Thanks for sharing you’re fave pix for 2022. My favourite pics btw is the bee in flight and the view back down to Lausanne. I have an issue though, with m43 being renowned for noise levels at high iso,why in hell do shooters opt for these settings. Example; Red Shanks wading and my least favourite shot btw, 2500sec f8 3200iso at 1200mm. These birds are hardly flitting about at the speed of light, so why not lower iso to 800iso and lower s/s to something like 800th sec or thereabouts, my maths ain’t great. With all that renowned OM IBIS at your disposal surely you could nail the almost rooted to the spot shanks with more vibrancy and less noise. Same applies to the bird on barb wire fence (I’m not a birder) drop down to 1600iso (2 1/3 stops) 1/1000sec s/s; you say you were waiting there for 20 min for liftoff, so get one bird in hand (optimum exposure on still bird) then prepare for the hopeful BIF (in the bush) at higher iso s/s. Anticipation and adapting to the situation at hand. I’ve been sitting on the fence re investing totally to m43rds, I like landscapes and portraiture and the noise component is a issue that I’m sure I’ve over inflated in my head. But with my little EM10 II and kit lens 14-150mm I’m loath to going up to 640 iso, majority of my shots being 200iso. I don’t wish to buy add on noise reduction plug ins, if I can’t do it in ACR and PS then I’m not really interested. (I have a full kit of Nikon APS with manyFF lenses.) and old school chrome shooter 32iso Velvia and 125iso Ilford FP4. Anyway that’s my two bobs worth, in no way am I castigating your work, it’s wonderful to see and enjoy you’re ironic commentary. It’s all about keeping an open mind.keep on shooting and enjoying.
Thanks Michael! I do often shoot slower for slower subjects, but most of the time I sit at 1/2500 as a default when there are lots of birds about as I don't want to miss sudden movement. The red shanks were a bit of a weird shot as I was in the middle of following some ducks flying in when I spotted them lining up neatly, which is why it's set quite high 😀 I tend to put everything through DXO PureRAW these days as I find it fixes a lot of camera quirks as well as noise, and anything up to 6400 on the OM-1 comes out looking more or less the same after it's been through. Certainly a big change from the film days when it felt "sporty" shooting 400 ISO Ilford (I probably still have some of that lying around somewhere).
@@robert_may Thanks Robert for response. If I do go down the m43 route I’ll definitely check out the DXO Pure Raw, seems a lot of M43 shooters have gone down that PP pathway.
@Michael Rayner In my opinion it definitely helps bridge that gap between M43 and FF in terms of noise performance. Only downside is that DXO tend to be pretty slow to support new cameras. But at least the workflow with PureRAW is easy as it's pretty much automatic for batches of photos. I'm not a massive fan of long-winded post processing flows myself!
Can you do a vlog like video?
I heard it has best ibis and autofocus for RUclipsrs
Thanks for sharing you’re fave pix for 2022. My favourite pics btw is the bee in flight and the view back down to Lausanne. I have an issue though, with m43 being renowned for noise levels at high iso,why in hell do shooters opt for these settings. Example; Red Shanks wading and my least favourite shot btw, 2500sec f8 3200iso at 1200mm. These birds are hardly flitting about at the speed of light, so why not lower iso to 800iso and lower s/s to something like 800th sec or thereabouts, my maths ain’t great. With all that renowned OM IBIS at your disposal surely you could nail the almost rooted to the spot shanks with more vibrancy and less noise. Same applies to the bird on barb wire fence (I’m not a birder) drop down to 1600iso (2 1/3 stops) 1/1000sec s/s; you say you were waiting there for 20 min for liftoff, so get one bird in hand (optimum exposure on still bird) then prepare for the hopeful BIF (in the bush) at higher iso s/s. Anticipation and adapting to the situation at hand. I’ve been sitting on the fence re investing totally to m43rds, I like landscapes and portraiture and the noise component is a issue that I’m sure I’ve over inflated in my head. But with my little EM10 II and kit lens 14-150mm I’m loath to going up to 640 iso, majority of my shots being 200iso. I don’t wish to buy add on noise reduction plug ins, if I can’t do it in ACR and PS then I’m not really interested. (I have a full kit of Nikon APS with manyFF lenses.) and old school chrome shooter 32iso Velvia and 125iso Ilford FP4. Anyway that’s my two bobs worth, in no way am I castigating your work, it’s wonderful to see and enjoy you’re ironic commentary. It’s all about keeping an open mind.keep on shooting and enjoying.
Thanks Michael! I do often shoot slower for slower subjects, but most of the time I sit at 1/2500 as a default when there are lots of birds about as I don't want to miss sudden movement. The red shanks were a bit of a weird shot as I was in the middle of following some ducks flying in when I spotted them lining up neatly, which is why it's set quite high 😀
I tend to put everything through DXO PureRAW these days as I find it fixes a lot of camera quirks as well as noise, and anything up to 6400 on the OM-1 comes out looking more or less the same after it's been through. Certainly a big change from the film days when it felt "sporty" shooting 400 ISO Ilford (I probably still have some of that lying around somewhere).
@@robert_may Thanks Robert for response. If I do go down the m43 route I’ll definitely check out the DXO Pure Raw, seems a lot of M43 shooters have gone down that PP pathway.
@Michael Rayner In my opinion it definitely helps bridge that gap between M43 and FF in terms of noise performance. Only downside is that DXO tend to be pretty slow to support new cameras. But at least the workflow with PureRAW is easy as it's pretty much automatic for batches of photos. I'm not a massive fan of long-winded post processing flows myself!