Olympus OM Micro Four Thirds camera!

Few from recent trip to Atlantis, Bahamas.

Cuttlefish wrote in post #16796399
Don't know if this has been highlighted on POTN.....

Long exposure problem with EM-1

http://www.seldomscene​photography.com …-e-m1-and-long-exposures/

Yeah, I'm aware - not really an issue for my shooting. It's a bit disappointing, though...

Z...

I just joined the "club" with an EM-5 (with PL 14 f/2.5 and OLY 45 f/1.8) and I have to say, I am so more than pleasantly surprised. I wanted a very compact travel kit (hence the EM5 worked better) and figured the IQ give up would be not too bad and let's face it, its all about compromise. Or is it? I own and have owned some of the best glass Canon makes and have been a dedicated 1D3 shooter for years. While the OMD doesn't AF like a 1D3, it pretty much does everything else better. The IQ and customizability makes it such a pleasure to shoot with. I've got the top dials configured in such a way that I almost don't have a need to get into the menus unless its a special situation. Certainly for a travel setup, its all right there at the touch oof a button. I suspect its capable of so much more than I have even considered but for now, I'm so happy with it that I am already considering switching my DSLR gear around a little more to afford the OLY 75 and maybe the f/2.8 tele-zoom.

Still loving the E-M5, and loving the Oly 17 so much! The colors and sharpness are just bananas.

I am curious to find out what folks use as a workflow for m4/3 images import. I usualy import directly into Lightroom 5 but I can never get the same colors as when I try to load into Olympus Vieiwer. However, loading it into Viewer first, exporting as TIFFs, importing into Lightroom takes a lot of time because viewer is slow plus tiffs are huge. Anyone can recommend a good workflow that preserves Olympus colors, sharpness, etc. without having to readjust each in Lightroom? I find myself doing more post processing than I would like to.

I'm importing directly into LR5...I've never even tried the Olympus Viewer. Someone over at DPReview posted these settings as their E-M1 preset when importing straight into LR, maybe try that?

EM1
Exposure: -1.70
Contrast: -60
Highlights: -11
Shadows: 5
Whites: 0
Blacks: 60
Clarity: 0
Vibrance: 25
Saturation: 8
Sliders in tone curve:
border between shadows and darks: 10
border between darks and lights: 30
border between lights and highlights: 90
Hightlights: -40
Lights: 54
Darks: 50
Shadows: -20
Point curve: Medium Contrast
Color:
Red hue: -12
Red saturation: -18
Red luminance: 9
Orange hue: 3
Orange saturation: -22
Orange luminance: 4
Yellow hue: 10
Yellow saturation: -9
Yellow luminance: 3
Green hue: -22
Green saturation: -12
Green luminance: 1
Aqua hue: -16
Aqua saturation: -36
Aqua luminance: 10
Blue hue: 3
Blue saturation: -17
Blue luminance: 6
Purple hue: 1
Purple saturation: -7
Purple luminance: 0
Magenta hue: -10
Magenta saturation: -6
Magenta luminance: 0
Sharpening:
amount: 50
radius: 0.5
detail: 20
Camera Calibration:
process: 2012 (Current)
profile: Adobe Standard
Red primary:
hue: 20
saturation: 0
Green primary:
hue: 45
saturation: 0
Blue primary:
hue: -1
saturation: 1

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Although "Exposure: -1.70" seems a bit strange to me... dropping exposure by almost 2 stops during import? I've never had to lower exposure this much during PP, I think it would create really under exposed images. I'll create this preset and see how close it gets to Viewer TIFF results.

I'm thinking of selling my Canon gear and going for an OMD E-M10 for a lighter more compact kit. Think of getting E-M10 kit with the 14-42mm EZ lens the 40-150mm and the 25mm f/1.8. Any thoughts? Would I regret it?

match14 wrote in post #16929414
I'm thinking of selling my Canon gear and going for an OMD E-M10 for a lighter more compact kit. Think of getting E-M10 kit with the 14-42mm EZ lens the 40-150mm and the 25mm f/1.8. Any thoughts? Would I regret it?

What do you have Canon wise? I played with the M10, very nice and compact, almost too small though. Great IQ, sold me on the MFT format but I decided if I was going to go, I wanted to go top end. I had a EOS-M, 1D3, and 6D with lots of lenses and knew that I would be selling all but the 6D and a couple primes.

I didn't want to regret "settling" for the mid-line so I returned it and bit the bullet and picked up a M1. No regrets at all on that, great IQ, in body IS, FAST shutter for continuous shooting, focus as fast or faster then the 6D, though not quite on par with the 1D. Is it worth the cost difference between it and the M10- not too sure, the M10 is probably 80% or more of the M1. For me, it was just a little too small physically. The M1 is still far smaller than my Canon bodies, even smaller than a Canon SX50, yet just had a better balance and feel.

Some would argue the M5 is the mid-line and M10 is below it. Build wise, I might agree, the M5 is weather sealed and a bit tougher construction. Feature wise, I believe the M10 has an edge and some newer features that you can't get in the M5.

match14 wrote in post #16929414
I'm thinking of selling my Canon gear and going for an OMD E-M10 for a lighter more compact kit. Think of getting E-M10 kit with the 14-42mm EZ lens the 40-150mm and the 25mm f/1.8. Any thoughts? Would I regret it?

If you are shooting sports/action with your 7D + 70-200/4 you may regret that move quite a bit. Otherwise I think you'll be fine. I have owned the E-M5 and the low to mid-level m4/3s primes. To my eye that set up outperformed my 7D with similarly priced lenses.

LoneRider wrote in post #16930215
What do you have Canon wise?

7D, 15-85 and 70-200 f/4 IS

mpix345 wrote in post #16930242
If you are shooting sports/action with your 7D + 70-200/4 you may regret that move quite a bit.

Not doing much sports so my thinking is the 7D is under used.

match14 wrote in post #16929414
I'm thinking of selling my Canon gear and going for an OMD E-M10 for a lighter more compact kit. Think of getting E-M10 kit with the 14-42mm EZ lens the 40-150mm and the 25mm f/1.8. Any thoughts? Would I regret it?

You will regret it if you shoot sports. The AF tracking on the OMD EM-5 and EM-10 are terrible compared to any Canon since the 20D. For most everything else, the OMD-E-M10 is very nice. I love my M5, but will never dump my Canon gear because it is much better for sports, motorsports, airshows, etc.

bsmotril wrote in post #16931333
You will regret it if you shoot sports. The AF tracking on the OMD EM-5 and EM-10 are terrible compared to any Canon since the 20D. For most everything else, the OMD-E-M10 is very nice. I love my M5, but will never dump my Canon gear because it is much better for sports, motorsports, airshows, etc.

I'd agree completely. Just got back from Ethiopia and only took the M5 (along with 14mm/45mm/45-175mm lenses). Its a tiny kit relative to trips I've taken there with just a 1D3 and 24-105mm which made it much easier to take around and far more discrete. I don't think I'd dump the 1D3 since I do shoot action still but if I were doing a portrait shoot, I'd be hard pressed as to whether I'd rather have the Canon or Oly in my hands, it really is that good.

E-M1 and 12-40mm f.2.8 PRO, five exposures merged in Photoshop.

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