Quote: It arrived today - it is an Olympus refurb from eBay Germany for a little over 650 smackers and the eBay description did not include everything you would expect in a new box so I had my fingers crossed, but as it turns out the box is complete (flash etc) and I can't see a mark on the camera. I am thinking of putting in a complaint because the battery is not charging quickly enough
The Panny 45mm, 100-300 and Leica 180 APO are all lined up and ready to go......learning curve? What's that?

I`ve added some camera profiles for the OMD if your interested.

http://www.ephotozine.com/downloads/lightroom-camera-profiles-448

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I found no advantages in using legacy zooms and sold all mine, well two, a 75-150, and a 35-105.

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Your budgets not great, but it will be enough to get you started, these offers are quite good.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMC-G3-16-1MP-Compact-System/dp/B004ZKHAWM/ref...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Olympus-Compact-System-Camera-Double/dp/B005J2JN1Q/ref=s...

And you could have a look at second hand.

This deal is pretty good, mainly because of the lens, its a good travel lens.

http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Olympus-E-P2-+-14-150mm-lens_74447.html

Or this twin lens kit.
http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Panasonic-DMC-GF2-+-14-42mm-+-14mm-pancake-%5BDou...

If it was me I would either be looking at second hand, or a decent high spec compact.

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Why

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It arrived today, its well made and adds comfort to my GF2 as well.

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Quote: But to ask for free, and makes it sounds like I should be grateful for them to even consider me, I would have to pass on that. Though, I am not going to be rude

Cole you should be just grateful, very grateful

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The first load I uploaded went a bit viral and were downloaded in the hundreds, if think the most popular were for the 45mm and 12-50mm, I believe the 45mm daylight alone saw something like between 600 and 700 downloads, just a pity there was a small bug meaning any file downloaded had a file size of 0 bytes and would not work

Hope it hasn`t put anyone off.


Quote: My modest offering is still AWOL

I`d put a report in or re-upload, not sure how popular it would be though, you should have done one for Canon or Nikon

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The profiles are back up for download now the bug has been fixed, I`ve also added profiles for the GF2.

They can be found here.

http://www.ephotozine.com/downloads/lightroom-camera-profiles-448/p-0

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Quote: In such a shoot (smoke involved) you might be expected to provide a 'Risk Assessment', and also a 'C.O.S.H.H. assessment.' The outdoor location will negate the requirement for a 'Fire Risk Assessment' and should make life easier where C.O.S.H.H. is concerned

Control of substances hazardous to health, that is what C.O.S.H is all about, no need for any such assessment.

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Conrad I uploaded this zuiko lens compatibility chart a few year ago, and its been a very popular download.

Although it was originally writen for 4/3 camera`s it also applies to the M4/3 format.

http://www.ephotozine.com/download/zuiko-4-3-lens-compatibility-chart-192

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The accessory port on the back of the OMD, what type of connector do you it think it takes.

I want to knock up a flash cable so I can use the little supplied flash off camera freeing up the hot shoe.

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I`ve only ever had one SD card fail on me and that was down to my daughter when she was smaller, she tried to push a card in the wrong way round breaking the little lock switch off

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Quote: 1841 William Henry Fox Talbot patents the Callotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies

I lived a few doors from his house in Reading and close to were he had set up a small factory, the water for his processing came strait out of the River Kennet

http://openplaques.org/plaques/9435

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The wife worked as a photo consultant for a number of years, we had loads of mugs, pens, lanyards, card readers and pen drives, don`t know what happened to them all now

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Unless there is also a zuiko to m42 adapter floating around somewhere

Those tubes could be useful on here, I believe a few use m42 adapters and lenses

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The extension tubes will be good with that zuiko 50mm.

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Yes that is handy

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How come, has it a built in optical trigger.

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The rewind button

Was there by any chance T20 or T32 flash included Conrad.

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Quote: My brother kindly donated a few attic finds to me, including an OM10 (seems to be out of order)

Have you tried it using fresh batteries, without power nothing will work.


Quote: And figure out how to separate the 50mm from the OM10 body...

There are two slotted type buttons on the sides of the lens, one is a DOF preview, the other is the lens unlock button.

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Quote: One question: in this MFT consortium, are flashes completely compatible as well between Oly/Panny?

For TTL yes, but I`m not so sure about the Panasonic units working in RC mode.

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Quote: Thanks Nick, but I don't believe it's him. Some extra details are below, from a screenshot. I've been subscribed to one or two genealogy websites, although currently I'm not.

From memory, he was a driver for the ASC, and I think he was assigned to the BEF headquarters at St Omer, which wasn't far from the military hospital where he apparently died. There was a family tale that one brother committed suicide soon after learning his brother's fate, but all of the facts seem to deny that—the two brothers died months apart. They'd had a rough life; their mother died in her early 30s when they were kids, which seems to have split the family apart. One thing I'd like to know is what kind of 'driver' he was - might have meant either motor car or horse and carriage at the time I think (he was a 'carman' before the war, which is similarly ambiguous).

Lol you lot have got me doing some searches today, I found this from the London Gazette dated the 1st January 1943 were it was announced he had been awarded an OBE, I`m not sure if there still awarded to the serving military personal any more.



All of his medals and other bits and pieces from WW1 are kept in a military museum now , not sure were, I`ll have to find out.

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Here is something a bit closer to home.

http://bfbs.com/news/uk/first-world-war-trenches-raf-halton-come-alive-49746.htm...
http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafhalton/aboutus/restoredww1trenches.cfm

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What kind of lighting will you be using.

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If your a user of both Lightroom and Photoshop then cloud will more than likely be worth it, there both combined as one app.

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You can turn a white background black

My point about using a light background is you can give it any colour or shade of grey you like.

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In that case get something light grey.

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White

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Generally the main times I use profiles is at a wedding or shooting portraits, these are generally the times when I need a more consistent base level to work from.


Quote: whereas in my experience colours do teeter on the edge a little more with home-made profiles. I think that's by Adobe design, but could equally signify a need for me to refine my profile-making technique!

Care is needed, I first set a custom WB then photograph the target taking care not to clip the highlights or shadows, exposer needs to be spot on, its pretty fool proof using the xrite software, if you did happen to clip something, the software will flag a warning and not let you proceed.

A lot of people complain that working from Raws with Olympus Cameras there well loved colours are lost, profiling comes very close to getting these colours back.

The profiles I have shared are just good generic profiles like I said, it would be pretty pointless sharing some of my others

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Yes a lot of units will be a bit heavy attached to the x10, I prefer to connect via a lead.

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My understanding is that although all sensors vary slightly, when fitted to a camera they are then calibrated to tight tolerances.

I guess some of you would rather run the Adobe default profiles in Lightroom, I don`t know about other camera`s but I know the single profile used for Panasonic and Olympus is pretty horrible.

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I ordered one from Amazon on Saturday but missed the grip I linked to here so I`m paying a tenner for mine, I believe its identical, lol guess a tenner is still cheap enough, I think the originals sell for about 60 quid.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CDJAN44/ref=pe_385721_37038051_pe_217191_31005151_...

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I guess some people don`t think, all there seeing is $ signs.

I`ve always wanted to walk the whole length of the Ridgeway from west to east, its dotted with historical sites, all this makes me even more interested in doing the walk, there is more than one location with WW1 practice trenches.

The one pictured here is a little over grown.

http://www.petes-walks.co.uk/Latest%20walks/w2013/w20130504/w20130504_4.htm

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Quote: Mike Harding's moving tribute to the Accrington Pals lost during the Battle of the Somme.




Says it all really !

He also made one for Bomber Command that is very good as well.

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Amazon now sell these via there market place and there dirt cheap starting at £5.50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DSLRKIT-Thumbs-Camera-X-Pro1-Panasonic/dp/B00D86UQWK/ref...

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If the filters for just for protection I get the cheapest filters I can find, unless I`m shooting in really bad conditions there left sitting in the bag.

This is just an old habit of mine, I used to shoot a lot of motor cross, a protection filter was essential, but I found it pointless using expensive filers as they were for ever getting scratched and ruined.

For polarisers, ND filters etc I get the best I can afford.

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Hehe great stuff

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Believe it or not there are WW1 trench systems here in the UK, these were used for experiments in trench design and training.

http://www.ridgewayfriends.org.uk/Herepath.html
https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=%27MBC14396%27

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I had forgotten that series, a good find

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There was some series on sky a while ago called the trench detectives, I found it all fascinating, might be worth looking out for since these things get re-run so often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsrcgNBfHFc

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From time to time they still dig up canisters of mustard gas.

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Hehe I`ve seen plenty of that sort of thing, the farmers plough them up all the time, then pile them up on the edges of there fields to be collected, rather them than me

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An alternative to a bridge camera is a compact system camera, check out places like London camera exchange in there second hand section.

There are some good deals to be had like this twin lens GF2 kit than can take a separate evf if needed.

http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Panasonic-DMC-GF2-+-14-42mm-+-14mm-pancake-%5BDou...

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And Billy Ocean, we will be seeing him in August

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Any of you want a cheap backup camera for 299, kit includes the 14-42 and the 14mm.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMC-GF3-14mm-14-42mm-3-5-5-6/dp/B007FOWRZK/ref...

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How about a panasonic GF3 twin lens kit for £299, kit includes the 14-42 and the 14mm pancake.

The GF3 fitted with the 14mm is smaller the my fuji x10 compact

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMC-GF3-14mm-14-42mm-3-5-5-6/dp/B007FOWRZK/ref...

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Yes I agree, nothing beats having your own, I`ve just shared a handfull that will improve daylight and flash somewhat, there better than the adobe standard profile and will give a better base level to work from.


Quote: but last night's effort seems to have disappeared into the ether (it was the right file type)

They will take a few days to show, but I`ve sent in a report, the files get minced during the download and will not work, the also show as 0 bytes of data

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