. The sheer technicality of this suggestion frightened them and they admitted that most archives and museums prefer to operate an outright ban on photographic devices simply because their staff do not understand them.

Many such places have a long way to go before logic prevails... :-(
 
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