Perceptive Light

This morning I had a quick look at the tree sections in yesterdays post photographed with the new Olympus EM-5 OMD (Immediately below) There is a softness haze like feeling around the detail. I have seen this before with the first image stabilised lens I owned a Canon 28-135 IS. If this lens was used with the IS on and mounted on a tripod there would be a sort of minute circular blurring on the contrasty sharp edges. This effect is far less evident with body image stabilisation but it is present.   The photo was taken not with a tripod attached to this heavyish lens but resting on the balustrade of the deck of my house. The difference? In the first image I inadvertently left the image stabilisation on the second image was shot at a different time this afternoon with the IS off with the result that the photograph is crisp as it should be. Oly will be pleased!

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“Mirrorless Rumours - It’s easy to guess that the new Fuji X PRO 1 has a better image quality than the new Olympus E-M5. Now the chinese testers at DCfever (Click here) are showing us for the first time how great the difference is. Just click on the image below to enlarge the ISO test:”

But is it…

These samples illustrated are jpegs and as such are not a true determination of the capabilities of either camera. The in camera software in the Olympus looks to be more aggressive and a real comparison really needs to use a common or at the least a prime lens of similar focal length on each…

Yours truly will buy one of these cameras I really like my PEN EP-2 and I was leaning towards the OMD but the thing that has prejudice me  against the Olympus OMD for the moment is the fact that  Oly has slapped a premium of over AUD $200 on top of the US published price. And this is when the Aussie dollar is worth more than the USD. There are more than a few multinationals that practice this kind of pricing  Canon, Apple and Leica to name but a few.  My research indicates that it is not duties, taxes or freight that causes this premium, its more the case that the manufactures seem to look at average disposable income and increase price accordingly… You could say I’m a bit p***ed off about this… Which ever way this is looked at Oly is engaging in a bit of price gouging!

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Canon S70 f8 1/13s ISO400

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Canon s70 f5.3 1/400s ISO 400

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Canon S70 f8 1/13s ISO100

I inadvertently set the on camera flash to on and this is the result a thin band of shadow on the foreground ladder. I don’t often use flash preferring natural light but this accident works for me!!!

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Leica M9 f9.5 1/500s ISO160 Voigtlander f1.4 35mm

When I have to travel in rural W.A. I always try to vary my route and if possible avoid the highways at least in one direction either going to or returning home. Today I had to travel to Toodyay a very pleasent small town halfway up the run of the Avon river valley. Off the side of a side road I spied this old abandoned half stone half mud brick farm house. My guess is it was built around the 1850′s it has a good aspect with views of lovely rolling hills. Its always a shame to see these pioneer homes fall into ruins, it seems that the farm families just out grow the original homes and go on to build larger grander homes on top of the hills where the views are better and where there is more exposure to cooling winds. In the days when this house was built there was perhaps more wisdom in the choice of house location; houses built atop of hills more often secum to bush fire catastrophy; water is generally easier to find at the bottom of hills and horses like humans tire quickly when having to carry payloads up hill!

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Canon 5D f5 1/125s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

Its almost mid December and the days are starting to get hot and the nights are remaining warm this Downy triggerplant flower is I think the last member of the family to flower in my corner of the forest. But its never possible to know for sure.  About  fifteen years ago we had an unusually heavy rainfall on Christmas day it seldom rains in December but a few days later some new (to me) and different pants appeared and flowered so you just never know!

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Leica M9 f6.7 1/1000s ISO320 Voigtlander 50mm f.1.5

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I have been a huge fan of Olympus Cameras since I received a PEN EE from the same aunt who years earlier gave me my second camera a Kodak Starflex then later still a Kodak Junior developing kit as birthday gifts. The PEN EE met a sad end when it was smashed by an over zealous Russian customs idiot while visiting Moscow in the mid seventies. The Oly XA was also a brilliant camera a design classic in many ways. I still pass a roll of film through it at least once a year. This camera was the design that set the pattern for most of the point an shoot cameras for next twenty years The only minor fault I can point to in its functionality was the focusing lever, it was proportioned for delicate Asian fingers and not for sausage like phalanges of a western male. I recall reading an off record comment from a Leica spokes person that read ‘the only Japanese camera manufacturer that Leica considered to be worthy competition was Olympus’ – high praise indeed. After being co pioneers of the micro four thirds success it is sad that the company has been brought to its knees by the recent governance woes. The following interview with the deposed CEO by the UK’s Amateur Photographer offers some interesting comments…

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