You guys are crazy. You need a big frame on wheels on which you can
mount them all & then fire them simultaneously with some sort of
automatic device. Then you could spend the next week analysing all the
images so you can rank them in order of sharpness, colour rendition &
whatever else you fancy. Then you would be able to truly decide which
one (or maybe 2) cameras are worth keeping. The balance can be donated
to a charity shop.
For me, one camera is quite enough.
My tongue is stuck to a cheek now!
Alan C
On 07-Apr-22 05:30 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I still have my Olympus E-M1 (the original version in this line, which I bought in 2013)
… and its great grandparent, the E-1 DSLR from 2003. Although I've said to myself,
"Heck, I hardly ever take these cameras out anymore, I should sell the lot!" I
just haven't found any sensible reason to. The E-M1 in particular still works brilliantly
for most of the things I photograph and its extreme configurability/customizability is
amazing.
My Leicas have all had the ability to save a user profile (actually a few of
them) both internally and in an externally saveable format, and return the
cameras to their defaults instantly as well as re-instantiate a customized
profile just as instantly. You can also transfer those settings from one to
another of the same body easily. I really wish Olympus had done the same thing
right from the start.
(Note: I think the E-M1 has a similar concept of user profiles at least, I
should probably re-read the manual…)
What I did to save time (since you *can* do a master reset of all parameters on
the Olympus, at least on both of mine) was to create a checklist-cheatsheet for
all 197 settings that marks out quickly and simply all of my changes from the
default configuration. So when I do reset the E-M1 to its defaults, I just pull
out the cheat sheet and walk through all the settings that I changed as a
standard setup to reconfigure it to my basic configuration. Takes about ten
minutes that way, and without having to do any head scratching and trying to
remember how I had it set. I used the pages in the PDF form of the owner's
manual that list out ALL the menu options and defaults to construct the cheat
sheet: just copied them into a new PDF and edited that into the form I wanted.
Hope That Helps™
G
On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:07 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote:
As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that
the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me
to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body.
I was already finding that carrying a camera bag with my K5, the
60-250, and a selection of other items (generally one or other of
the 16-50 or 50-135, and maybe the 50/1.4) was getting tiring by
the end of the day, so I was looking for a way to lighten the load.
I'd looked at the Olympus bodies, and was leaning towards either
the M5 or possibly the M1, when Olympus decided to drop the price
of the M1X by 40%, making it only a little more expensive than the
M1 (and $300 less than Pentax were asking for the K3) for a body
that was specifically tailored for what I was most interested in -
Motorsports or wildlife photography.
So I jumped, and picked up the M1X and the 40-150/2.8 zoom (which
gave me pretty much the same field of view as the 60-250, which had
become my most-used lens).
I haven't done a great deal of photography in the five months that
have elapsed since then, but it's all been with the M1X. I've just
about become accustomed to the fact that almost all the controls
work exactly the way the Pentax controls don't (I have to turn the
dials in the opposite direction for many functions, the assignment
of the two thumbwheels on the body to control shutter and aperture
has the two functions interchanged, the lens release button is on
the other side of the mount, etc., etc.) Fortunately, though, the
M1X is amazingly reconfigurable - most of the vast number of buttons
spread over the body can be re-assigned to different functions (and
there's an easy way to swap the functions on those two thumbwheels),
One thing I have found out, though, is that it's a little too easy
to get yourself stuck in a corner. With the Pentax bodies all you
have to do to reset the camera to a known state is to turn it off
and on again. The M1X, though, remembers the state it was it when
you turned it off, and goes back to that state when you turn it on
again (although there's probably a way to change that behaviour, too).
Last weekend I decided I was going to stick with the lighter system.
I knew I wanted something wider than 40mm, but I wasn't sure whether
to go for the 12-40/2.8 or the 12-100/4. I eventually decided to go
for the 12-100, and add a 2x TC to use with the 40-150 to give me a
two-lens system of 12-100/4 and 80-300/5.6 (roughly comparable to a
range of 17-425 on my K5 - giving up 1mm at the wide end, but gaining
a little more reach than the 350mm I got with the 60-250 & a 1.4x TC).
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