OM-1 Camera Travel Adventure & Review: Unveiling some of Europe's Charms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2023
- I traveled several European countries this summer in my campervan and used the OM SYSTEM, OM-1 with the Olympus 17mm f/1.2 & 40-150mm f/2.8 lenses only. See in this episode how this gear performed and what my opinion are on this "matter"
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This is the reason that I'll watch some review videos even 6 months after buying the camera. I never thought of using the burst panning method to make panorama images.
Haha neither did i but i had to find a solution to get the whole scenery in the photo so i tried i out and it worked 😀 happy new year
The 17mm f1.2 is one of the sharpest m43 ever created and you did a great job using it well. Congrats on the travel, OM-1 and outstanding images.
Thank youi for your comment 😊
Thinking of getting this for rainy days in the woodland. Ive seen videos of people putting it in the shower at home, works great still! W/12-40 2.8 II.
Recommendation for wide angle on MFT: Laowa 10mm-tiny, very affordable, very good. While traveling, I leave my 17mm/1.2 at home and take the Leica 15mm instead. I use the 40-150/4 pro, which is smaller and lighter than it’s 2.8 sibling. Professional quality gear can be so small and lightweight…
Thanks for the good advice! :)
Wonderful trip and the photos are amazing.
Thanks 😁
Awesome combo really impressive stuff from the OM-1 . Amazing travel set up 👍
Thanks Mark 😁
Good video Dennis. It is a great set up for travel photography. Small and light and great quality.
Thank you and yes i agree :)
Was great to see the cave photos and compare with my experiences with older Nikon D600 FF shooting similar scenes. The OM-1 blows the old FF out of the water with noise and dynamic range. It's amazing how far cameras have progressed. I was also forced to shoot with higher shutter speeds handheld due to the difference in image stabilization.
Thank you fot the comment and yes its amazing how far it has come! also the speed, AI AF and so on 😁
I visited many of these places in Slovenia and Istria in 2023 and shot with the Fuji X-T3 (I am also a micro 4/3s user). Great places to visit and the OM1 has taken great photos !
Hope you enjoyed it as i did on those locations 😀 thanks and happy new year!
Thanks for sharing, great video and really appreciated the overview and your shots. What has become my go to lens for hiking is the 8-25 f4. Love the coverage and image quality.
Thank for your comment and recommendation :)
Thank you !
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Thanks for taking us along on your adventure! The Panasonic 9mm f1.7 might be a candidate for your 3rd lens to cover the wider shots.
Thank you, will look into to that one, thanks! :)
I always travel with the 12-40 2.8 which is a fantastic lens, plus the 35-100 2.8 panasonic which is extremely compact and also very good. Never had the urge to use a prime like the 17mm 1.2.
Thanks for your comment and input 👍🏻😀
Nice footage and love those images, Dennis. You did amazing works on that panorama shot! Perhaps, next time you could try HHHR in very dark scene as well as on static scene/subject. It takes extra work in editing to get the right sharpness but it is worth the try. I just went to Turkey and Europe; Greece and Italy with my family for 4 weeks. I had to leave my F1.2 lenses and the fast tele lenses since we were moving around a fair bit and only brought carry on luggages. My OM-1 with 12-40mm F2.8, 75mm F1.8, Penleica 9mm F1.7 and the plastic fantastic 40-150mm F4-5.6 did the job beautifully for me. Really love 9mm f1.7 as it is so tiny, light bur really delivered in term of sharpness and IQ. Cheers.
Thanks you :) and thanks for advice and comment to the video and topic! :)
I love the 12-100mm f/4, it covers the wide-to-tele in one very sharp well stabilized lens. I also pack the PL100-400 if I expect to take wildlife photos. A small sling bag carries the whole system quite discretely. HHHR and live-ND with 12-100 are great, really don't need a tripod unless you are taking exposures longer than a few seconds.
Sounds like a great setup Tim! thanks for your input and comment :)
Nice video Dennis ! I have Olympus system also along with sony , great system for many things and macro :) Ronny //
Thanks! :) i use it for everything now and are super happy with the results!
6:18 Vertical shots stitched: practical approach gives excellent result!
[1:20 Did I see correctly: some purple fringeing around the water droplets of the fountain?]
Thanks for your comment :) i just looked at the original and there are a little purple fringeing as you say, also on the statue :)
I did some testing this week with my OM1 with the 40-150 F2.8 vs a Nikon Z7II with a Sigma 150-600 for close-ups (4 to 7 meter) of Kingfishers from behind a camo setup. The close ups I got from the OM1 with the 40-150 are actually much crisper than from the Nikon. I placed the pictures on my flickr page. As I mentioned earlier in a comment of a video from you the OM-system is as you state here ideal for travelling. I travel by bicycle and I commute by bicycle and I have the OM1 always slinged to my side for snapshotting mainly wildlife. I can 'snapshot' subjects with the OM1 that are very hard to get with the Nikon. I will invest in the new Nikon 180-600 lens and later on also invest deeper into the OM-system (maybe the 150-400).
Thank you your comment and thoughts :)
Nice photos, Dennis. Figuring out the right set of lenses for a trip is always a bit of a dilemma. You don't want to overload yourself, but you don't want to miss opportunities, either. I see that you took some photos intended to be stitched together in a pano. That's a good approach when you don't have a wide enough lens.
Thank you 😀👍🏻 yes i had to think out a solution and decided to give it a go with stiching to panorama and it worked 🙏🏻😀📷
Nice stuff. Maybe for such a trip a single lens like 12-100mm would cover everything and make the bag even smaller. Me as a birder, I can never keep 300mm out of the bag, no matter in which trip I go. :)
There are many wide lenses for this system, like Laowa 6mm F/2.0 or Panasonic 9mm F/1.7. For me a 180' fisheye was one of the best options, it opened new perspectives in my photography. I use Samyang 7.5mm F/3.5 lens.
Thank you for your comment and advice for wider options to this system :) Ususally i would bring the 150-400mm f/4.5 lens for wildlife and birds but this time i left it at home :)
There are many options for wide angle for this system.
Laowa 6 and 7.5 mm primes have good reviews (manual focus, but connexions with the camera).
Zooms from Oly, Pana - both 7-14 mm/F2.8 and F4 - and an 8-18 Pana-Leica.
Thanks for the advices and sharing here :)
Thanks for the review Dennis. Like you, I'm also looking around to see if I can move from my bulky Sony system to a smaller one. From what I've seen, to get comparable video to Sony, you should shoot 10bit on OM-1. That's the only over-sampled video mode (both in flat and log mode.) You didn't share your shutter speeds in the video, but I was under the impression that you can go as low as 1 second on OM-1 and drop the ISO fore static shots. Is that not the case?
Hi and thanks 👍🏻 i shoot in 4K, H265, 10bit OM log. I do shoot video in high shutterspeed and low ISO as i dont wanna “fiddle” with ND filters and yes you are righ, for stills you can use Live ND and shoot wide open in bright light with low SS 😀
Have you still got your Sony gear Dennis ? I’ve got the A1 but seriously thinking about the Om what are your thoughts and opinion ?
Nope i sold it all ;) Im super pleased with the OM SYSTEM gear, its not Sony A1 IQ and video quality but its still super good in my opinion and much lighter and versatile!
Did you try the handheld high resolution mode? It improves high ISO performance by many stops.
Yes i did use this mode but only in really good light so didn't notice this 😀 thanks for the tip 👍
@@DennisJacobsenWildlife definitely try it out. I don't remember how many stops exactly, but it was more than a 2 stop difference in noise level improvement. I was comfortable shooting well over 12,800 ISO in this mode. Especially if you downsample the 50MP image down to 20MP, an even cleaner result can be had via noise reduction.
Thank you for sharing your experience with this system. Regarding the noise in your high ISO images, I am very happy using DXO PhotoLab or Pureraw to denoise. The results are outstanding and relieved me from much of my longing for Full Frame cameras 😁
Thank you 😁 I use Topaz but i guess they all are super these days
@@DennisJacobsenWildlife indeed, we are spoiled 😂. Love my olympus. Thank you for your videos, hope you will catch plenty of amazing pics
@@chk_yt3345 yes its getting easier and easier to make great footage 😁
I had om-1, 12mm f2, 60mm f2.8 macro and 100-400mm f5-6.3 with me in Turkey 🇹🇷.
Nice travel setup! thanks for sharing!
I noticed there was no consistency with your choice of aperture. While few of us will be photographing inside caves, the 1.2 aperture, while a very good lens, is too big too heavy and too expensive for a prime. I also noticed that your subjects bar the water were static, so you can shoot at a narrower fstop and use a slower shutter speed. And then you have the dilemma of OM introducing the f4 range for travel photography. If you were going to stick with 2 lenses then the best compromise are your f2.8s. The Olympus 12-40 Pro will always be a better choice, its way more versatile, its the same weight and actually cheaper than the 17mm 1.2. And on a travel experience I have learnt to carry 2 cameras. Surprisingly enough one of most most used lenses for grand scale shots is my Samyang 7.5mm. One of my best shots taken inside a cave looking outside to the river which ran through the cave was a 25 shot HDR pano, using my Pan Leica 8-18mm at 8mm, f8 at 0.4sec, although with tripod. I guess what I am saying is that you do need to mix things up otherwise your images start all looking the same
Thank you for your comment and thoughts on this episode 🙂 do you have a link for your photos (instagram etc.) so we can see how you compose your shoots as described? you describe weight and price as a better choice and that is a personal preference in my opinion 🙃 for some yes, others no
@@DennisJacobsenWildlife Yes, of course. Thats why I introduced the dilemma of the F4 lenses being promoted by OM for travel photography. The trouble is these days we have just too much choice but I think its hard to make the wrong choice, you just need to understand the principals. There are so many fantastic photographers out there and we can can admire in awe. For me fundamentally photography is a personal journey and we do it because it makes us happy and only you know what it took to capture that image. For what its worth heres my cave shot. Its a 5 shot pano and each shot has 5 HDR images all in natural light (the cave was quite dark) put together in Lightroom with some extra post editing. Its an amazing location which involves quite a trip to get to. I did do the research in advance beforehand on how to take this style of image, but I also think I just got lucky on the day. You can see the scale with my friend just a faint shadow on the far right. Its not quite a 180 degree shot, probably 160 degree. No seams anywhere. LR did an amazing job.
www.flickr.com/photos/aniell_esposito/50558382242/in/dateposted-public/
@@zardosspinosa6944 i agree with you and really nice portfolio you have 😊 thanks for sharing
Nice photos. You would be better off stopping down the 17mm to f4-5.6 for landscapes/architecture
Thank you for both comment and advice 👍🏻📷🙂
What are specs of your camper van? Could be doing with a small unit with adequate comfort.
It is a Carado CV540 Edition 15 from 2022 🙂 smallest in the Fiat ducato range of vans. I choose this size because it can drive and park in cities with no problems and still have toilet, shower and 100L water tank + 90L grey water tank on board.
hi Dennis
I think a good smart phone takes better pictures, and probably your Sony A1 does too.
yours sincerely
Thanks for your comment.
which smartphone takes better pictures than the om-1? 🤔
@@moinhosdesaoroque8749 The IPhone’s 14 Max pro , and also The samsung’s.
😂😂😂 idiot
Nonsense!!!!