Olympus OM-D E-M1 Touch and Try Session, Kuala Lumpur (21 and 22 September 2013)
If you happen to be in Kuala Lumpur, you have a chance to touch and try the Olympus OM-D E-M1 in a coming event on 21st and 22nd September!! First come first serve basis, so hurry up and register. I will be there, and hope to see some of you beautiful people there!
Important Notes:
1) I am an employee of Olympus Malaysia. I am reviewing the Olympus OM-D E-M1 from a photography enthusaist’s point of view. I was given the liberty to perform the gear review as usual.
2) This is a user experience based review.
3) The insect macro images were shot in RAW and converted directly to JPEG Large Fine via Olympus Viewer 3 (provided by Olympus Malaysia). The Continuous AF test images were shot directly with JPEG Large Fine, and presented straight out of camera.
4) General camera settings, Noise Filter = OFF, Contrast/Saturation/sharpness = 0, White Balance = Auto (with an option maintain warm color = OFF), Gradation = Normal
5) No post-processing applied to the images. All images were as good as straight out of camera, with minimal cropping for better presentation.
This is
Part 2 of my Olympus OM-D E-M1 review. If you have not done so, please go to
Part 1 here (click).
In the previous blog review I have tested the E-M1 by pushing its limit in high ISO shooting, and the NEW 16MP Live MOS image sensor performed above my expectations. Image quality is not only crucial when it comes to low light performance, and I believe low ISO shooting is equally, if not more important. Now that Olympus has removed the anti-aliasing filter, we are expecting the image to show some improvements, especially in fine details capture with their new "fine detail processing 2".
In order to test the image sharpness of the new image sensor, I have decided to do something that I have always done: insect macro shooting. Concurrently, I shall also discuss the handling of the camera, since macro shooting poses great challenge to handle and balance the camera, steadying the shots with extreme magnification.
Right after macro shooting, we shall explore the capabilities of the Continuous Autofocus with Tracking of the E-M1.
INSECT MACRO SHOOTING: IMAGE SHARPNESS TEST