Momentous Decision - Olympus OMD EM-5
Goodbye Canon; Hello Olympus OMD EM-5
Plus, Panasonic f/2.8s: 12-35, 35-100, and 100-300
Carrying the Canon gear had become too much work for me and frankly I lost a bit of the enjoyment of photography.
These past two days in The Palouse, WA shooting only with the new rig has been a pleasure.
First two days and RAW results caused me to make the jump.
I climbed down a steep incline to be able to sit down and position myself to shoot a stream several hundred feet below. I could not have made the climb up and down with Canon gear
I am now using the Gitzo 2542 - no center column. When climbing, hiking, etc. I can put the three lenses and the body in my vest and use the tripod as a walking/climbing aid. The gear is so light I hardly realize I am carrying the stuff.
I was able to sit there and lower the tripod to create a strong foreground feature (thank you for the education Kah Kit Yoong for my wide angle shot with the 12 - 35; then switch lenses to the 35-100 and the 100-300 as easily as handling a couple of cans of coke. They are all so small and light.
The interesting fact about a 4/3rds system is that the bokeh from your lens is double the f/stop. So all of my bokeh with my f/2.8 lenses is equivalent to an f/5.6 on a FF camera. The result is that you shoot a lot more wide or close to wide open.
Even though I have a 12mm f/2.8 in the WA zoom, I will add a very wide prime with hopefully a very wide aperture in the future.
It will be another week before I settle down and have the time to process some of the images beyond LR. I am please thus far with the LR results.
Trading a bit of IQ and the limitations associated with 4/3rds and an EVF for a lot of pleasure and ease of carrying and hiking is, today, a no brainier.
