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There is also a rumor that the Panasonic 7-14mm lens will be replaced based on this item being listed as discontinued at B&H. This doesn't seem very likely to me, but stranger things have happened.
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Ok, I finally got a chance to test the E-M5 against my GH2 in dynamic range. I chose a high DR area, and then decided to see how they did when overexposed 3 stops and pulled back, and underexposed 3 stops and pushed back.
I metered until the clouds just barely started to clip in JPEG. The clouds were slightly different between the two cameras which led to the same shutter speeds working despite the 1/3 stop difference in ISO, but final images were right on in exposure (identical mid tone values for the 0EV EC shot). I then increased exposure 3 stops and then decreased exposure three stops. Did the same for each camera. In Lightroom 4.1 RC2, I then pulled back the highlights until no more detail could be recovered, and with Shadows, I increased black point until it didn't clip and used +100 on the shadows slider for each file.
This is the overall scene (this is the E-M5 mid-shot):
Here's is what the GH2 could recover in the highlights (three stop overexposure, pulled in Lightroom 4.1):
And here's what the E-M5 could recover in the highlights. The clouds are still too far gone to recover, but they were well over 2.5 stops blown, so it's not surprising...but the E-M5 kept all the detail in the buildings as well as the water, while the GH2 lost all of that.
Looking at 100% crops of the building area, you can see that not only did the GH2 ultimately lose the detail, but that it also lost all color data for some of the detail it could recover. The E-M5, on the otherhand, perfectly recovered everything but the clouds.
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I think most of us can agree that the OMD/EM5 is the biggest splash ever made in the m4/3 world since the launch of the EP1. The demand, hype, hysteria, and clamor for the EM5 has been a dream come true for Olympus.
For whatever reason, in MY opinion, Olympus' interpretation of m4/3 has been more captivating to me than its Panasonic counterparts. Olympus' cameras have more personality. Yet, until more recently, Panasonic cameras have always had the edge from a technical innovation standpoint -- faster AF, swivel LCD on the G series, touch screen, and the 16 mp sensor [vs. the IBIS in Oly cameras].
When m4/3 enthusiasts clamored for a "true" successor for the much loved GF1 (and groaned in pain with the launches of the GF2/3), I thought that Panasonic would surely have a winner in its hands with the launch of the GX1. Yet, even though the GX1 is a worthy successor of the GF1, there really hasn't been a lot of "love" for it.
So it makes me wonder what Panasonic can or should do to make m4/3 users excited about Panasonic, much like most of us are excited about the OMD? Will the GH3 be something that makes us go "wow"? And if so, what should the GH3 have that will make us go "wow"? What about a GX2 with a built in EVF? Is it too soon even to be having a GX2?
Whatever Panasonic does in the near future, I do hope that they will make a big splash. With cameras like the OMD, XPro1 and NEX7 occupying the headlines in the mirrorless world, I would love to see Panasonic come up with something that is equally newsworthy. 2012 might turn out to be the best year yet for m4/3 users.
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GF2, OMD (had the GF1/3, G3, GH2, EPM1, EP2/3) My FlickR!
Dr. Erik Meijs aka archeogeolab in the DPReview forums kindly gave me permission to share here a universal EM-5 preset for use with Lightroom 4.1 RC2 which he painstakingly created by experimentation after noting that the Olympus jpegs show reddish to orangish casts in shadow areas.
In use, I noticed that this preset imparts more "Olympus-like" color to the RAW files in Lightroom while also boosting local contrast. I also noted that it gives a similar look to my Panasonic RAW files, although it was specifically created for Olympus E-M5 files.
This preset is not meant to be the end-all-be-all of Olympus E-M5 RAW processing. Rather, it is meant to be a starting point for postprocessing images. He is planning to issue updates in the coming weeks, so take note of the version number!
The preset can be downloaded below this post as an attachment. To use it, go to the "Develop" module in Lightroom, right click on "User Presets" in the left column under "Presets", and choose "Import". After that, the preset can be applied to any individual file by selecting it in the "Presets" section, and can also be applied to a batch of files during import.
May 6 update: v06-05-2012 can be found in this post.
May 9 update: v09-05-2012 can be found in this post.
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B&h has the Leica 25mm DG Summilux in stock for $539 and free shipping. This lens has popped up in stock in a couple other places for $600. I don't expect it to last long at B&H.
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