more m43

I sold off a few more lenses I haven't used in years and got an OM System OM-5. It has a pretty specific function, which is "weather resistant, very small camera with more versatility than an X100." 

People complain about the OM-5 because it wasn't much of an upgrade over its Olympus E-series predecessor, and yeah ... the tech is older. But it's weather sealed, and with a 20mm pancake it is a little smaller than an X100. 

I got a good deal for it and the WR kit zoom, and I have the WR Olympus 20mm/f1.4, too. The whole thing fits in a Peak Design 5L Everyday Sling with room to spare for a packable backpack in case I swing through somewhere and need more carrying capacity, plus batteries, and another m43 lens or two.  It's super lightweight and I love just grabbing it all and bringing it along. 

I've been security-blanketing by shooting raw+jpeg for the past week until I could feel like I understood how all the picture modes and controls worked. I learned that Olympus in-camera controls feel a little easier to oversteer than Fujifilm's, and I learned that the Olympus PEN series has a few more Fujiesque in-camera settings features than the OM series. 

I do miss the picture control settings you get in the PEN-F. The OM-5 has fewer and they're a little less interesting. You get "natural," "muted," and "vivid," plus a monochrome setting, then you're kicked over to the ART presets, which are the kinds of toy settings I could do without. I found a setting that let me edit them all out of the rotation. 

For my purposes, reflected in this set, I'm pretty happy with "natural" plus some tweaks to contrast, saturation and the shadow tones. The output is about what I would edit to if I were working with the raws, so I'm happy. 

These were all taken with the Olympus 20mm/f1.4 Pro.