Olympus Om-d E M10 Mark Iii

[Ceasar Doyle]

Amisty sunrise. Just use filters or bracketing for the exposure and you don't have to worry that much about dynamic range. Nevertheless, this is a single shot without filters. (M.zuiko 25mm, ISO 200, f/8, 1/60)

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Nando Harmsen is a Dutch photographer that is specialized in wedding and landscape photography. With his roots in the analog photo age he gained an extensive knowledge about photography techniques and equipment, and shares this through his personal blog and many workshops.

I use my Oly during hiking, biking or exploring cities. I never print larger than A2 and do not shoot moving subjects in dim light. So for me its the perfect tool. Interesting that DR difference was so perceptible for you. Both cams are not too far away from each other (dxomark: 12.8 vs. 13.6).

I found light weight camera and gears such as olympus more enjoyable when travelling, hiking and even a walking. Comparison with like Canon full frame cameras, when I put mine side by side with their photos, I do notice the differences in the shallower dept of fields or dynamic range, but looking at each photo and not by side by side comparison, it seems to make little practical differences to me. So I still stick to my MFT gears for now.

Weather sealing is very important to me. I have been rather satisfied with the weather sealing and overall durability of the Canon 1 series DSLRs I have owned ..... but if Olympus weather sealing is even better, then it may be worth looking into the Olympus system ..... (although I don't like small cameras and would probably prefer to stick with cameras that are larger and fill my hand more comfortably).

EXTREMELY impressive! It is freaking awesome that Olympus takes weather sealing so seriously. Now I really wish they would make a larger, heavier cameras with much larger sensors (but not medium format).

It's hard to ignore the 2-stop difference in real world shooting favouring FF over MFT, and then in post you get 1-2 added stops. That makes a HUGE difference in quality of files. If all you do is web share, then MFT works. If you are a commercial or large print photog, MFT is not acceptable. It should be priced much lower to compensate for the lesser sensor quality. Other than that, excellent systems, priced and managed wrong.

It's hard to ignore the 4-8 stop practical advantage of Olympus versus most FF when you factor in image stabiization. That's what ultimately won me over from Canon FF back in 2016. Yes, there is less room for sloppy exposure choices.

Many of the stock agencies have an EXTREMELY demanding review process, in which images are scrutinized by a review panel at far beyond 100 percent views. This is pixel peeping at the highest level, and if the images you submit show any noise grain, or any signs of having used noise-reduction software, then they will be rejected by the reviewers.

The same is often true when submitting directly to magazine, calendar, and fine art publishers. They have very stringent submission guidelines, and technical image quality lies at the very core of their extreme standards.

for well light. environment, and well. lit party scenes, I have no issues using Olympus MFT. However when it gets dark and bump up ISOs to like 3200 or higher, I wish for a bigger sensor, thinking, a bigger sensor with a fast prime lens would do a better job, especially in a dark lit party scenes, and people are moving and not still.

Olympus an excellent camera but it faces competition from every direction. Professionals have been well served by Nikon and Canon; more so now by their new mirrorless cameras. Sony cameras launched frequently with improved sensors. Fujifilm following a more traditional path with LEICA stylling. The key point how retailers view Olympus looking at sales turnover. Maybe Olympus seen more as an amateur camera. Perception is everything.

Yes, I agree. Perception plays an important role, not just for camera buyers but also by the subjects and clients. I felt people who are photographed, photo subjects seem to think big camera and lenses would make better photos of them than smaller gears like Olympus. A group of us, viewing and comparing photos taken by different size formats but from a same scene, a few people get surprised to notice similar or comparable quality of photos coming of small Olympus cameras.

Battery life, startup time, viewfinder lag, ergonomics... they addressed these issues, I think. Only the low light performance doesn;'t keep up with the full frame camera's of today.

If you don;t need low light performance, it is a very capable camera.

It is funny that the biggest complaint is the noise in high ISO. It almost starts to seem that everyone wants to shoot in pitch black conditions and want the photos to look like they've been taken in daylight. :)

I agree. It's not difficult to expose and post process to minimize noise in most situations. I've never had a problem producing images that accomplish what I want with my E-M1 Mk.2 or Mk.3.

It wasn't that long ago that the best of Canon or Nikon didn't have any more dynamic range and any better high ISO performance than the current m43 sensors. Go back only 25 years and look at the best color films for DR and 'high' ISO performance, then have another look at the newest m43 cameras. If I was really worried about noise and all the other 'weaknesses' of the format, I'd go right past FF to MF.

It does seem that the high sensitivity sensors have made photographers "lazy" in terms of lightning and getting exposure right. My wife and I were sitting in a new restaurant and the "photographer" from the local paper was in photographing the place for an article. Looked to be a Nikon D4/D5 (not sure which) and a 70-200 VR 2.8 lens (that I recognized as I still have one from my Nikon kit) so a combination that should be "good" in low-light. So they start bringing out food for her photograph and she is taking photos with just ambient light. Not even a speedlight. I turned to my wife and said "I wonder how those are going to turn out?" Needless to say, when the article ran, the only photo was of the owners (husband and wife) in front of their restaurant (outside). None of the food pictures were used (and I wonder if they were even usable). If I was the owners, I would have been disappointed that not one of those meals I prepared for them to take photos of ... not one was used.

Would you rather be the photographer who brought $2000.00 worth of lightning to a 45 second clip and got what was needed / wanted or the photographer who brought $5000+ worth of camera and lens and got little to nothing in one hour?

Well yes, that is what I want. I submit my images to publishers who receive hundreds of photos from other wildlife photography professionals. The images I submit are in direct competition with hundreds of other photos, and the Director of Photography who makes final selections is extremely concerned about technical image quality.

Many publishers do not allow any editing - we must submit unedited "as shot" image files. So we must have images that are free of noise grain in the first place, because we are not allowed to use any noise reduction software.

So yes, I/we do want to take photos in very low light, and have them be completely free of noise grain ..... because they are being scrutinized by potential purchasers, and in direct competition with images that were taken in daylight conditions.

The reason I no longer use Olympus products is that every last product I owned from Olympus (except lenses) died at the most inappropriate time starting with my OM-2 whose shutter curtain hung up on a trip to Europe in '81. End of story.

No, it's like having bought several pieces of equipment over 25 years, all of which failed. "Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me. Fool me 7 times; all optimism for the company goes out the window like a power fart." ( 8*)

I started out with a second hand Canon EOS 7D mkii and have acquired a reasonable set of mostly second hand lenses. I then bought a second hand EOS sl2 200D because of the smaller size and 24mp sensor lifted from the EOS 80D. I preferred the smaller camera and started photographing birds. I've since bought the entry level OMD E-M10 mkiii plus two kit lenses brand new and a second hand 75-300mm MFT lens.

The 7D mkii is best for birds in flight with excellent tracking focus. The sl2 200D was better for photographing Auriculas a plant with a startling white circular centre next to a darker velvety high contrast and darks outer margins on the same flower without blowing out the white. Both the canon cameras have anti aliasing filters which can yield slightly less than tack sharp fine detail.

The OMD without an anti-aliasing filter gives me more tack sharp photographs and is becoming my go to camera, it is definitely my holiday travel camera. The only way I would use the OMD for portraits would be in its portrait mode as this provides the sort of image smoothing that the Canon's with their anti-aliasing produce all the time.

The cost of Olympus OMD is such that I may upgrade within that system and slowly back out of the Canon system as the cost of RF is too much for my hobbyist pocket and the range of their M series lenses is too small.

The E-M10 mkiii with two lens kit in silver livery was the most popular selling camera in Japan last year. The all black version was also in the top 10 best sellers. So they are more popular than other brands in that market.

Since this was the first time using this new body I decided to keep the AF settings simple. Like all options on the pro version Olympus cameras, there are a myriad of ways to setup the AF. I choose settings, AF-C with the FPS set to Sequential High, that are virtually identical to what I used to set on my Nikons. I did not use AF Tracking though I hope to give that a try in the future.

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