After the weight of my new (13 months) K3III in my handlebar bag caused my bike to fall over and but the Smart Function knob, I looked into OM-5s again. The price had dropped below my pain point, and since thanks to online shopping there aren’t any convenient camera stores to look at them, I bought on on Amazon, and if I don’t like it I’ll feel no guilt over returning it.
My one word review: Adequate My basic review of the Lumix GH3 was that I loved the size, was unimpressed by the sensor/image quality and hated the UI. The OM-5 is the same size, seems to have a substantially better sensor, and the UI is better but really makes me appreciate my Pentax cameras. I would not want one as my primary camera, but for something light and convenient to carry, if not use, it’ll work. One example of something that I do on my pentax bodies that I can’t quite do on the OM 5 is my nominal shooting modes are two stop bracketing, either nominal and -2, or three stops shot in order of -2, nominal and +2. First of all, with the OM, I get at most one stop per frame, it also always shoots nominal first. Another difference is that with the Pentax, one press of the shutter shoots all of the bracket frames at once. In daylight, the EVF, frankly, looks like shit. It is little better than giving me the shape of the objects in the frame. I recognize that there are advantages of EVF, particularly in low light, for manual focusing, focus peaking is nice to have, and other info, but for the experience of photography, not ready for prime, or even zoom, time. Also the camera’s biggest strength is also a weakness, the small size makes it awkward to shoot with, even with my tiny hands. Battery life seems mediocre, I’m used to running on Pentax batteries for hours, and this seems to be running low fairly quickly, but batteries are light and can be bought cheaply. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
