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| This image was made using the Olympus 300mm f/4 + 2.0x tele-converter. It represents a 1200mm full frame field of view. (click to enlarge) Olympus makes a longer zoom lens, the 150-400mm f/4.5 as well. I don't own one so I can't show you the results of those longer focal lengths. |
This post is meant to be a continuation of my last post about why I just can't bring myself to sell my micro4/3 gear, which you can find here. For those of you who don't care for the micro4/3 format or don't now use micro4/3 for your photography, you may want to just browse through the accompanying images as I think you will find them interesting.
In this post I wanted to illustrate the lens selection micro4/3 brings to the table. The format has everything pretty much covered. The images posted here represent ones I made of the exact same subject from 8mm, which is16mm full frame field of view (FFFOV), to 600mm, or 1200mm full frame field of view. I don't own the shortest focal length nor longest lenses made for the system but one can go even wider (7mm) and longer with the new Olympus 150-400mm f/4.5 (with the built-in 1.25x tele-converter). Additionally the Olympus MC-20 2x tele-converter can be used with this lens giving you an effective full frame field of view of 2000mm. Incredible selection, in my opinion.
Just scroll down and take a look from the shortest focal length to the longest. Then look at the very last image. It is a crop of the image just above it using the 300mm f/4 PRO lens with the 2x tele-converter. I find the camera/lens/tele-converter's ability to record and hold detail rather amazing!
All images were made using my Olympus E-M1 Mark III mounted on a tripod. With the exception of the Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 lens, all images were made with Olympus lenses. I chose the Panasonic 8-18mm lens over the Olympus 7-14mm lens because I can attach filters directly to the front of the Panasonic lens but to use filters on the Olympus 7-14mm lens, one has to buy and attach special (expensive) adapters.
The other lenses that I used were the 300mm f/4 PRO, the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO and the 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro. The camera and/or lenses were attached to my large Induro tripod with a Really Right Stuff BH-55 ball head. One note: It was very windy when I was making these images as there was a cold front approaching. I was worried the wind would affect the long telephoto images. But all seemed to work well.
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Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 @ 8mm. (click to enlarge)
Keep your eye on that tiny building that is dead center of this image. |
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| Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 @ 10mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 @ 12mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 @ 17mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 @ 25mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 @ 40mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 @ 75mm. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 @ 150mm or 300mm full frame FOV. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 + 1.4X tele-converter, 420mm full frame FOV. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 300mm f/4 lens. 600mm full frame field of view. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 300mm f/4 + 1.4x tele-converter. 840mm full frame field of view. (click to enlarge) |
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| Olympus 300mm f/4 + 2.0x tele-converter. 1200mm full frame field of view. (click to enlarge) |
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This is a 1mp crop from the original 20.2mp image file directly above. (click to enlarge)
Take a look at the holes in the metal features on the roof. You can count them easily. |
I hope you enjoyed this little exercise in showing the lens selection available and versatility of the micro4/3 format. Do you think the images and detail hold up well? It does for all my needs. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...
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Dennis A. Mook
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That's quite impressive. Have you tried moon photos? I've read that 300 FFFOV is about the minimum for photos of our moon. With your setup you could probably pick out the fly the Chinese sent up there some time ago.
ReplyDeleteThis is an off-topic question, but is there much of a size and weight difference between your E-M1 and the Fuji X-T3/T4 bodies?
Marcus, thank you. I’ve done a bit of moon photography but it doesn’t much interest me. As far as the E-M1 versus the X-T4, they are almost identical in size. The Olympus weighs 27g. less. The difference for me comes in the size and variety of lenses available for the Olympus. It will be a while before Fujifilm catches up.
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