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The animal detect works well with Black bear, deer, groundhogs, and Grey fox.

I shot about 8 hours of flying swallows with the E-M1.3 and the OM1 using Silent Sequential (20 vs 18 settings - actual 7-16) with stabilization priority) as well as SH2.  Only the E-M1.3 had any ...

The readout is 1/120 up to ISO 16000 where it drops to 1/60. You can look at the maximum flash sync speeds for the Electronic shutter to see this (1/100 vs 1/50).

The OM1 reduces the chance of getting detached wings in birds, but sometimes wing distortion can be interesting.

Thanks for the post. For me, either of the HHHR images are better than the Gigapixel.  I thought the water would be poorer in the HHHR and was surprised that it was far more realistic with the HHHR. ...

It can work well, if your original focus is sufficient for the camera to recognize the bird and you are using all or the large focus areas. I would recommend using it with the Electronic focus ...

There are still some artefacts using the Electronic (Silent) shutter. If you pan quickly then verticals will lean more than with the mechanical shutter. Very fast bird wing motions will have more ...

My tests with the OM1 and 300mm f4 lens (before the latest firmware) indicated that the single focus box on the OM1 using CAF covered a wider area than the single focus box with SAF. This is the ...

Possibly, though I am unaware of research that shows that bird feeders which are regularly cleaned spread disease in back yard birds. It may be more likely that bird baths that are not cleaned ...

There is apparently no way to set Center Priority for the small focus box unless thia was added in firmware 1.3.  I have it set for all the other larger focus boxes. However, if that is where you ...

Then you need a feeder that is bear/raccoon/cougar/squirrel proof. A 10 foot tall 6x6 PT post covered by an eight inch PVC drain pipe is sufficient. However, an 8 foot stepladder is required to ...

If you live by commercial chicken/turkey farms, then avian flu is certainly something that can affect the commercial growers.  It can also be a problem for water birds. However, songbirds and ...

It depends.  If you rarely needed a focal length greater than 200mm, then it would probably be worth the upgrade.  If you regularly shoot at focal lengths above 200mm, then possibly if you ...

Single point in SAF mode on the OM1 is a much smaller actual area than the CAF single focus point so it will have somewhat more difficulty focusing with less light, since it has less information. I ...

I should first indicate that I rarely use high resolution, since I generally find that the 20MP image has sufficient detail for my use.  However, I have used it for landscape and when pixel ...

It is actually very easy to show. If you have the TCs, just shoot a very detailed image with color, with both at the same distance with the TC at 1 stop (1.4XTC) or 2 stops (2XTC) higher ISO. Then ...

With a TC each pixel has less light, but the light is simply spread over more pixels with the TC. A 2XTC spreads the same amount of light over 4 times as many pixels as the bare lens or 1/4 the ...

You do not lose 1 stop of light. You have exactly the same amount of light on the target with the TC as you have with the lens without TC shot at one stop lower ISO setting. You have the same ...

B & H in NYC has it in stock and doesn't say anything about it being discontinued.  However, they probably would not say that it was discontinued as long as they have it in stock.

For that you would need the 300mm at a minimum, I would probably have the MC14 attached to fill the frame with smaller birds. Can you get within 15-20 feet without problems which you would need for ...