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Kit Laughlin

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    Kit Laughlin reacted to DPC in Olympus E-M5 Mark II - love and hate at first sight   
    I got mine today (I wanted to use it on a specific project very soon). First impressions are that Andrew is being a bit hard on the image quality but I am far from finishing my tests.
    That said, here are a few things that do bother me -
    - no way to adjust exposure or ISO when shooting video
    - no way to do custom white balance in movie mode ( you have to go to stills mode to do this)
    - no enlarged view when manually focusing in movie mode
    - apparently no way to refocus using auto focus while shooting movies
    - there is an INCREDIBLE crop when in movie mode. More than on the GH4 in 4K. I think this is what bothers me most of all. Totally unexpected.
    But...
    - build quality is beautiful
    - peaking seems to work better than on my GH4
    - a quick test combining shutter priority exposure, stabilisation and continuous autofocus was really good (and will be good for quick, steady walk-through shots)
    My reasoning getting this was that it would (more or less) do the job of a gimbal. For what I do I just don't have time to mess around with rigging and it's not practical to have multiple cameras set up on different stabilisation devices. Despite all the drawbacks listed above, I think it might still serve the intended purpose.
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