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Re: [OM] Happy Thanksgiving, a new camera

Subject: Re: [OM] Happy Thanksgiving, a new camera
From: Martin Walters <mwalters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:35:12 -0500
Chuck:
So far, so good (I'm using the EVF at its default settings). I'm still 
messing with the menus/configuration, so I've only taken a few shots 
inside and in low light. Yes, it's appearance is different from my OM 
finders (I don't have an optical/digital finder to compare it to), but I 
find it very usable.  Note that I have not given the camera any sort of 
serious workout (e.g., in bright sunlight), and I suspect that I'm not 
as picky as some on the list.

The zoom+manual focus is extremely good. I was focussing on text on my 
computer monitor from about 3 feet. At 10x the text is quite legible 
and, thus, easily focussed. As I mentioned, I cannot try it with MF 
lenses yet.

My initial reaction is that the buttons are quite small, but maybe 
that's normal for digital equipment (compared to what I have on a 4T).

Hope this helps.

On 24/11/2012 3:17 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> And what's your take on the EVF? (since, if I buy one, it will probably
> have to be sight unseen).
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 11/24/2012 2:40 PM, Martin Walters wrote:
>> Peter:
>> Congrats.
>>
>> Yes, the user interface options are challenging. Having been through the
>> menus on screen several times, at least the options are now more or less
>> understandable. Having done that, I then reset the camera back to
>> defaults. I'll make just a couple of changes and then see what I need -
>> in particular wrt manual focus lenses (I don't have my adapters yet). I
>> recognize how simple life was with my OM2N and 4T. I suspect there's a
>> lot in the OM-D's menus that I'll never use.
>>
>> I went mirrorless because I wanted something small and light. The OM-D
>> is that, even with the 12-50. I'd looked at the fast primes recently and
>> they are also small. And, the new sensor hits the right spot,too.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 24/11/2012 5:06 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
>>> Oly listers:  I've been mostly away from the list for several weeks due
>>> to work, rehearsals, and life.  I hope everyone who celebrates it had a
>>> wonderful Thanksgiving. For you Canadians, you always were ahead of us
>>> in certain things.  And the rest of you, I hope you had a great day anyway!
>>>
>>> My birthday was Friday, so we celebrated it on Thursday night with our
>>> Thanksgiving guests.  My birthday present was an Olympus OM-D. For
>>> several years a Panasonic G1 has been my "other" camera after my Leica
>>> M8.  The OM-D seemed to check all the boxes I wanted, and the
>>> drastically improved sensor made it a worthwhile upgrade.
>>>
>>> So I am now learning the OM-D's somewhat daunting, program-your-own user
>>> interface.  First results, with the little Panny 20/1.7 (40mm
>>> equivalent), have been very promising.
>>>
>>> My very first shot, a self-portrait in my bathroom mirror, turned out
>>> quite nicely, especially when converted to B&W.
>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/8198764512/in/photostream>
>>>
>>> The world's funniest Border Terrier doing her thing:
>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/8213422576/in/photostream/>
>>>
>>> Our friend Laurie carves her pumpkin pie. Somebody clearly wants some.
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220020.jpg.html>
>>>
>>> Our friend Carl took this one of me with my camera. Face detection works.
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220029+2.jpg.html>
>>>
>>> --Peter
>>>
>>

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