At Lake Monger (5km from the CBD). Used the GH1 and 100-300mm lens. Our swans are black. {} A mudlark - he kept walking out of the frame. {} The obligatory duck shot. {} Finally a 4-shot pano of the lake. Forgot to lock the exposure so some banding in the sky. {}
The water is especially nice in the duck one. What amount of zoom were you using on those shots? We have both kinds (m.Zuiko 40-150)!
nice shots. I must say that the duck seems the sharpest of them, the swan and the mudlark seem rather soft-ish. Did you take them handheld?, any pp after?, your in-camera sharpening value?
All handheld with OIS and PP in LR3 with standard sharpening - no added in-camera sharpening. The lens does 'waggle' a bit at full stretch and a mono/tripod would assist.
I shot the Panny 100-300 on an E-P2 at Hagerman Wildlife Refuge this weekend. Used a monopod with stabilization set on IS3. All shots were soft. But then I do not have the steadiest of hands. IS3 is stabilization in the horizontal plane as I recall. Shooting was from the drivers seat, winds were about 20mph gusting.
In general IS should be "off" when using mono- or tripod. Quote from this review. The GH1 uses optical image stabilization, offering three image stabilization modes. Mode 1 employs image stabilization at all times when the camera is in Record mode, and Mode 2 only uses the system when the shutter button is pressed. Mode 3 compensates only for up and down movements, to allow smooth horizontal panning. Of course, stabilization can also be turned off altogether, using a switch on the lens barrel.
