Introducing the new LUMIX TZ70 Travel Zoom Camera
David Thorpe gets pulled from Panasonic bodies because of the 40-150 + TC (David Thorpe).
Olympus OMD E-M5 Mark II: Just How Good is the Hi-Res Sensor Shift Mode? (Diglloyd).
E-M5II Video Stabilisation With 75mm F/1.8 Lens (Soundimagesplus).
Hands-On Review of the Atomos Shogun (BHphoto).
GF7 bag at DC.watch.
15mm lens test at DC.watch.
E-M5II test at Procameraman.
E-M5II – KeyStone-Feature (Pen And Tell).
Greeches: “Phantom 2 rigged with BMPCC crashes! Both survive….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZde4IUAXWI“
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Wish they would start shooting ads with the cameras they are trying to sell us !
lol, that’s the first thing I thought.. this ad was definitely not shot with this camera
And if it was, this would be pretty sad for Olympus E-M5 Mark II and E-M1.
Not only that when has a super zoom on a compact been that crisp? CMANNNNNNNN
I’ve been doing a bit of movie shooting myself with the E-M5ii
I confirm what is written in the manual – the E-M5ii cannot shoot a movie file greater than 4Gb; if the sensor overheats it will shut off.
I have not managed to shoot movie for much longer than about 10 minutes without the camera either terminating the file or the camera shutting down due to sensor overheating, on one occasion only 6 minutes. The sensor does get hot and it does shut down. The E-PL7 has the same warning and it too shuts down. The image gains a reddish tinge as the sensor heats up towards the end of the movie. The automatic shut down protects the sensor from permanent damage.
Switching to an Olympus because of the 45-150PRO is cutting off the nose despite the face; the GH4 takes far better still pictures than the E-M5i (I do have both).
The new camera has extraordinary stabilisation but it has very ordinary noise levels, a much lower dynamic range and poor colour fidelity compared to the GH4.
I cannot shoot the E-M5ii above ISO6400 because of unacceptable noise, it blows out highlights to the extent of needing a +/-3EV curve adjustment to approximate what the GH4 can do flat but losing detail, and it cannot see pale orange-yellow.
The 45-150PRO with MC14 would work perfectly well sans stabilisation on the GH4 but not as good an image as the 100-300 (because teleconverters do degrade images) and then so does the perfectly good razor sharp cheap little Panny 45-150/F4-5.6 only one stop slower but making up 2 or 3 stops with its OIS.
An OIS lens on the E-M5ii is often better stabilised than its own “all directions” body stabilisation, it’s good but it’s not that good. That means the Panny 45-150/F4-5.6 will probably get the same exposure solution using OIS as the 45-150/F2.8PRO on body stabilisation, on the E-M5ii but the GH4 would give you the better picture (very significant: you have to use them side by side swapping lenses). It’s a nice and handy little camera but it’s not the E-M1, and certainly not the GH4. In some ways the E-PL7 is the better camera.
If you don’t mind vignetting because it is 46Ø, the Panasonic 6-element DMW-GTC1 x2 teleconverter fits to the front of a lens. Intended for the PZ14-42 but I’ve had it work with the 100-300 (badly) et al; it does work rather nicely on the 46Ø Oly 45/F1.8
From Panasonic 35-100 f/2.8, 100-300 f/4-5.6 and a 300mm f4 to Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 with 1.4x converter, from 2600g to 930g, brilliant. 40-150 f2.8 is heavier yes, but its better capability actually saves more weight and all the trouble of carrying 3 lens in the end. Glad to see David make a logical decision for himself, and ease on his back 🙂