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Well, Jonas, I must say this is a very artistic image, in my humble opinion, with all those well composed diagonals. :thumbs:OK, take this one - which is not a great image or anything unique to the E-M5:
I post it as it is a trivial image where it was easy to nail the exposure thanks to the clever highlight/shadow blinkies combined with UniWB and all of that in a decent viewfinder. The artsy and great and fun images will come by time, for now I leave that for the more artsy and great and fun photographers here.
Fact is that I've never had a camera where I nailed the image with regards to focus plane and optimal exposure at the first try so often.
+3.>with all those well composed diagonals.
Did you count them? Nice shot.
There is a setting in the menus - Custom -> G -> "Keep Warm Color". By default it is on, and it will make indoor shots a bit too warm (even for my taste). Switch that off and you'll likely not need to cool in post... all of these are out of camera jpgs, with a little tweaking of exposure and straightening, together with a slight cooling of the AWB results indoors.
Right - off to bed . . . . certainly no buyer's remorse so far!
all the best
Jono
Yeah, it is interesting.Very interested to check the camera out.
fwiw I sold my p&s (Leica DLux4) and my FF (5D2). Will be selling the APS-C (a67), though the work-purchased a77 will stay at the office for official use. Only things I'll have is iPhone 4S and OMD. Though we may end up with a pair of them. I got tired of having a bunch of different stuff and in the end it mostly was to satisfy pixel peeping. The OMD with a pancake isn't much bigger than the DLux4. And the iPhone, while not near the quality, at least is always on me.OK pretty pathetic. But some stuff has to go like a whole system one of these days.
Excellent Steve - shooting just jpg means that a little underexposure seems like a good idea - I'm doing that as well. . . . . and I've switched off 'keep warm colour' too.JPEG using the kit 12-50mm lens and dialing in some underexposure for a bit of contre jour and slightly adjusted in Viveza for tone and colour. The 'keep warm colour' of the default setup can be seen in the water, I think I will switch it off.
Steve
Thanks ToddThere is a setting in the menus - Custom -> G -> "Keep Warm Color". By default it is on, and it will make indoor shots a bit too warm (even for my taste). Switch that off and you'll likely not need to cool in post.
:ROTFL:Yeah, it is interesting.
The Fuji is my primary for now.
The Nikon 1 is long lens stuff and P&S.
The NEX7 I really like and I haven't sold off my m4/3 lenses.
OK pretty pathetic. But some stuff has to go like a whole system one of these days.
I can't read his credit card number, definitely not sharp enough.Jono, you seem to have a home, and surroundings, with interesting stuff in it!
Thank you all for the nice images, and for the kind comments as well. Michiel, maybe that simply was an image to your taste?
Steve, like you I got the 12-50mm kit lens with the E-M5. Seeing your image, and a good one it is, confimrs that was a good choice. It makes sense having a weather shielded lens to go with the body.
Here are a couple more images. I used to shoot a lot in the streets earlier but not nearly as much these days. Still, I wanted to see how the E-M5 AF serves in these situations:
The guy above did his family, I did him. OK, at f/4 we have an f/8 and be there -situation but the Af worked fine.
I took a couple of steps towards him, got the image above, and a crop:
Above: I'm not really satisfied with the "sharpness" here... there is some motion blur, probably me, and that at 1/250 of a sec.
Above: No complaints here.
Above: A hasty situation. It looks OK here but checking the image more closely again show some motion blur (and again it was probably me) and now at 1/500.
All these images were taken with the Panasonic micro 25/1.4 and with the IBIS set to IS1. I'll have to look further into this.
Ahem... Do we need a separate thread discussing how to set up the E-M5 (and perhaps we can keep discussions about pros and cons with different system to the OM-D E-M5 discussion thread)? And you guys shoot JPGs?!
Cheers,
Jonas
Thank you - yes . . . my wife once threw something away (I think it was in 1994) :ROTFL:Jono, you seem to have a home, and surroundings, with interesting stuff in it!
Excellent idea - are you going to start it?Ahem... Do we need a separate thread discussing how to set up the E-M5 (and perhaps we can keep discussions about pros and cons with different system to the OM-D E-M5 discussion thread)? And you guys shoot JPGs?!
Cheers,
Jonas