Some of you were kind enough to give me plenty of advice as I sought a “pocketable” camera here. Yesterday whilst out for work I had both the camera and the charger in the centre console of my car, and went to a nearby location I’ve visited a handful of times before.
One of the features of this location is an ornamental fountain and cascade, that is in the open, yet set amongst some fairly deep shade. I’m quite pleased about the detail picked up in the shade whilst still keeping the bright fountain from blowing out:
I also experimented with the stabilization and shot handheld as low as 1/2s at highest f/number (22). On pixel peeping not entirely shake-free, but at full-screen perfectly acceptable:
OK; this is not a genre I’ve spent a lot of time working on, so my choices in composition, depth-of-field, and exposure mode probably have a large scope for improvement.
My biggest question thus far is white balance and hence color callibration. Is it reasonable to attempt to create a standard illuminant profile for daylight for this sensor, as I have using a color target for my Nikon D7200?
I can’t help with any of your technical questions, but I share your enthusiasm for new camera day.
Congrats!
And good call on finding a challenging scene with lighting and detail to test it with.
Hi Martin, I see you went the Olympus OM-10. A nice camera. It offers a lot of control and setup options via its menu system. It has menus within menus. You will be really able to tweak this camera to your preferences. Invest some time into reading the manual. Good luck with your new toy. The OM-10 is a good choice for what you wanted. The TG Olympus cameras are good for tough conditions but are very limited in creative controls.
Looks nice, Olympus always had the best IBIS. You may want to invest in a 10-stop ND filter though if you want to make pictures like that frequently, so you don’t have to shoot at f/22 (because of diffraction).
You can do that if you really care about color fidelity, otherwise I would just tweak to taste.
I think you got a neat little camera you can take everywhere and get great photos out of it. Frankly, I am tempted to get an older Oly myself.
