MICRO 4/3 CAMERAS with any lens fitted

one day live and we are already on page 2 . many thanks to those that have joined in so far , KEEP THEM COMING

pic below house martins in flight ,if you can catch these blighters in flight then anything is possible . g80-100-400

right of passage by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr
 
the black fox said:
No different to getting wild birds in flight , I also thought when I changed to mft my b.i.f days were over ,you do have to think about your settings but it’s easy once you work it out. The terns btw come from a 400+ shot day withabout a 85% success rate
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Yes,when i bought in about 2 years ago i stood there with the camera in hand and loads of crap BIF results and thought WTF have i done, its looking at what isnt working and find a way to make it work.
 
EM1MK11 40-150 1.4TC

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panasonic g80 + 100-300mm lens for a change, oops you cant do b.i.f with MFT cameras can you :banana::banana::banana:

lift off by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr
 
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well I suppose these two come into the thread description act , panasonic g80 + Jupiter 37AM manual focus 135mm lens , a superb bit of Russian glass . I think it works better on the olympus though

sundial by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr

roses are red by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr
 
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Is that the RSPB Conwy reserve? Used to go there as a child, I'm sure it rings a bell!
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Good guess ,but no it’s the Dee estuary from the Wirral side ,that’s the welsh foothills in the background . According to my records the harriers move in for the next month .followed by the short eared owls in October and other raptors
 
I started with a GF1 and 20mm f1.7.

Saltburn. f4, 1/8 sec handheld and ISO 1,600.

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Posh ski resort in Kazakhstan, and you can't really tell from this but she's a babe :D happy days :D f4, 1/3,200, ISO 100.

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Apple City Kazakhstan. f4, 1/4,000, ISO 100.

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Belgium, f1.7, 1/80 and ISO 1,600.

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Same settings.

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I liked the GF1 but not back screen shooting so I changed to a G1. I kept the 20mm f1.7 and added a 14-42mm kit lens. I was very impressed with that cheap kit lens, it seemed to display no distortion or CA or any other nasties... at all, which I found quite remarkable for such a cheap little lens :D I was less impressed with my 45-200mm and later changed it for the IMO much better 45-150mm.

Whitby, G1 and 20mm f1.7 at f4, 1/2,500, ISO 100.

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I added a Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 and although you wont be able to tell too much from this picture when I saw pictures taken with this lens on my PC I was shocked in a good way :D as the level of detail and sharpness was something I just didn't expect from MFT.

Outside an old pub, South Bank on the outskirts of Middlesbrough, G1, Voigtlander 25mm f0.95, 1/3200, ISO 100. Stopped down but I forget to what aperture.

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I then got into old film era lenses and I now have a few of them :D This was taken with a Minolta 50mm of some sort but I forget which.

Dancing man, Redcar, G1 and Minolta 50mm.

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This is a heavy crop, G1 and Minolta 50mm f1.7, 1/200, ISO 100.

Galloping horse, Saltburn.

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I also added the Olympus 25 and 45mm f1.8's which are both excellent.

Wild growing daffodils, Normanby, G1 with 45mm f1.8 at f4, 1/640, ISO 100.

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I bought a GX7 and later sold my trusty old G1 and added a G7 to my little collection and along the way picked up the excellent 12-35mm f2.8, and Olympus 9-18mm and the tiny and shockingly good 14-42mm Mega OIS. I couldn't get on with the grip on the G7 as it annoyed me every time I pickled it up so it went.

The 12-35mm f2.8 was a revelation to me as for the first time I had a MFT zoom that gave me a FF look... allow me to explain... with previous MFT zooms I had an aperture range of f3.5-5.6 but with the 12-35mm I could have f2.8 throughout the range which gave me pretty much the same look I'd get from FF at about f5-11 or so which with FF would be about where I took most of my pictures. The way the dof falls away gives a FF look at f2.8-4 or 5 or so that was difficult to get from the f3.5-5.6 zooms.

G7 and 12-35mm f2.8 at 33mm, f2.8, 1/1,600 and ISO 200. Mrs WW...

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This was taken with the same lens on my GX7...

GX7 and 12-35mm f2.8 at 35mm, f2.8, 1/400 and ISO 400.

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I sold the GX7 and bought a GX80 and later added a GX9.

To be honest I can see no real difference in image quality between the G7, GX7, GX80 and GX9 but the GX9 has the advantage of being 20mp instead of 16mp.

Just a few more pictures :D

GX80 and 45-150mm at 150mm, f5.6, 1/500 and ISO 16,000. Yup ISO 16,000 :D It wont be great printed 1m wide and viewed with a magnifying glass but as a whole picture it looks fine on screen and will be ok as quite a large print too.

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A couple of GX9 pictures with the teeny tiny 14-42mm...

42mm, f5.6, 1/500 and ISO 200.

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24mm, at f8 for deep dof, 1/800 and ISO 200. Mrs WW again...

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Where I am now...

I now have the GX80 and GX9 and I'd use either at any ISO up to and including the max of 25,600. My lens line up is now Panasonic 14-42mm Mega OIS, Olympus 9-18mm, Panasonic 45-150mm, Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 and Olympus 17, 25 and 45mm f1.8's. I think that'll do but I may add a long zoom at some point :D
 
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the block of flats down town , olympus om10-mk2 plus a recently acquired 500mm f8 mirror lens . annoyingly I couldn't replicate these results with other shots . I will try again with the tripod and gimbal plus a bit of sunlight
500 mirror test by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr
 
the black fox said:
the block of flats down town , olympus om10-mk2 plus a recently acquired 500mm f8 mirror lens . annoyingly I couldn't replicate these results with other shots . I will try again with the tripod and gimbal plus a bit of sunlight
500 mirror test by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr
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And at the other end of the focal length...........

A quick shot at work today with my new 7 Artisans 7.5mm f2.8

Cloudy blue by Pete Banks, on Flickr
 
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