According to the rumours it (and the 40mm kit lens) will have a rubberised coating, suggesting to me that it's designed for action. It will work without an adapter for K-lenses, so it's going to be very chunky - some rumours from people who claim to have seen a model, suggest it will be 'brick like'...

Wow where were they keeping that? In a bag of flour? A few specs of dust are to be expected with old lenses and don't seems to impact image quality,, but these examples are unbelievable!

Not easy framing a shot with a hand on the tiller (unless G was doing what I used to do, and hold the tiller between my butt-cheeks! :blush

I have a lot of similar shots to this, from my time ploughing up and down the Worcs. Avon (well worth a trip G, if you have a couple of months spare!) The main problem is the weak diagonals you tend to end up with...

The colours in the colour version help break the shot up into nice bold bands, which works better IMO. But compositionally it's still not quite there IMO, the right hand side seems slightly unbalanced.

Even if you opened your bedroom window and shot this from the comfort of your spiderman pyjamas, it'd still be a great shot!

Perhaps there will be some 'golden snow'? (Don't eat it! :lol

When I had this lens, I did the correction manually and saved it as a user preset. It's a very simple correction. You might also want to save the cropping action to get rid of the bowed edges to the shot that will result.

Black wool was mentioned on another thread.

I ordered new foam seals, ready cut and self adhesive, from ebay. God they were awkward to fit. I've just run a film through the camera to see if the job worked.

I passed these slightly unsettling billboards earlier today, while listening to my one of my favourite bands on my phone! K7 and F35-70 / M75-150 f4. C&C welcome.



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The OM-D will be a mirrorless camera, a segment where Olympus are already the market leaders (only slightly in front of Panasonic and Sony though). It looks like those three have the mirrorless DSLR segment all wrapped up currently!

What I expect of the OM-D is that it will follow in the Fuji X series tradition of providing plenty of actual physical external controls for a satisfying photographic experience, in contrast with Sony's more menu-driven experience.

It's a great idea IMHO, and you don't have to limit functionality at all.... it's just about putting the key functions on the outside of the camera, so you can just pick it up and use it straight away like a 70's DSLR or rangefinder. The usual menu finctions will be there too, accessed through the equivalent of a fn button...