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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... If that bothered me I would have closed down the aperture to say F/5.6 and increased the ISO - Both very easily done on the fly while in the viewfinder if you shoot Manual-mode.
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... Cheers! I am always logged in whenever I visit Flickr. Your camera settings are now displayed and satisfying my curiosity. Wide open apertures like F/2.8 still have great Depth of Focus Field, eh? And 1/2000s was fast enough to freeze the projectiles.
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... This set of your trip to Mongolia are epic! :clap::clap::clap: But it's a pity you are not sharing your camera info plus settings etc (Flickr) - I think that some of us in this thread would find such info helpful. But each to their own.
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... Having closely examined mine after it dismantled itself following a glancing knock, I do not think a user-friendly repair kit would be even remotely possible. And, if possible, it would be complicated and cost far too much money. There have been a lot of cases of the OM hood failing but I...
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    ..... I replaced my OM lens hood after it spilt its tiny ball bearings onto a beach with a Fotodiox C-ET-78 II. Perfect and secure standard twist-n-lock fit and I bought it from Amazon for £14.99 including shipping. All the main retailers like WEX etc charge over 40 squid!! However, because of...
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... Yes I thought some people here might find it useful to hear my good experience particularly as I know that the wretched UK customs caused weeks of delays at the time of Brexit, all outside of OMD's control. Btw, I don't have the Pro Service but I seem to get treated as if I have.
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... Like any professional brand-approved repairer (A J Johnstone in Glasgow for example), OMDS pride themselves in treating a camera product as if it was their very own and have very thorough systems in place. The long delays of weeks experienced by many in the past are all down to the bloody...
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    OMDS PORTUGAL SERVICE SECOND-TO-NONE !! My February 2022 OM-1 was picked up by DHL on 8th March Friday morning following packaging docs/labels etc which had been sent to me via email. It arrived back to me on 14th March Thursday morning. I had reported stain marks on the sensor only visible on...
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    Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

    .... September is a long way off! I had to double check the date of your post. If OM are announcing that now it does suggest that the Firmware improvements could be quite major or at least very significant. Do you find C-AF in stills to be lacking something? I use C-AF[M] most of the time and...
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... Which comes back to "...it's the photographer that makes the photograph". The camera is merely the tool which enables that possibility / potential.
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... I have highlit your quote in bold for the emphasis of my point in posting Ansel Adams statement. Your words hit the nail on the head!
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... Indeed. And that illustrates Ansel Adams statement, and my point in this thread, that it's the photographer and not their equipment which makes a great photograph. The equipment helps of course but it far from guarantees great results.
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... Regardless of differing percentages of images recorded by different tools, the fact remains that it's down to the originator to firstly have a vision and secondly communicate that vision in their resulting work. That is what Ansel Adams quote means to me.
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... Exactly! It is that simple and I am somewhat surprised that some photographers here are replying as if they don't understand that.
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    Is digital dead now?

    .... And so is the captured image file very different from the fully edited final output. Whatever camera equipment is used and however the images are captured and however the final output is edited etc etc etc, it is the human photographer who takes credit or criticism for the result.
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