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First order of business: turning off LV and only use EVF. Mission accomplished! I'm in love with these menus. More stuff than it takes two minutes to go through! Next up: put on a nice strap!
Finally got around to taking my first pictures with the E-M1
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Naturally, the first pictures taken with my newest camera were pictures of my newest old lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f:2.8/5 cm on the Varex II b.
It's actually a great time and energy saver, just staying inside and using one camera to make images of another!
And you don't even have to put the strap on the camera! Maybe I'll post pictures of my camera strap tomorrow. It's a very photogenique camera strap, if I may say so myself.
Got a wireless flash trigger so that I can move to off camera flash. Ordered a light stand at the same time... Amazon managed to deliver a baking loaf tin instead!
The light stand turned up today... not a loaf tin in sight this time! I haven’t had a chance to have a play yet because my two youngest kids have stolen my camera and flash set up and are currently taking portraits of each other!
Finally got the 12-40 pro lens. A somewhat sensible buy because I was lacking a wide angle lens other than the 24-42 kit lens and the 9 mm fisheye and it was off 200€ (promotion for zoom lenses until tomorrow). The only problem is that the lens is too good ? at the long end it’s a competitor for my 45 1.8 and the minimal focus distance is absolutely amazing. Had a small shock when I tried macro with it and I heard the impact of the lens hood against the subject ? so my other non kit lens, the 60 mm macro has to proof itself too against this. Hope my GAS is stopped for a moment but a bigger grip would be great for this lens.
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Finally got the 12-40 pro lens. A somewhat sensible buy because I was lacking a wide angle lens other than the 24-42 kit lens and the 9 mm fisheye and it was off 200€ (promotion for zoom lenses until tomorrow). The only problem is that the lens is too good ? at the long end it’s a competitor for my 45 1.8 and the minimal focus distance is absolutely amazing. Had a small shock when I tried macro with it and I heard the impact of the lens hood against the subject ? so my other non kit lens, the 60 mm macro has to proof itself too against this. Hope my GAS is stopped for a moment but a bigger grip would be great for this lens.
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if that is the 10 II body, I can highly recommend the official Olympus ECG grip. Makes for much better grip and easy to snap on and off without a tool to bring.
Finally got the 12-40 pro lens. A somewhat sensible buy because I was lacking a wide angle lens other than the 24-42 kit lens and the 9 mm fisheye and it was off 200€ (promotion for zoom lenses until tomorrow). The only problem is that the lens is too good ? at the long end it’s a competitor for my 45 1.8 and the minimal focus distance is absolutely amazing. Had a small shock when I tried macro with it and I heard the impact of the lens hood against the subject ? so my other non kit lens, the 60 mm macro has to proof itself too against this. Hope my GAS is stopped for a moment but a bigger grip would be great for this lens.
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Oh, and I booted the Photo Story setting from my mode dial. It's now MySet1. What was Olympus thinking about when they put it there? And my two front buttons are (from top) Magnify and Focus Peaking. I'm thinking that I can learn to live with this m*th* f*ck*!
Just a pity that the focus peaking isn't as good as it is on Pentax Q. Oh, well... ?
I have ordered a Pentax-K to m43 adapter and a new strap this week. The adapter is so I can use my Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 as a portrait lens on my m43 stuff, but also because I have a reversing ring for it, so I can use it for close up stuff as well I hope - we will see!
Both items were ebay purchases from China so I won't see them for a month though.
He took my advice ... Now there are 2 goof balls here.
I have Magnify at top because its easiest to reach without shifting my hand on the grip, usually for wildlife so I need to be quick but stable.
I don't use Focus Peaking all that much these days except for when I do close-ups and macro.
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