Tony Rogers

Yes, true that. Me neither. I'm now going to contradict myself a bit. The shot below is one where I wish I had more subject isolation. The background is distracting and horrible. This was taken ...

The purple emperors have arrived early this year. They were a bit reluctant to come down to the ground so I tried to get a few shots of them in the air. These butterflies are very fast and feisty. ...

I agree. I used to think that a completely blown away background was the ultimate goal with say a wildlife picture but now I find them rather peculiar. That is not what it looks like to my eye. ...

Wow! Some cosmologists have suggested that the universe might have 11 dimensions but, as yet, nobody has seen more than 3 (+time). ;-)

Indeed. I would agree.

Olympus claims 6.5 stops of IS with this camera/lens combo. 6.5 stops is 2^6.5 ~ 90 times. That means you should be able to take a shot with an exposure 90x longer than an unstabilised lens. At ...

That's a fantastic shot! Well done. Was the bird really doing that or is that an electronic shutter artifact?

Interesting observation. I felt +1 was the best for quite a while but switched to +2 recently for swallows and swifts. I hadn't considered that the behaviour might be different for different ...

It is my opinion from using the E-M1 MkI and MkII that Release Priority C set to Off only affects the first image in the burst. It is more obvious with the MkI because it is slower. The first ...

Interesting results. Thank you. Can I ask what focus area you were using for the E-M1 MkII? I think if I were shooting this subject, I would choose single point or 5-point AF but I am not sure what ...

Very nice. Ok, we believe you now. I would say not at all unlucky but just take care for a couple of days just in case!

C-AF on the MkII is night and day better than the MkI. Initial focus is pretty much instantaneous and then mostly keeps up with the subject after that. It also does a much better job of selecting ...

It's only bad luck if you don't show us the pictures! No pictures = didn't happen ;-).

These figures from the review sites for shutter lag are not representative of what happens when shooting action. There is a huge difference between shooting a stationary subject and those that are ...

Bravo!

Cotswold Wildlife Park?

I think the best way to use Auto-Iso is in M mode. That way you directly control the shutter speed, aperture and exposure compensation and the camera adjusts the "exposure" by setting the Iso. I ...

Phew! You dodged a bullet there.

Today, I used the AF limiter with the minimum set to 20m and the maximum at infinity. I knew the swifts weren't going to come closer than 20m and if they did, I would never be able to follow them. ...

Well, at the moment, it is just gut feeling. In the middle of the session with the swallows, I noticed some rolling shutter artifacts with background trees so I switched to mechanical shutter ...