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One of the advantages of the new Olympus AIR MFT “lens-camera” is that it allows a new kind of shooting with huge tele lenses! The picture on top shows how you can hold the [shoplink 22138 ebay]300mm f/2.8 Four Thirds lens[/shoplink] without having to use the tripod. Something that would be much harder to do if you would have a “normal” DSLR or Mirrorless camera on it.
DC.watch posted a full set of images to show how it works (Click on it to enlarge):
Image samples shot with tha combo can be seen at DC.watch.
via photorumors.
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Who would want a combo like that with horrible AF-performance?
Using the wifi camera apps for a camera can be useful at times on my Panny camera but the lag between the camera and phone would make for a very poor user experience if that was the only way to use the camera.
the lag time on the Olympus AIR is much faster than on the Panasonic and newer Olympus non-AIR cameras. It’ll never be totally lag free, but it’s pretty seamless when you watch the hands-on previews.
I’ll have to check it out. That’s good to hear
Olympus are pretty new to this WiFi lark compared to Panasonic.
One of the nice touches of both systems is for example mounting the camera close to a bird feeding station and using the touch screen of an iPad to set the focus point and shoot. The lag is insignificant, fast enough to freeze a bird in that instant. The iPad has a nice big screen, pretty sure there’s a way of bluetooth tethering the iPad to iPhone to maintain web connection whilst using wifi to camera. iOS may have better control than other OS
Olympus still have EyeFi support in the (cof) menu which is a bit old hat now. I don’t know whether it is camera or software but Olympus do have slightly more lag than Panasonic, it’s more touch-think-click than touch-click.
BTW the AF performance is excellent, even continuous tracking within the frame works well on remote burst shooting at the bird table.
Excellent CAF-tr in burst mode with the 300/2.8+2x TC?…
… I strongly doubt that!
If the E-M1 can’t do it – why should the AIR be better?
I was just gunna say.. Cross type phase detect??
Cross HAIR detect.
you start taking photos like this and you’re gonna get droned.
need oss or ibis and power zoom, the better combo would be a qx1 with sel28135g f 4 or a canon IS telelens
Well the AIR has no stabilization, so forgoing the tripod may not be so great of an idea after all.
Pics seem quite sharp but this RPG style shooting would not fly very well in US 😉 ( or in France for Arab looking photographers)
Replace air with em10 or any camera with ibs and wifi. It will function the same, don’t look as cool though.
If your not going to use that lens the right way please ship it to me.
why are you showing us this nonsense when the price has been released for the Voigtlander 10.5mm f/0.95??? 🙂
oh..
It has?
DO tell!!!!
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6069483164/voigtlander-releases-price-of-forthcoming-10-5mm-f-0-95-lens-for-micro-four-thirds-system
(To be released end of this month, april 2015.)
Voigtlander? Wake me up when does bums can do AF….
I like this. I have long thought that Oly or Pany should make a tiny tiny camera with a google glass style EVF. If you think a tilty/flippy screen is good for composing at odd angles, imagine a glasses EVF!!
If it can be made to work with Samsung’s Gear VR headset, then that would be one possibility.
at first glance i thought that was Kai at digirev
We Asians all look alike?
Reminds me of this http://www.gifbin.com/bin/102010/1285930405_four-lions-bazooka-fail.gif
Off topic, but what’s this from?
Four Lions
That’s crazy, but actually kind of cool.
I would imagine that, particularly with some sort of custom shoulder brace (probably that includes a mount for the phone and eyepiece), this would be a heck of a lot more stable than trying to hand-hold, and might even work as a tripod replacement.
You’d have to worry about somebody shooting the guy with the RPG launcher, of course…
Where’s the new red dot sight? Throw that thing on there.
Officer, I swear this round thing at the end is a camera. Yes, I know there’s no screen. I’m actually wirelessly using my cell phone to connect and control the….wait why are you handcuffing me?
Only in US
Excuse me: Only in Japan!
Looks like Frankenstein!
ahahahahahahahaha……
Note to journalists… do *NOT* use this in a war zone.
April Fool’s Day was Wednesday.
Perfect for street shooting; on very big streets!
Discreetly suitable for crowd clearance 😉
Just so you know, shooting hand-held with a 300f2.8 on a dslr is quite easy and can be done by many nature and wild-life photographers. A smaller number – but still a lot – of photographers can even do it with a 500f4. Even a smaller number of them can do it with a 600f4 (fast shutter speeds needed as you can imagine).
We regularly shoot the 100-300/F4-5.6 at f/6.3 to f12 hand held on mft just like any shorter lens, (that’s equivalent to 600mm on a FF), probably as low as 1/150 with its OIS. The wild life may want a faster shutter but holding the lens does not.
RPG!!!
>Headshot…
Too funny! Where I live, you’d risk getting shot by the cops for showing up with that rig….
In USA you should ony use AIR in that manner if you have an instant death wish!
That teleconverter looks about the same size as the camera.
Having now seen the actual size of that 300/F2.8 it has put me off it.
Even the E-M5ii struggles to stabilise the Tokina 400 f/6.3 which is 13-inches long and weighs a bit.
A lens that size need lens stabilisation tailored to itself.
You’re aware that’s the *old* 300mm F2.8 for 4/3? Not micro 4/3.
He needs the EE- Dot sight to make it more awesome~
Sort of a bullpup design, I can see some advantages. But who would use such telezooms in narrow spaces?