After many years carrying heavy cameras, lenses and tripods my shoulders and back are no longer up to long days out in the field photographing wildlife. I am on the look out for a lightweight alternative to my heavy Canon gear which will still give me the opportunity to do macro and some bird photography with adequate quality.
I know a few photographers who have recently tried out the micro 4/3 system and decided to give it a try myself. London Camera Exchange in Colchester kindly offered to let me try out an Olympus OM-D E-M1 with the Olympus 12-40 f2.8 zoom, Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro and Olympus 75-300 lenses.
Here are a couple of shots (both handheld). Obviously the quality of images from a micro 4/3 camera is never going to be as good as that I get from my Canon 1DX but they are much better than I expected and perfectly acceptable. Let's face it a picture of slightly less quality is much better than no image at all because you left all your heavy equipment in the camera bag!
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| Grey Squirrel. Olympus 75-300 at 240mm 1/500 at f8 ISO 800 |
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| Bee on flowers Olympus 60mm Macro 1/1250 at f4 ISO 400 |
