I am considering celebrating my new job by getting a u4/3 camera to carry on my bike, possibly an E-M5. I was poking around last night looking at the current models and a couple of them are up in the K3iii price range, if not more expensive, if you buy them new.
I did see a couple of bodies on KEH in the $400-800 range, but that still leaves the question of glass. > On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > 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). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> %(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. >> -- >> %(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. > -- > %(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. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com. sent from ret4est -- %(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.
