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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-29-2019, 08:53 PM
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The more I look into this topic, the more my head aches :hmm:
YI states that their M1 does corrections, so I presume that it corrects other brands too? Since TruePic VII (EM1/10) Oly bodies claim to perform the magic with Lumix lenses.. so perhaps the YI 12-40 is corrected in my EM10. But how about Sigma lenses, those reverse-engineering mount specialists: do they conform to the cameras' expectations?
The more I read, the more I see we're all in the same boat. Nearly every post comes from someone who believes they understand it all, but each has a slightly different subtlety that suggests we're not all saying the same thing. I wish these things had an "all corrections off" that I could be certain would do exactly that.
I'm not going to waste a bunch of time testing for variations though, life's too short for that. If someone has a definitive statement on this, I'd like to spend 15 more minutes on the topic and be done! :p
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-28-2019, 08:49 PM
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I use native m43 primes at 7.5/14/20/30mm then shift to Pentax A50/1.7, M100/2.8 and M200/4. I have zooms also (12-40, 45-150, Zuiko 70-300 FT) so I can play versatile or small/fast. The M100/2.8 needs a click or two for best results, but both systems are in-body stabilized (K200, GX7, EM10).
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Curiously enough my 'standard zoom' is the xiaoYi 12-40 f/3.5-5.6 :confused: In my tests with several others it performed comparably and I liked its range. What really sold me was that Oly/Lumix bodies (apparently) do not autocorrect off-brand lenses for distortions - but this lens matches up with the corrected shots! Sure wish it zoomed the Lumix direction, but now I have the 4thirds 70-300 so each zoom makes me think before twisting. Just kidding: I don't think I just twist and act like I meant that result :eek:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-31-2019, 05:00 PM
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GX1 + Sigma 30/2.8 at f/5
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-04-2019, 10:57 AM
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Skittish on a breezy day
GX1, cropped to remove my deck :)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-08-2019, 05:38 PM
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Thanks for the thumbses-up :p here's a wider view of the scene processed a bit - GX1 and 14-42ii
The previously posted image came from aligning the 3rd tree trunk with the sun.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-06-2019, 07:24 AM
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Lousy night of sleep - but a great fog-bound sunrise!
YiM1 and 12-40 kit lens, jpeg resized.
I look forward to playing with raw images. My GX85 shots had two major dust spots in the sky at sunrise :( but trusty GX1 +14-42ii also did nicely :)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-10-2018, 06:33 PM
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My Three 'sons' - taken with a K-50 :) cropped & re-lighted.
A brief point in time, as one (probably two!) must go.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-03-2018, 02:44 PM
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I am also a fan of the lighter 12-60; light, cheap in kit-breakout sales and sealed. My ideal range for a long hike, and I can add my smc-M 100/2.8 or the 40-150 Lumix for longer shots.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-20-2018, 10:21 AM
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Good fortune today :) sunrise within 2 hours of the vernal Equinox, and clear skies to check alignment of our 'standing stone'! I must say that's almost squarely on the 1980 'update' to Mt. St.Helens summit. Tomorrow says clouds and rain, so this will have to do.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-17-2018, 04:28 PM
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We had an amazing sunrise a few days ago, I stood in dew to shoot it but walked back in frost. I look forward to toying with the raw file soon :)
GX1 and 45-150mm, cropped a bit. Mt. St.Helens is buried in those clouds.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-08-2018, 10:56 AM
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I don't think I've shared this one, yet I just chose it for my new 'blog cover page. Curious.
GX7 and Sigma 30/2.8 on a foggy autumn morning.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-04-2018, 03:42 PM
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Our white Christmas came a day early - but it didn't melt! :D That makes two in my lifetime, the other being 2008.
GX1 and Lumix 45-150mm, slight crop nothing else.
USA East-coasters and UK folks, hang in there today and this weekend.. the weather outside IS frightful :o
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-20-2017, 04:01 PM
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Our local friend has grown up.. and grown points! :)
GX1 and Lumix 45-150, about 20 feet away - under their favorite 'food cart', the apple tree.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-13-2017, 11:53 PM
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About 110 years late on that one :p definitely check your tetanus-shot status when the sand is up!
Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. Wikipedia |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-03-2017, 06:43 PM
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Shot just before sunset, backlit, in the rain. Then reprocessed from jpeg using PhotoDirector 8.
Hopefully you can still tell what it is, after all that :p
GX1 and Lumix 45-150.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-31-2017, 04:16 PM
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A lucky snap with the GX1 and 14mm pancake -
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-24-2017, 01:07 PM
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As long as we're on fisheyes - here is the $60ish Mil-0838 fisheye on a GX1, same place as yesterday give or take a few feet.
Given the price of a used GX1 this is about $150 total - not bad :)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-22-2017, 07:14 PM
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The micro43 gear is close to all I need (like so many other users). If I could afford the sealed stuff maybe it could take over - but the EM5 wasn't my cup of ..cocoa :p and the upper Lumix line is in flux with screen and shutter combinations. Maybe soon, or maybe just Pentax.
Here's our local park getting psychedelic - colors are pretty accurate, the 5" of rain in the hills reached here with a lot of sediment!
GX1 and Sigma 19/2.8 shot 16x9, resize only (Vivid image setting)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-24-2016, 11:27 AM
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Great images here! I shall rejoin this club after Christmas. Keeping it simple with ePL6 and 12-60 Lumix, and a few adaptations.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2015, 06:12 AM
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I'm considering a G7 and doing more video, especially with the capture-8Mpx option from 4k that becomes a reasonable choice for those not pixel-obsessed. I owned m43 for a while in the K-7 era and it served me well. Here's a shot with my G1 and Vivitar 28-105 from past days -
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-29-2012, 04:18 PM
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I've had a G1 for a while, bought out of the Amazon Warehouse for a song. At the time it was distressingly similar in noise to my K-7, though DR was no contest. At times that swivel LCD is great to have, and the EVF lets me see bad WB errors in advance too.
Mostly though it's the circumstances that make the shot, not the gear - so it has served me well (though less often now that the K-5 is in hand).
Vivitar 28-105
and a Picasa collage with the cheaper 14-42 kit lens:
One thing I learned quickly is that you gain field by shooting raw with native m43 lenses, since the jpeg includes lens corrections that 'cure' things like distortion at the edges.
I actually have two G1s - my wife wants to learn more about taking 'good' images so figures if we have identical gear she can learn more easily. Wish I could have that K-7 back to match up with the K-5 :) |
