FlyPenFly wrote:
Maybe Olympus wants you to not chimp?
The OMD has forced me to chimp less simply because it crashes so much if I do when using an Eye-Fi card.
Well I've only been out with mine this weekend but I find I really didn't chimp much; being able to view highlights/shadows in real time in the EVF is a revelation. My biggest concern with the OM-D was the EVF and while people said it was "a pretty good EVF" I though... Yeah okay. Now that I've actually used it while out, I find it's a pretty good EVF I'm really not missing the OVF that I've been using for years and I like all the options it opens up.
I was just referring to the poster who wants the auto-chimp on.
The EVF while not as massive as the NEX-7 and not as high tech, is currently a better implementation. Sony really needs to allow an option for "Stop making everything super contrasty and blocking shadows in indoor light" settings for the EVF.
There's currently a way to work around it by futzing with the JPEG settings but then you have to turn on other settings that messes it up.
My new silver body, OMD, came with this quarentee card. Looks like a return, repair etc. I plan to talk to the dealer about it tomorrow or Wed. What do others think ?
Harry Palmer
Kingfishphoto wrote:
Anyone looking for OMD kits, bodies and batteries ? Today 7/31/12 at 2PM, Dans Camera City in Allentown, PA. had:
14 batteries
4 kits
4 bodies
I do not know the colors, lenses, etc. danscameracity.com , Phone 610-434-2313 .
Good luck
Harry Palmer
Thanks! Called Dan's Camera City today to get a spare battery shipped. Then called Olympus and canceled the order I had with them since May....
Yeah, I don't think the tiny baby-bodied OM-D without grip is a design flaw as someone called it. While I also wouldn't want to use the camera without it's grip all one needs to do is read a few threads here in order to realize some people actually like to handle their cameras as I do a typical deck of cards. It just seems to be a preference thing. Most of us don't understand them and most of them don't understand us.
So it seems Olympus was actually quite ingenious by doing it the way they did. I do however agree that they should have made battery access better/easier with the grip on.
Now, if you wanna discuss an actual design flaw maybe we could talk about the off-centered tripod socket?
Jman13 wrote:
No...the memory card slot is on the side, and is unhindered by either the horizontal grip or the full horizontal/vertical combo.
Pretty cool. Thanks!
Bifurcator wrote:
Yeah, I don't think the tiny baby-bodied OM-D without grip is a design flaw as someone called it. While I also wouldn't want to use the camera without it's grip all one needs to do is read a few threads here in order to realize some people actually like to handle their cameras as I do a typical deck of cards. It just seems to be a preference thing. Most of us don't understand them and most of them don't understand us.
So it seems Olympus was actually quite ingenious by doing it the way they did. I do however agree that they should have made battery access better/easier with the grip on....Show more →
Why the hell buy a small camera and make it larger? I mean, the only reason to get an MFT camera is smallness, right? To me, the E-M5 body is perfect, and I do have large hands.
I agree. Also, the 2-part grip is a very clever idea. I just wished that they had priced it more reasonably - like $200 instead of $300 ... or sell each part of the grip separately at $150 each. I believe most people (me included) want just the horizontal grip and not the vertical grip.
Bifurcator wrote:
Yeah, I don't think the tiny baby-bodied OM-D without grip is a design flaw as someone called it. While I also wouldn't want to use the camera without it's grip all one needs to do is read a few threads here in order to realize some people actually like to handle their cameras as I do a typical deck of cards. It just seems to be a preference thing. Most of us don't understand them and most of them don't understand us.
So it seems Olympus was actually quite ingenious by doing it the way they did. I do however agree that they should have made battery access better/easier with the grip on.
Now, if you wanna discuss an actual design flaw maybe we could talk about the off-centered tripod socket? ...Show more →
Dumb question about legacy lenses. I put an old OM lens on my new adapter for the OM-D and all I get is a black VF. Can't seem to see a setting I need to enable. What's the trick?
Makten wrote:
Why the hell buy a small camera and make it larger? I mean, the only reason to get an MFT camera is smallness, right? To me, the E-M5 body is perfect, and I do have large hands.
For me the only reason to get µ4/3 was lens adaptation and primo (or extra-primo hacked) video. See the difference? If the D700, D800, D3, D4, 1Dmk3 or 1Dx could adapt all the lenses my µ4/3 does I would change over in a heartbeat. I probably would have gone with Sony (another evil junk maker - like Panasonic) had the Nex been released prior to the GH1+hack (depending). I've kinda given up on the video thing but I stay with µ4/3 even still, because of my 20-some adapters, all of the extra rigging I have for the GH1/GH2, and the fact that the Sony is a lamer shape with Disney menus.
I totally want a mirrorless (shallow registration) FF, APS-H, APS-C, or µ4/3 (in that order) with a D4 or 1Dx body style and the functionality of the same. Size and weight savings are totally lost on me. I don't even understand others who like that sortta thing. It's just weird to me. I guess you've read my snide (but accurate IMHO) remarks designating such users as weight-wimps in the past? Those who think saving an ounce here or there is going to save them from some kind of fatigue... bla! Or that the GH1/EP3 w/100-300 is any smaller than a K-5 with the same... heh!
I can understand compacts in a girl's purse or in a guy's pocket. But I don't get buying µ4/3 for size and weight savings when with alt glass (and even many native lenses) they weigh about the same and pretty much take up the same amount of space. With only native lenses? Sure, recently there are a few nice native lenses but at release, no, they almost all sucked arse IMO - and there still aren't nearly enough good ones. So why did people buy it? I can't speak for them and I'm at a loss to even try. In my case it was the video crowd adapting good glass and using the GH1 (and later the GH2) as a substitute for a $15,000 video camera that attracted and eventually sold me on the purchase. The size and weight could have easily been the same as the Red ONE and I still would have gone for it.
You have either amazing physique, or have never gone serious mountain biking with SLR gear. It gets heavy after a while and more annoying to carry than useful.
Even in normal travels, I just dont want the overall bulk of an SLR system. OMD and prime native lens are small, great IQ, unobtrusive, and quiet.
I am 6 ft, 207 lb in shape, but why should I carry bulky gear for no extremely overwhelming benefit? ( for my shooting).
When hobby turns to hassle, it is time to reasses the situation.
I plan to keep my DSLR for some siuations, but I am expecting it will be gathering more dust than photos.
Totally agree CPUTEQ. When I was hiking the jungles of Costa Rica, I was cursing my A850 and lenses even a comfortable secure backpack.
I'm actually planning to sell my DSLR, I just don't see the need for FF any more at this point. Sure it's the only reasonable way to achieve some certain distance wide shallow DoF looks you can get from a 35 or 24 F1.4 but that's about it. I don't need 36mpx and it sounds like a pain to manage those files on my RAID SSD.
Hrow wrote:
To have to pay $300 to correct a design flaw (almost certainly forced by the marketing people bent on reducing the size as much as possible) is a bit irritating, especially since I will probably never use the bottom part of grip so at least half of my money is wasted. End of rant.
It's a shame you couldn't wait for the RRS plate/grip combo...
I'm really not missing the OVF that I've been using for years and I like all the options it opens up.
I mean, the only reason to get an MFT camera is smallness, right? To me, the E-M5 body is perfect, and I do have large hands.