That video made by Mirrorless may convince some reader here to spill out the money for the new Olympus 300mm PRO lens. Impressive stabilziation work of the new Sync IS (sensor + optical stabilisation). Don’t think you can achieve such “handheld” results with any other lens on the market.
Preorder links to the two new MFT lenses:
Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In EU at WexUK. Fotosidan.
Olympus 300mm f/4.0 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus. In EU at Amazon DE. WexUK.
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P.S.: Thanks to the messenger for this!
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The codec is a bit rubbish though eh. Pity really.
It may be a youtube recompression though.
YouTube anti-shake feature can cause such video distortion.
It is suffering from normal Youtube compression.
To do it correctly with FHD material, you need to upscale it to UHD, then upload that UHD to Youtube and then just watch the FHD material. Doing it this way Youtube will not recompress the FHD with low bitrate but almost doubles the bitrate for the FHD footage. The UHD material is useless, but FHD is far better that way (still not same as original non-recompressed).
Is Vimeo better?
Yes!
The downscaling by YouTube from 4K to 1080p isn’t really that good. In native 1080p some very fine details would have been simply smudged by the lack of resolution. But after the YouTube downscaling often the 4K has some weird moire and aliasing artifacts. All in all, just avoid the YouTube.
In most cases normal people don’t care. If the video quality is “good enough” (which this is) then it’s more about putting something interesting in front of the camera. This setup can make it easier to do that.
No-no-no, it is not possible! It as good as shooting 55mm(unstabilized equivalent) with that kind of shake!
can anybody give some indication of battery life with the brilliant dual system?
Yes – it’s almost exactly the same length as a piece of string.
There are a few problems with this:
1 – It wasn’t shot at 4K with a GH4 so all of us with 4K laptop screens can’t enjoy it properly.
2 – It would have been so much better with a GH4.
3 – The E-M1 is useless for video. If only a GH4 had been used.
4
– The total light was completely inadequate and it shows in the
result. A FF camera should have been used. there are plenty of elite
bodybuilders who could have been hired to get the equivalent FF
equipment on-site and who could do the filming in 3 minute sections with rests. I
think there’s a remote body-builder control app for Android and iOS that
gets around the problem of having to try and explain complex technical
operating instructions, like ‘press the button’
5 – There’s
nothing new here, you have been able to do this sort of thing with FF or
Fuji for years. I have a lot of numbers I could string together in a
complex stream of convoluted self-serving gibberish to prove this.
6 – The E-M1 doesn’t have a new sensor so it can’t be used for anything. New sensor needed before take seriously,
It toke me to 4. to realize you were having fun 😀
The moment I saw 4K and GH4 I knew he was having fun.
You’re goood! 😉
Funny! But this video is still awful, but nothing to do with the ‘amazing’ Olympus lens IS or crap video coming out of the E-M1’s ‘outdated’ sensor.
Thank you for making my points for me so eloquently.
7. My Iphone w cropping, can do better. You want to reach? Ok, stick on a coke bottle def will do it. Make sure it’s the Classical variety.
1080P requires 2 megapixels. 4K is about 8 megapixels. Since the GH4 is obviously not useless to you, and video is your priority, why do you need more than 16 megapixels? I think the piece was not about 4K or 1080P, but about 300mm and dual IS. I do agree about the need for a sensor update, stacked BSI @ 20 megapixels for stills, but that issue is tangential for checking out dual image stabilization for 300mm. Maybe it is triple, if any digital trickery remains in use. I also agree that the EV was set a bit low, but I would disagree that the light was inadequate. The OM-D does not require a great deal of light at f4.0 for video. The way the new firmware bins the video pixels and does something VLOG-ish easily demonstrates the flexibility. I also agree about 4K. If it’s a priority, you need look hardly any farther than Panasonic. GoPro is very cool too, and does some amazing work with a very small sensor. Full Frame for 4K is probably overkill, period. Alas, there is NO native 600mm lens for A7R-II, let alone one you can get for $2500, so the full frame proposition at the reasonable, μ43 price point is mythical. No comparison exists. The GH4 is probably best bet. The other interesting test will be with the 100-400mm zoom, aperture compromise and all.
Bangs head against the wall – thump…thump….thump.
Oh, but he had a point! Just not sure where it ended up…
Ahhh – Mark – read his post again, with a somewhat more bemused attitude. Then I think you’ll see what he was doing.
As you seem to be suggesting that written posts are a good place for subtlety and irony, I would disagree. I am not your enemy.
Mark, please, it was a friendly comment. I was not suggesting anything, other than suggesting that the post by The Real Stig (that you replied to) was done in a facetious manner. I did not imply any further judgment on it (i.e. whether it was funny or not, or skillful or not) – other than that perhaps you might read it differently if you did so again. No offense intended whatsoever.
This wasn’t subtle irony. It was over-the-top sarcasm (in a good way).
“there are plenty of elite bodybuilders who could have been hired to get the equivalent FF equipment on-site and who could do the filming in 3 minute sections with rests. I think there’s a remote body-builder control app for Android and iOS that gets around the problem of having to try and explain complex technical operating instructions, like ‘press the button'”
I liked it. And photo-filming seals is actually one of the reason I will consider this lens 🙂 Thanks for the link.
I think you can! With this combination: Panasonic GX8 + Metabones Canon EF to MFT Smart Adapter + Canon 300mm f/4 L IS USM. And the lens-adapter combo will cost $1750.00 (not $2500)!
Have a look here http://www.mirrorlessons.com/2016/01/08/angle-of-view-photography/#comment-2449687533 for other spec comparisons.
That combination hand-held would make you sea-sick when viewing the results. Tell you what, go and shoot something with this combination you obviously have experience with and post the results so we can judge for ourselves.
Thing is: Olympus is doing electronic stabilisation in video (we have a small crop factor on video and this is used to compensate), just like the new D500.
So this is an example of what electronic stabilisation (in combination with dual IS) can do.
Still, the video quality isn’t perfect – hope that Olympus is improving on that with the new Pen F!
(GH4 with 100-400 and a tiny bit of shake but outstanding quality over this for me)
actually, they don’t, or at least, the IBIS can be switched to purely mechanical for video (or, to be more precise, stabilised only through electromagnetic drive motors)
Very nice! There is enough movement to show that it is handheld, which gives it a natural flavor, but very much more watchable than it would have been without IS. Cool subject and composition, too.
Has anyone seen any comparison to lens vs inbulit IS from oly at this focal length?
Something odd with the movement of the image within the frame; it’s like if you hold a glass of water and gently slosh it back and forth…like there’s an inertia to the image that lags behind the movements of the frame. (Sorry if that’s vague.) Kind of sea-sicky.
Perfect description. It’s jello effect due to rolling shutter. As the camera shakes there’s a lag down the frame as the sensor reads out line by line, hence looks like a jello in playback. Needs a faster read out sensor to reduce the effect.
Global shutters give a watchable handheld look, like when you see handheld in movies.
A piece of crap. And seal was not totally shaved.
Well, the camera’s weather seal should also protect the seals from the weather. Or maybe the seals are sealing the camera’s seals from the seas this season? The camera is sealed from floor to ceiling, so the teal sea water can not enter, but the real seals can, unless there are real reels keeping the real seals from keeling over. You feel me?
Yeah, I get your point, and I agree indeed. And yet the seal should had been shaved totally before the shooting.
Oh I sea this seal scene is sealed!
This is unbelievable. Handheld! Trying to decide between this lens and the Pana 100-400mm. Need to see a video with that one handheld with an EM1. As an Oly user, I won’t have the option of dual I.S., so it will be lens stabilization only if I go that route.
Olympus needs to fix its video quality because the image stabilisation technology it has beats all the other brands hands down..
Olympus needs to stop signing contracts with sensor suppliers that include terms dictating what they can and can’t do regarding video.
Or they could have used the 4x crop mode in video on the 40-150/2.8 pro with 1.4 extender. Which gives an effective focal length (in 35mm crop factor blah blah blah terms) of 1680mm at F4.0. Try it, you might like it.
It’s good. I regularly use the Panasonic 100-300 handheld, with the aftermarket tripod collar, which is a big help. The IS on the Olympus lens looks better, about what I would expect from the next generation. With some stabilization in post the video would be super smooth. It’s not a massive improvement but it looks significantly better. One caveat: we don’t know how many shots were discarded. Also, you’ll notice that the videographer is looking down and so is able to plant his elbow into his ribs, which probably wouldn’t be possible with a subject at eye level and above. That’s not a massive help at that range but I imagine it helps a little.
Strength is important to stabilization and is another factor that’s hard to judge from an online video.
We’ll need to see what the 100-400 looks like.
I”m starting to like this lens- but not at that price. I’d love to own all the pro lenses. My heart just fluttered.