I had a chance to loan an OM System OM-1 mk ii for a few weeks recently, so I wrote down some thoughts on using it vs my usual Canon kit and whether it would tempt me to switch over.
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@[email protected] I think this one sentence really captures why, despite I love the idea of having such a smaller piece of kit, it’s not going to help me in my shooting.
“At around 800 ISO, things start to fall apart a little, higher again and you’ll really feel it.”
I do a lot of aurora and astro stuff, and whilst I have seen people come up with beautiful images of those things using MFT, I wonder how much denoise / downscaling they have to do.
Thanks for the interesting read though. 🙂
@[email protected] Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
There’s a lot of positives for the M43 system but that was a killer on less-than-optimal lighting days. Some days I was doing a comparison when it was overcast, to get a nice background needed about 1600 on the OM and about 3200 on the Canon, but the Canon was far more salvageable with some standard denoise (not the machine learning driven ones either). No matter how great their sensors get, physics still wins, sadly.
@[email protected] I was just Googling about what other people think of M43 for say northern lights shooting, wanting to find some samples, and I came across this link from OM Systems themselves.
Even when scaled down for website consumption, you can see that the sky isn’t really clean. And that’s not even getting to ISO 3200 yet. LOL.
@[email protected] I was just Googling about what other people think of M43 for say northern lights shooting, wanting to find some samples, and I came across this link from OM Systems themselves.
Even when scaled down for website consumption, you can see that the sky isn’t really clean. And that’s not even getting to ISO 3200 yet. Looks almost like shots I have taken on FF at ISO 25000.
@[email protected] It’s definitely a major weakness of the system, but I guess that’s the tradeoff really. The M43 cameras are great tools for some uses, and suffer for others. I can’t knock people for using what tools they have to hand for some photos it might not be best for, but I certainly wouldn’t choose M43 for astro work!
Thank you also for the video, I’ll give it a look later
