Robert Watcher
Mu-43 All-Pro
The start of September is a time that I look forward to each year. Ever since my son Robert had his son Mason, 10 years ago - Anne and I have made a ritual of taken Robert and Michelle, Mason and Reegan - to the Western Fair in London Ontario. Fun is in the air and the colours are beautiful - especially at night.
All other years I have taken a camera or two with an assortment of zooms that cover wide angle to very long telephoto. . .
. . . this year however I decided that I wanted to go light and my camera of choice, was my Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42 kit lens. Granted it did limit me in some ways with regards to being able to get in tight from long distances as well the faster auto focusing of my DSLR's - - - but it was easy to carry around and provided me with video capability as well (of which I took lots).
I always use these opportunities to try out features that I never would on a paid job. And so I made good use of the Scene Modes (primarily Sport, Portrait, Landscape, and Night Scenes) for all shots - - - never once resorting to aperture priority or manual modes. I also made the decision to only use Auto Focus - even though I new that that would create a challenge in many scenarios - - - but I wanted to see how well the E-PL1 could handle them (or not).
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The reason that I am including this rather uninteresting image of us arriving, is because I am very impressed with the Image Quality and Dynamic Range from this SNAPSHOT. I was fully expecting burnt out highlights and burried shadows with this bright and direct midday lighting - as well as the white clothes that many had on - - - even in Michelle's really white top being hot by direct sun (in behind), there is detail throughout in the unresized image.
E-PL1 14-42mm @ 14mm : f5 @ 1/1250'th : 200 ISO (this is straight from the camera with one resample to web size)
All other years I have taken a camera or two with an assortment of zooms that cover wide angle to very long telephoto. . .
. . . this year however I decided that I wanted to go light and my camera of choice, was my Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42 kit lens. Granted it did limit me in some ways with regards to being able to get in tight from long distances as well the faster auto focusing of my DSLR's - - - but it was easy to carry around and provided me with video capability as well (of which I took lots).
I always use these opportunities to try out features that I never would on a paid job. And so I made good use of the Scene Modes (primarily Sport, Portrait, Landscape, and Night Scenes) for all shots - - - never once resorting to aperture priority or manual modes. I also made the decision to only use Auto Focus - even though I new that that would create a challenge in many scenarios - - - but I wanted to see how well the E-PL1 could handle them (or not).
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The reason that I am including this rather uninteresting image of us arriving, is because I am very impressed with the Image Quality and Dynamic Range from this SNAPSHOT. I was fully expecting burnt out highlights and burried shadows with this bright and direct midday lighting - as well as the white clothes that many had on - - - even in Michelle's really white top being hot by direct sun (in behind), there is detail throughout in the unresized image.
E-PL1 14-42mm @ 14mm : f5 @ 1/1250'th : 200 ISO (this is straight from the camera with one resample to web size)
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