Wonderful, Julian. Glad I pushed you! And you've sneaked in a DP Merrill 3 without mentioning it (unless I missed that thread). That's the 50mm, isn't it? How do you find it?
The first four are fantastic - love the ice cream one. The other two are good too, lots of detail in shadows.
I did start a tread when I got the OM-D I remember. Hamish had a special thread I believe, with the old site.
You ask how it is. Well so far I am gob smacked with the images. It is a landscapers dream machine. Got chatting to a serious photographer unlike myself. he uses medium format digital for landscapes and recommended the DP3
as being very close. I thought to good to be true but yes truly an eye opener. down sized images for the web does not do it justice but the full resolution images are phenomenal. My best lenses on the 5DMK2 do not come close.
Not for the faint hearted. You really need to stay at 100 or 200 iso, 400 is ok in good light. Always shoot in Raw. It is slow slow slow, partly because each raw is 45-50 MB each. Ten seconds of blinking red light for every raw shot.
You can shoot 7 consecutive shots though, but wait a minute for the camera to stop blinking. It is basic, no arty farty filter jpegs. It is definetly not a p&s or for snaps. it is essentially a tripod mount camera. The LCD screen is hard
to see in bright light. Technically the camera speed is as bad as it gets. But when you get the hang of how to use the devilishly slow Raw software, Sigma Photo pro, review the images all is forgiven.
The first shot above. I do not think the Full size could be accessed last night. I think it can be now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliandecourcy/11076278525/sizes/o/in/photostream/ That is in very grey dull light.
One more negative , the battery lasts for about 50 shots in this cold weather. They supply two batteries with each camera. I have four more on order so i can get half a days shooting, (maybe).
I like it though, I have the OM-D for quick snappy fast things and I think all my Canon Full frame and lenses may be going, with the intention of getting at least the DP2Merrill and maybe DP1Merrill as well.
I think the camera will come into it's own when the sun shines a bit and can see it capturing many a sunset. Not so keen on sunrises for the obvious reasons.
It is not for everyone.
Forgot to say, which is something I like , it has a leaf shutter. So must experiment with the flash a bit.
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