Tell me I am crazy or give me your experience.. (Page 4): I'm with Dennis and MadMike. Get Sony RX10 IV or the Penny near equivalent. One camera, one lens, very fine iQ and very little...

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

MadMikeOne wrote:

This is an out-of-the-box suggestion as a solution... (show quote)

I'm with Dennis and MadMike. Get Sony RX10 IV or the Penny near equivalent. One camera, one lens, very fine iQ
and very little weight.Is it 100% as good as an R5 and first class glass...no, but it's damned close.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Good luck with your quest. I just had a reverse right shoulder replacement and I understand pain and limitation although it is short term. The Oly system seems to satisfy many people. However like other systems the camera may be smaller and lighter but the long reaching lenses are still relatively heavy. Canon has released some smaller full frame cameras recently and there are longer reach lenses that are closer to 1.5-2 pounds. That may still be too heavy for you. The other alternatives are bridge cameras as others have mentioned.

snauhaus

My only FF is the original Canon 5D ... with 28-70 and 70-200 mm L lenses ...gathering dust. I enjoyed taking aerial photos from 3000 ft in my Piper Cherokee. Looking to get something newer and lighter, the OM-1 and Lumix G9 got my attention. I like to control the camera with the app on my phone, and the Panasonic Image App is very slick.

Navywife66 Loc: NC

phlash46 wrote:

I'm with Dennis and MadMike. Get Sony RX10 IV or the Penny near equivalent. One camera, one lens, very fine iQ
and very little weight.Is it 100% as good as an R5 and first class glass...no, but it's damned close.

My surgeons are in Westchester NY!
I already purchased the OM-1 and it’s perfect!! Thank you though!

Navywife66 Loc: NC

suntouched wrote:

Good luck with your quest. I just had a reverse ri... (show quote)

Oh goodness I’m sorry to hear about your shoulder! My spouse was told of his shoulder needed a 4th surgery that they may talk about replacement. That was the first time I heard of that.
Thanks for the suggestion but I bought the OM-1 and it’s incredible in my hands and around my neck already! Like it was made for me!

Navywife66 Loc: NC

snauhaus wrote:

My only FF is the original Canon 5D ... with 28-70 and 70-200 mm L lenses ...gathering dust. I enjoyed taking aerial photos from 3000 ft in my Piper Cherokee. Looking to get something newer and lighter, the OM-1 and Lumix G9 got my attention. I like to control the camera with the app on my phone, and the Panasonic Image App is very slick.

Yeah I can’t do it just ignoring my R5 and all the beautiful glass I have so it’s best to sell!

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Navywife66 wrote:

My surgeons are in Westchester NY!
I already purchased the OM-1 and it’s perfect!! Thank you though!

Wonderful! Sorry you need surgeons.

Navywife66 Loc: NC

phlash46 wrote:

Wonderful! Sorry you need surgeons.

It’s ok! I had to have a spine reconstruction and they were wonderful and the only surgeons in the northeast to be skilled enough to keep me out of a wheel chair. Im blessed I found them!

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Navywife66 wrote:

It’s ok! I had to have a spine reconstruction and they were wonderful and the only surgeons in the northeast to be skilled enough to keep me out of a wheel chair. Im blessed I found them!

👏👏👏👏

radiojohn

Another idea for when you REALLY want to pack light: The Fuji X-10.

Large 2/3-inch, 12-megapixel EXR-CMOS sensor and advanced EXR processor; RAW shooting and in-camera RAW processing.

f2.0 wide-angle and f2.8 telephoto, bright Fujinon 4x optical manual barrel zoom lens + OPTICAL FINDER.

Program / Aperture Priority / Shutter Speed Priority / Manual; 1080p Full HD movie recording capabilities.

Motion Panorama 360 for seamless 360-degree panoramic shooting; manual pop-up flash with a range of 7 meters.

A rather amazing camera with traditional handling 35mm users sometimes love.

radiojohn

Here's a photo. Only about 110mm in 35mm equiv.

jcboy3

Navywife66 wrote:

I have been using the R5 for a while now and some wonderful, heavy glass. I love the IQ don’t get me wrong. I hate the weight, I hate hating to take out my tripod and or monopod for certain shots. I want to be able to hand hold as much as possible. I have had a total spine reconstruction 10 years ago. I am struggling with pain, and loss of movement of my spine, so no bending twisting or anything like that. The shots I take or want to can be challenging for those without my short comings. I am wanting something lighter around my neck and smaller in my hand and not struggle. Yep I admit it, struggle. I am finding that I am not enjoying photography as much due to the issues I am having and find I don’t take it with me like my former cameras. I have a friend who uses OM-1 but previous the older equipment. Her photos are amazing. I don’t sell my work, I just do this for medicinal purposes and enjoyment. I am debating, very strongly mind you, of downsizing everything and selling all my Canon gear. I have already purchased the OM-1 and a 40-150 2.8 lens. I do not need to sell the Canon equipment however I do not want it to sit in my photography room and not be used.
I have been a part of this group on and off for years now and find it to be a great site for buying and selling in my personal experience of course. I really do value everyones opinion even if sometimes some can be a bit harsh. It’s ok though, I am a Navywife and have a tough shell. However I do prefer folks being nice to me, I do have a soft heart.
If you own a OM-1 let me know how you like it. If you switched from a FF camera to OM, let me know. I am curious to find out how many have really done what I am about to do but with no regrets, or very few.
If you maybe are curious about the rest of my gear from RF (and a rare third party lens that works with my camera still) to EF lenses to adapters and so forth, let me know. Like I said, I am STRONGLY thinking about it. I will give this group first dibs on my equipment.

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I've used Olympus for years, as well as Nikon and Panasonic (for video). Olympus finally got reliable auto focus and I basically stopped shooting with my Nikon gear; I now use it mainly for weddings for a few professional and technical reasons.

The OM-1 is incredible for wildlife, although I still use an E-M1 III along with it for landscapes, portraits, and some sports. And I use an E-M5 III with small primes for concerts/theatre where small is more appropriate.

A few tips. Get a listing of all settings and note what you are changing for various scenarios, and then put those menu items in MyMenu. Unlike Nikon, Olympus does not indicate what has been changed from default in the menus.

I use custom settings to store basic settings for landscape, studio or macro, fast wildlife and action/slow wildlife. What Olympus allows you to do is copy settings between custom modes (C1, C2, etc) and the PASM modes. For the most part, I use the custom modes as baselines, and copy from them to an appropriate PASM mode.

With recent cameras, they added a feature to Hold settings changes, so I use C4 for action and switch to it with a function button, and it will preserve my changes so I can switch back. I restore C4 from C3 and make a few changes (shutter speed, drive mode, and so on) to get back.

The function lever can be used to switch AF settings; I switch between all points and a small area with it, sometimes between continuous and single AF as well. I also have manual focus set to a function button, and I have it set so I can do single AF with the AF-On button while in manual focus mode. Three AF settings can be quickly accessed with the lever and/or function button.

If you like smooth water, you can use the ND function to simulate ND filters. No more adding filters for that effect unless you are going for very long exposures.

One touch bracketing is now available; assign it to a function button.

You can really save battery life if you keep the LCD flipped around and use the EVF with the eye sensor.

I travel a lot, and just use USB charging. Get a spare battery, just in case. I rarely need to swap batteries during the day, so in the evening I just plug it it and then swap the battery in the morning to keep balanced use of the batteries.

Olympus can show blown highlights and crushed shadows in live view; it's a bit convoluted on how to set it (its in the Cogs > 4.Information menu page). This is one of the best tools for getting good exposure, and if I find I'm lowering exposure compensation too much to avoid blown highlights I switch to bracketing.

Good luck, good shooting.

radiojohn

"Olympus can show blown highlights and crushed shadows in live view; it's a bit convoluted on how to set it (its in the Cogs > 4.Information menu page)."

As a guy who grew up on manual focusing, stop-down metering cameras with a needle in the finder, I find this highly amusing.

Probably wonderful, but still highly amusing. The computer industry indeed has taken over photography.

Bo0mer

Navywife66, as jcboy pointed out, you can use the ND function to smooth water, but it also can give some nice effects to moving objects such as clouds and trains. Another nice function is handheld hi-res, which can be toggled on and off with the video button when you are in still photography. Unlike most other cameras, the Oly not only composites it in camera as a jpeg, but also gives you 2 raw files, the composite and the single exposure raw. Also, try Live Comp for light painting and lightning. This shot was taken last evening, using live comp. You can literally watch the image building on the rear lcd, and stop it when you have what you are after. For more info on the features, check out Robin Wong or Rob Trek on youtube.

Navywife66 Loc: NC

jcboy3 wrote:

I've used Olympus for years, as well as Nikon and Panasonic (for video). Olympus finally got reliable auto focus and I basically stopped shooting with my Nikon gear; I now use it mainly for weddings for a few professional and technical reasons.

The OM-1 is incredible for wildlife, although I still use an E-M1 III along with it for landscapes, portraits, and some sports. And I use an E-M5 III with small primes for concerts/theatre where small is more appropriate.

A few tips. Get a listing of all settings and note what you are changing for various scenarios, and then put those menu items in MyMenu. Unlike Nikon, Olympus does not indicate what has been changed from default in the menus.

I use custom settings to store basic settings for landscape, studio or macro, fast wildlife and action/slow wildlife. What Olympus allows you to do is copy settings between custom modes (C1, C2, etc) and the PASM modes. For the most part, I use the custom modes as baselines, and copy from them to an appropriate PASM mode.

With recent cameras, they added a feature to Hold settings changes, so I use C4 for action and switch to it with a function button, and it will preserve my changes so I can switch back. I restore C4 from C3 and make a few changes (shutter speed, drive mode, and so on) to get back.

The function lever can be used to switch AF settings; I switch between all points and a small area with it, sometimes between continuous and single AF as well. I also have manual focus set to a function button, and I have it set so I can do single AF with the AF-On button while in manual focus mode. Three AF settings can be quickly accessed with the lever and/or function button.

If you like smooth water, you can use the ND function to simulate ND filters. No more adding filters for that effect unless you are going for very long exposures.

One touch bracketing is now available; assign it to a function button.

You can really save battery life if you keep the LCD flipped around and use the EVF with the eye sensor.

I travel a lot, and just use USB charging. Get a spare battery, just in case. I rarely need to swap batteries during the day, so in the evening I just plug it it and then swap the battery in the morning to keep balanced use of the batteries.

Olympus can show blown highlights and crushed shadows in live view; it's a bit convoluted on how to set it (its in the Cogs > 4.Information menu page). This is one of the best tools for getting good exposure, and if I find I'm lowering exposure compensation too much to avoid blown highlights I switch to bracketing.

Good luck, good shooting.

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Wow thank you for all this information! I have so much to learn on how to use this to its fullest potential, that’s for sure! That ND function I am really excited about using at the beach! I already purchased an extra battery and the double charger. Also dual SD cards as I with back and forth and always have that extra in case one fails. Thank you again!