Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-14 Thread Larry Colen
Another weird thing about the camera I noticed on my hike is that if you're shooting in "non-silent" mode, it doesn't just make the shutter sound with a speaker, there's some haptic bump to the camera. I guess if what you care about is whether it feels like a film camera that's nice, if however

Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-13 Thread supera1000
I'd be interested in your opinion if you use the hand-held hi res mode. I'm more than happy with my EM-5ii but the OM-5 has several features that interest me. I'm just not sure if the benefits make sense financially. Cheers Brian On 14 May 2024 4:43:48 am AEST, l...@red4est.com wrote: >It se

Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-13 Thread lrc
It seems that I'm not the only one, it may be that it works differently in video mode I did put another 500 frames on it yesterday on a hike in Malibu Creek Park. I'm starting to get a bit more comfortable with it. And it is a damn sight easie

Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
Lar I use an Olympus OM-D EM1 mark II as a video camera (only) but in conjunction with a very bright Fotga external monitor. The IBIS is excellent and one of the reason I got it. That and it was pretty cheap so reasonably easy to replace if it goes wrong or gets damaged. I use it on conjunctio

Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-11 Thread Larry Colen
> On May 11, 2024, at 10:32 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: >> 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

Re: OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-11 Thread John Francis
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > 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 > sho

OT. OM-5 first impressions

2024-05-11 Thread Larry Colen
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 bo