p.2 #1 · My proposed test of the 50-200 vs 100-400, 150-400 and 180-600/Z8
PV Hiker wrote:
When I am at a hide and birds are coming in, I'm dropping the shutter speed and ISO to get the happy clean portrait, when possible. I need to do that quickly as I am interested in action, conflict, interaction. This requires Pro Capture to not miss the moment.
I do have Pro Capture SH2 to "C2" and SH1 Pro Capture on "C3" with the proper shutter speed and exposure etc set up and updated when idling waiting. These are assigned to the two front buttons. Sounds easy enough... Not really.
I am at either shooting SH2 with 25 or 50 FPS at normal shooting mode. All I need to do is drop ISO and adjust shutter speed for exposure to get an portrait. If using manual mode in Auto ISO, just would drop shutter speed, ISO follows.
Bird comes in and flirts' around on perch and get some images at reasonable high shutter speed to prevent motion blur. Bird decides to stay there for a while and okay drop down setting for some nice portraits.
Now the bird wants to do something, but OMD camera will not allow you to get into "C3" Pro Capture because the card is still writing! ... Swear words to follow and rant.... Same when in custom mode and want to get out of pro capture quickly, you cannot.
The buffer might have improved with the OM-1 mk2 but a better design needs to happen!!!
Suggestion to OMD.... Take the M1X body and shrink the battery. Use the card side and put in dual card slots with faster write speed cards. There will be room. Have a processor that is dedicated to writing to the card. If this was done you should be able to hold down the shutter and never have a buffer issue. Okay... rant off.
I always believed to have camera settings ready for action to not miss the moment fiddling with the settings thus missing the shot or ending up capturing a blurry one with portrait settings. So, it is a balance of reading the situation and sometimes you just need to pick one and miss the other. Understand behavior helps. ...Show more →
p.2 #3 · My proposed test of the 50-200 vs 100-400, 150-400 and 180-600/Z8
PV Hiker wrote:
And exposure should be compatible. I find with the om-1 mk2 you should not be flirting with disaster shooting to the right. Back off and feather details get better.
In my experience, the OM-1ii has lots of headroom. I get best detail in, say, egret feathers by backing off the highlight slider and increasing whites to bring up the histogram. No reason to avoid shooting to the right.
p.2 #4 · My proposed test of the 50-200 vs 100-400, 150-400 and 180-600/Z8
Bob Kane wrote:
In my experience, the OM-1ii has lots of headroom. I get best detail in, say, egret feathers by backing off the highlight slider and increasing whites to bring up the histogram. No reason to avoid shooting to the right.
I second this. I often shoot with half-a-stop to the right (when the scenes are not dominated by important highlights). The post processing is done mostly in Capture One that is really good at recovering highlights.
