Some highlights from the South West Photo Show 2025 run by London Camera Exchange for the first time at the Corn Exchange in Exeter.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJOCrehlmsI&t=9s

Featuring Jack Lodge, Gavin Hoey and Ellie Rothnie.

#photography #southwestphotoshow #lce #londoncameraexchange #jacklodge #gavinhoey #exeter #cornexchange #ellierothnie #wildlife #nature #landscape #portrait #exhibitors #sony #canon #nikon #fuji #omsystems #sigma #manfrotto #vanguard

Hm.

Roughly a year ago I decided I had to do something about my slowly declining enjoyment of taking photos. And because I am me, obviously the solution would be to buy a new camera.

Ever since learning about the system I was very intrigued by the while Micro Four Thirds thing. The early prototypes were so pretty. Later I really liked the GF1 (who could forget that Himalaya field test by Craig Mod?) and playing with Teymur’s version 15(!) years ago, didn’t help. Alas, I had my Nikon and at some point Sony started selling “affordable” full-frame cameras, so I went that way.
So when I felt the need to try something new last year, that’s where I looked. Affordable, pocketable (or at least semi-pocketable) and with interchangeable lenses to satisfy the nerd in me? Sign me up.
As much as I like my Sony (and I really do. It is such an amazing camera) – even with the “small” lenses it is a pretty hefty thing to carry around. So my theory was that I could bring a smaller camera with me everywhere to rekindle the fire and use the Sony when I go somewhere with the goal of taking photos.

So now that I’m in the MFT ecosystem (mostly using a Lumix GX–9 that I bought second-hand.) I am obviously watching what is happening. And today OM-Systems launched a new “premium” MFT camera with retro styling, the OM–3. But oh boy: that thing is very pretty but also rather pricey and to be honest – with the SLR styling it currently doesn’t really do it for me. Even if it is roughly the same size as my Lumix, just on a psychological level it doesn’t feel pocketable. And if that pro is gone, I’d rather buy a Sony a7c2 for that money.
So for now I’ll be happy with the GX–9. Let’s see what happens when Panasonic shows up with an updated version of that. Or when OM-Systems comes around with a new Pen-F.

#Lumix #MicroFourThirds #Olympus #OMSystems #Photography

There’s a big fuss this morning because all the photography YouTubers have simultaneously uploaded their OM Systems OM-3 reviews – it looks a great camera, I want one but it’s two grand, so…

However, I notice quite a few of those reviews show the camera wet, and that is because they say it has an IP53 rating so it can be subjected to as much water as you like, I get the impression they’re saying

I don’t think people understand IP ratings – the Ingress Protection code (IEC 60529) – the first number is solid particle protection, usually assumed to mean dust ingress, but this could include hands, fingers, and even large ants according to the table on Wikipedia ( @futurebird have you been editing this table perhaps)

The second digit is liquid protection, and this is perhaps the more complex test

An IP code of IP53 means solid is ‘5’, which is dust-protected (but not dust-tight), and the liquid is ‘3’ which is only spraying of water, not even splashing of water, and not weather protected (or it’d have a W suffix)

It doesn’t mean it’s a bad rating, but I get the impression that as long as a thing has an IP code of IP followed by any two numbers people imagine it to be totally underwater-able and that’s simply not the case, they seem to be ignorant of what the actual numbers imply, as long as there’s some numbers (either that or they think it’s fifty three, which is quite a lot in the same way that fifty three biscuits is rather a lot)

What I’m saying is that the cameras they’re showing covered in water are probably not ones I’d want to buy second hand off them ten years into the future, it’d probably have actual water damage inside it (like my Nikon F4 did, I mistreated that, thinking weatherproof meant weatherproof every single rainy day I had the opportunity to take it out to get wet, and that killed it in the end)

#IPratings #IPcode #IEC60529 #OMsystems #OM3 #camera #IPratings #IPcode #IEC60529 #OMsystems #OM3 #camera

Truco para hacer fotos de tormentas y rayos con una #Olympus ( #OMSystems )
- En @loops : https://loops.video/v/66HB2CaX9G
- En @metapixl ( #pixelfed ): https://metapixl.com/p/petaqui/788893591117621764
@petaqui@metapixl.com

A hungry heron eating a fish in the Exeter river yesterday evening, in Exeter, NH.

#NewHampshire #Olympus #OMSystems #OM1 #omsystemom1 #ExeterNH #River #Heron #birdphotography

Home! and there's enough sun for some easy #MacroPhotography

OM-5, Olympus 60mm, f2.8, 1/3200, ISO 800.

#Olympus #OMSystems #Photography #Bees #YYJ #VictoriaBC

Lyell's bristle-moss growing on a tree trunk. Forests within forests.

Living on a planet that should be forests all the way down.

#Mosstodon #MacroPhotography #OMSystems #YYJ #VictoriaBC

Mr Stussy with his favourite Werder Bremen Colours on Como Bridge

#lightpainting #photography #longexposure #werderbremen #omsystems #stussy

A very dark day. Took a walk though and looked at lots and lots of moss.

These are all cropped from 80mp 'sensor shift' (20mp sensor) raws taken with my #OMSystems #OM5 using the #Olympus 60mm f2.8 #Macro.

These were all taken at f16 with very slow shutter speed (about 1/5 give-or-take) so moss was about the only thing I could take handheld shots of.

Not amazing but a fun experiment.

#Mosstodon #Photography #MacroPhotography