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    Default Barn owl (Tyto alba)

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    HH, I was photographing butterflies and spotted the barn owl coming towards me, I quickly flicked the shutter speed hoping I had increased enough and fired a few frames. If only I had gone to 1/1600 and had the big lens on, oh well there's always another day! This frame is at the point he spotted me.
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    Image input equipment model : E-M1X
    Lens focal length : 210 mm (420mm equivalent)
    Exposure mode : Manual exposure
    Photographic Sensitivity : 250
    Exposure bias : 0 EV
    Exposure time : 1/1250 sec
    F number : F4.5

    Processed using Olympus workspace (accustomising myself to it but in many ways similar to Canon DPP) and PSCC

    All C&C welcome.

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    Love the in your face incoming pose in this grab shot. Nice to get in this close with only 210mm (with micro 4/3). SH looks great at 1/1250. Good detail for a large crop. TFS

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    More than decent. What is an E-M1X?

    You might try leveling the eyes :)

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    Very nice Image. I like the space around the image which adds to it.

    I would add a little bit of contract to it using levels.

    TFS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    More than decent. What is an E-M1X?

    You might try leveling the eyes :)

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    Artie it is a 4/3 Olympus version of Canon 1DX

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton View Post
    Artie it is a 4/3 Olympus version of Canon 1DX
    Hi Jonathan, You forgot to mention it's mirrorless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Roach View Post
    Hi Jonathan, You forgot to mention it's mirrorless.
    Absolutely David you are right (I think 4/3 -any make are mirrorless).

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    In what ways is it like a 1DX? Was it intentional? DO they advertise that?

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    Great wing and tail flare position Jon--1/1600 appears to have been adequate SS...exposure appears just right for the whites. Nice to get one of these out of the blue like that and even has a band.

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    Looking good Jon. How are you finding the gear compared to the 'old' stuff.

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    Looks really good for what you describe as a grab shot basicially. Like the head on view.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    In what ways is it like a 1DX? Was it intentional? DO they advertise that?

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    Artie, the best way to explain is look here https://asia.olympus-imaging.com/pro.../feature2.html this shows the capabilities - quite incredible - a whole new world. So customisable and if you ever said, "I wish the 1DX did this", well almost certainly this camera does!
    then from that link you can go to other various links showing various authors, accessories etc

    My one and only reservation is that it is not good at high ISO, I have had some decent shots at ISO 6400 but that is pushing it. If any one does a lot of high ISO action then I would say this camera is not for you.
    The design and finish and robust quality is second to none - even something as simple as the foot of the 300mm lens - it is an ARCA Swiss plate edge, the 300mm lens is razor sharp and the diddy 60mm macro well you've seen some results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Dickson View Post
    Looking good Jon. How are you finding the gear compared to the 'old' stuff.

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    Loving it Will, so convenient so fast so flexible, it's small but built like a tank. Sorry that's misleading, the lenses are small the camera body is a good size, it fits well in the hand a bit smaller than 1DX. In other words you know you have a proper camera in your hand!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton View Post
    Artie, the best way to explain is look here https://asia.olympus-imaging.com/pro.../feature2.html this shows the capabilities - quite incredible - a whole new world. So customisable and if you ever said, "I wish the 1DX did this", well almost certainly this camera does!
    then from that link you can go to other various links showing various authors, accessories etc

    My one and only reservation is that it is not good at high ISO, I have had some decent shots at ISO 6400 but that is pushing it. If any one does a lot of high ISO action then I would say this camera is not for you.
    The design and finish and robust quality is second to none - even something as simple as the foot of the 300mm lens - it is an ARCA Swiss plate edge, the 300mm lens is razor sharp and the diddy 60mm macro well you've seen some results.
    Thanks Jon. Comparing it to a 1DX is a satretch at best :). It looks great. SONY could use this: MF operation in C-AF.

    with love, artie

    ps: what lenses do they have or do you use it on Canon lenses with an adapter?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Thanks Jon. Comparing it to a 1DX is a satretch at best :). It looks great. SONY could use this: MF operation in C-AF.

    with love, artie

    ps: what lenses do they have or do you use it on Canon lenses with an adapter?
    Artie I have effectively duplicated my Canon gear so I have 14-100 pro, 40-150pr0, 300 pro 60mm macro and 1.4TC so I go effectively from 24mm to 840mm

    I don't see any stretch comparing it to Canon 1DX apart from the High ISO capability, in my view it does everything the 1DX does but more too, BUT you cannot get good files at high ISO - as I said before no use pretending .......but hey I got over it!
    It is faster, smaller, lighter, but still big enough to feel like a real camera, it takes 50 and 80MP files, it focus stacks, it takes ND effect images, the fps are all to your own liking, the focus system is to your own liking and 7.5EV stabilisation too. I don't recall the Canon doing anything in the last sentence. It is also more weather proof than any other camera, that goes for the PRO lenses too.
    I called my 1DX "the beast", I call EM1X "a little miracle"!! It is just so much fun, I literally take it with me every time I take Barney for a walk, its just no trouble.
    There is a super zoom coming out before too long something like a 400, with in built TC, maybe late this early next year they are also going to launch the 2xTC in the next few months. I don't know if you knew that all 4/3 lenses regardless of manufacturer are interchangable, but if you stick to Olympus if you have the PRO lens you get the stacking facility along with image stabilisation that is in addition to that provided by the body.

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    Thanks Jon for the clarification but it still makes zero sense to me. Why not compare it to the 5D IV, the D5, or the D850, or any other modern dSLR or mirrorless body? They all do the same thing to one degree or another :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Thanks Jon for the clarification but it still makes zero sense to me. Why not compare it to the 5D IV, the D5, or the D850, or any other modern dSLR or mirrorless body? They all do the same thing to one degree or another :)

    with love, artie
    The reason for the comparison is because I had a 1DX (and a 5D IV) so I can make a direct informed comparison and the Olympus website also indicates it is a comparable camera in so far that it can do everything the full frame cameras can do and more. In other words the camera is not a toy it is built to the highest professional camera standards. I have not found anything the 1DX could do that the Olympus cannot do.
    The only thing the 1DX does better - and by some considerable margin, is produce clean files at high ISO.

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    Thanks again but time to let go as it still makes zero sense to me :)

    with love, artie

    ps: My SONY a7R iii does pretty much everything that a Canon 1DX, 1DX II, 5D Mark IV and and the Nikon D850 and D5 can do. In no way, shape or form does that make the a7R iii "a version of any of those bodies."

    pps: Am I being pedantic? Yes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Thanks again but time to let go as it still makes zero sense to me :)

    with love, artie

    ps: My SONY a7R iii does pretty much everything that a Canon 1DX, 1DX II, 5D Mark IV and and the Nikon D850 and D5 can do. In no way, shape or form does that make the a7R iii "a version of any of those bodies."

    pps: Am I being pedantic? Yes.
    I'm losing the will to live Artie, I don't know what point you are trying to make, let sleeping dogs rest eh?

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    Good plan.

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