[LRflex] The Boys of Winter...
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: LRflex <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:01:36 -0800
I had a fascinating time, today, testing a friend's Oly OM-D (a.k.a. the E-M5)
out at Stake Lake. It's a camera I've been considering purchasing.
I am most impressed with it's performance, on relatively static subjects. The
auto-focus is quick, and the image quality is close to that of the DMR. but
with far better high ISO performance and a 16mp sensor.
So, what better test than the maniacs who race motorbikes and Quads, reaching
50 to 80 kph on a frozen lake?
Problems were that the finder jumped, horribly, when I panned horizontally,
across the field. This, I was able to cure, rather satisfactorily, by
switching to the high frame rate for the finder. Sadly, this then consumes the
battery much faster.
I'm sad to report that, at least with the lens I tried (the 75~300 f4.8-6.7
M-Zuiko) results were not impressive. The camera hunted wildly, trying to lock
on to it's subject , most often failing.
However, when the OM-D did get it right, the results were pretty good!
http://www.furnfeather.net/temps/TheBoys-1.html
CAUTION: This image is 1.1mb - so it will take a while to load, if you are on
dial-up!
But, for now, I guess I'll stick with my E-3, which performs much better with
these sorts of subjects.
David.
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