{"id":20657,"date":"2014-09-29T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2018-04-03T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T03:09:50","slug":"revisiting-the-d7k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/09\/29\/revisiting-the-d7k\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the D7K"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using m4\/3 cameras for more than 4 years now, and was running through my records the various camera bodies of this system I’ve picked up over the period.<\/p>\n

March 2010 – Olympus E-PL1<\/a><\/p>\n

April 2011 – Olympus E-PL2<\/a><\/p>\n

May 2012 – Olympus E-M5<\/a><\/p>\n

October 2013 – Olympus E-PL6<\/a><\/p>\n

The E-M5 has been my workhorse camera for almost 2.5 years now and while it’s starting to show its age through the usual nicks and bruises, still functions otherwise well. The E-M5 was joined by the E-PL6 a year ago, and both cameras have found permanent spots in my Messenger bag whenever we’re out of the home.<\/p>\n

I was curious though to see how pictures on a camera with an APS-C sensor fares against these m4\/3s. Nikon has been pumping out new models of its full-frame cameras, but disappointingly, seems to have become uncertain on what to do with their APS-C DSLRs. The D7000 – which I bought in January 2012 – hasn’t seen much use since I bought the E-M5. So, over the weekend, I dusted it off, brought out my two favorite primes for it – the 50mm and 35mm f1.8s – and took pictures at home of our kids.<\/p>\n

\"Peter
Peter still as stony-faced as ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Deep
Deep in contemplation of things important to 5 year olds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"She
She doesn’t pose as willingly anymore though – so memorable shots are harder than ever to come by.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Probably
Probably not evident here, but I messed up the focusing point in this picture, so Peter’s face is somewhat out of focus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Still
Still extremely attached to Mommy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"With
With the 50mm, wide-open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The results were pretty mixed for sure. Running off my head:<\/p>\n

I realized again how helpful the 5 axis built-in optical stabilization on the E-M5 is to picture taking. A small number of shots with the two Nikon primes – and these are both non-stabilized lenses – were out of focus to varying degrees because of camera shake.<\/p>\n

The D7000’s ‘kaplak’ mirror slap each time I released the shutter was very loud compared to the E-M5’s very quiet shutter that I’d gotten so used to.<\/p>\n

The D7000’s back panel buttons and command dials feel a lot more premium than the squishy and small buttons off the E-M5.<\/p>\n

I like the colors coming off the E-M5 than the Nikon D7000’s – so much so that I found myself dialing up the image color saturation setting on the latter.<\/p>\n

Bokeh off the two Nikon primes were marvelous, but the thinner depth of field caught me off guard. Made me realize again how forgiving are m4\/3s when it comes to errors in focusing points.<\/p>\n

The last observation was especially pertinent, since I sometimes wonder if I should give a (mirrorless?) full-frame system a go, and then become cognizant of that adage; that those systems can be extremely unforgiving, and your photographic techniques had better be pretty good already. There is a new but future camera purchase I’m thinking of though at year’s end – will blog about it soon enough.:)<\/p>\n

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I’ve been using m4\/3 cameras for more than 4 years now, and was running through my records the various camera bodies of this system I’ve picked up over the period. March 2010 – Olympus E-PL1 April 2011 – Olympus E-PL2<\/p>\n

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