RoamingScott wrote:
OMDS has a pretty unique problem in that their biggest supporters tend to be buying their last camera system for physical reasons. They need to figure out some broader market appeal.
A lot of people are buying them honestly. Their OM-3 was the top seller in Japan for a period of time and the OM-1 II is slightly better than that.
Image quality is nice and the computational modes make a lot of shots that much easier.
amci4 wrote:
A lot of people are buying them honestly. Their OM-3 was the top seller in Japan for a period of time and the OM-1 II is slightly better than that.
Image quality is nice and the computational modes make a lot of shots that much easier.
I have to agree. In Southern California, M43 has a strong following among young people. I am early 40's and among the "older" M43 crowd here. I started shooting M43 in my 20's and can't see myself quitting. Always a place in my bag for it.
Excited to see what OMDS brings next. The last 10 years they seem to be building tools just for me which I am quite pleased with
dalegaspi wrote:
"a reasonably well-exposed image from the OM-1 I/II that doesn't require much cropping and lifting shadows by more than 1-1.5 stops can look beautiful "
i love my OM-1 but i don't think I agree with this... i may have to do some experiments. the OM-1 sensor is not that forgiving in the shadows _and_ the highlights...my god especially with highlights...i can't use the OM-1 in situations where it's very high contrast (think early afternoon with full sun and clear skies on a football game) because either i have crushed shadows or blown out highlights...never a problem with full frame.
Maybe my expectations for Dynamic Range are not as stringent as yours but I don't seem to encounter the problem you describe. I will agree that if you blow the highlights on the OM-1 trying to recover them is not as easy as when I shot my Z9. I find recovering shadows to be much more forgiving. But if you expose correctly I'm not sure what more you could ask for. An example in direct morning sunlight :
sum1sgrampa wrote:
Maybe my expectations for Dynamic Range are not as stringent as yours but I don't seem to encounter the problem you describe. I will agree that if you blow the highlights on the OM-1 trying to recover them is not as easy as when I shot my Z9. I find recovering shadows to be much more forgiving. But if you expose correctly I'm not sure what more you could ask for. An example in direct morning sunlight :
i mean, yeah i guess you're right. it is adequate for a lot of use cases as long as it's exposed correctly. i can't imagine using anything else that requires trips with long lenses..like with this one...with 1000mm FF equivalent.
