Astrotripper

Everything. Nowadays, Panasonic even does IBIS, so the only advantage Oly might have had for video is gone.

Wide, cheap and pancake? You want too much, I'm afraid :-) I see three options. Replace your kit lens with a 12-32 for a nice, compact 24mm equivalent ar the wide end. Or go with 14-42 PZ and add ...

Things are only going to improve here. I expect E-M1 successor to further close the gap when it comes to things like AF and all around performance. And once more pressing matters are taken care ...

Go for 42.5/1.7 or Oly 45 if you can get it cheaper and don't care for OIS. Why? Because it will be useful for all the scenarios you listed. Will work great for portraits. Will do for product ...

Agreed. After all, this is a gear forum. For me, probably the biggest learning experience was getting a Sigma DP2M and shooting with that almost exclusively for couple weeks. I had no idea that ...

Not that it cannot happen, but that would make it a very crowded period for Panny. what would they release for the remainder of the year? So I suspect it will come this fall. But if GH5 comes now, ...

In recent interview, Panasonic rep said that sales of GM series did not meet expectations. That means they overestimated demand and most likely made too many of them. That's why we can still buy ...

After spending some time on forums like this, I have a feeling photography enthusiast tend to go through few distinct evolution phases (order may vary): (1) It's all about pretty pictures - wants to ...

At best, it will be full sensor readout downscaled to 4k. Probably only in cinema 4k mode (24fps). Because that's what the 20mp sensor is capable of. The above would mean improwed low-light ...

Olympus has a patent for 8-20/2.8-4.0. It never happened and never will, as they went with 7-14. It's too small of a market probably, to justify lenses so similar, pana oly competition ...

Out of those three, I would say 12-60 is out. The other two are not perfect, but can be used for this kind of stuff. No, that f/1.7 makes it a decent performer. Here's my thread about it . Those ...

Those are actually much less demanding of AF than sports like hockey, football and so on. You can probably cover most of situations by focusing once on where the action is and going from there. ...

Ideally, you would go for GH4 or GX8. Both much improved over GH2 in every way, AF and low-light performance included. But those are very expensive cameras. On the lower end side, G7 and GX80 might ...

Had it. Got a bad copy, so it went back. But I agree, it's a decent affordable option for astro. I feel that on MFT, f/2 is really an absolute minimum for this kind of stuff. Here's one shot I made ...

I'm using it mostly for this. Unfortunately, I rarely put my shots online, here's my fishy album on flickr . One of the shots I posted here was also shot with 7.5. And here's one from my tests of ...

You do have a point, this lens is probably not the best choice for this kind of stuff. And you can't really get close-up shots with it as the DOF gets even more shallow. Nevertheless, I do like ...

That's a good point. Unfortunately, that really would have to be done with cropping in post, as the lens produces such shallow DOF that it's pretty much useless as you get closer to its minimum ...

Yeah, it's my favourite one as well. No. That one I struggled to get and I'm not fully happy with the result. I wanted to convey the fact that this was a flower bed and that there were plenty of ...

There's no such thing as fast enough for astro. There's a huge difference between a night shot at ISO 800 and ISO 3200, believe me. For astro, yes. Otherwise, no. Nocticron is a medium telephoto ...