biglouis
Well-known member
This has been a very useful thread. I am more inclined to get myself a gimbal head - or at least go back to using a monopod which I was using regularly at one point - and also look into a s/h 300fd with an adaptor.
My one concern remains the ability for the GH-2 at iso800 and definitely iso1600 to turn the resolution to mush. Tesselator is correct that with judicious use of LR and CS3 (and in my case Nik Sharpener) it is possible to recover a lot of detail but you can never get to super detail at iso1600 unless you are almost on top of your subject in my experience.
Another possibility is to bet on the next generation of m43rds cameras from Panasonic having even more improved high iso capabilities. I expect there will be new models pretty rapidly now given the hype surrounding the OM-D.
Anyway, once again, many thanks from all the contributors
LouisB
My one concern remains the ability for the GH-2 at iso800 and definitely iso1600 to turn the resolution to mush. Tesselator is correct that with judicious use of LR and CS3 (and in my case Nik Sharpener) it is possible to recover a lot of detail but you can never get to super detail at iso1600 unless you are almost on top of your subject in my experience.
Another possibility is to bet on the next generation of m43rds cameras from Panasonic having even more improved high iso capabilities. I expect there will be new models pretty rapidly now given the hype surrounding the OM-D.
Anyway, once again, many thanks from all the contributors
LouisB