{"id":6184,"date":"2013-10-04T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:22:50","slug":"chicken-mounted-stabilised-video-camera-or-the-run-and-gun-olympus-e-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"Chicken mounted stabilised video camera or the run and gun Olympus E-M1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this amazing and quite funny adventurous chook with a video camera mounted to it&#8217;s head to ensure an image stabilised video even parachuting or going down a waterfall thanks to the chicken&#8217;s wonderful oculo-vestibular reflex which keeps its head still, then you need to do yourself a favour and check this Youtube video out:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xbd7TtKrDFc\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:microfourthirds\" target=\"_blank\">Micro Four Thirds<\/a> users, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem1\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus OM-D E-M1<\/a> has the best non-chook <a title=\"image stabilisers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:is\" target=\"_blank\">image stabiliser<\/a> built in &#8211; the sensor-based enhanced 5-axis IS system which works with ANY lens, and is so effective, it allows hand held shots longer than 1 sec with wide angle lenses to give those lovely flowing water waterfall\/creek shots or blurred crowds, but not only that, it allows you to do away with looking after chooks or holding heavy, expensive stabiliser rigs, and allows you to have a very portable, fun to use, run and gun video kit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86ND5X8SjSQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the great reasons to buy the Olympus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusep5\" target=\"_blank\">E-P5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem5\" target=\"_blank\">E-M5<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem1\" target=\"_blank\">E-M1<\/a> cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and dpreview.com has just posted a full review of the E-P5 &#8211; see <a title=\"review\" href=\"www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/olympus-pen-e-p5\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;for the first time really, the E-P5 is a PEN model that offers a competatively complete camera &#8211; with the image quality, focus speed and user interface all coming together to offer a strong package. Of course its rather high pricing means it has to stand up to the E-M5 &#8211; one of our favorite mirrorless cameras so far &#8211; but if you want something a little smaller, the P5 does a good job of standing its ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the ability to easily transfer images to a smartphone (yours or someone else&#8217;s) proved to be rather liberating &#8230;&#8230; the Olympus system isn&#8217;t quite &#8216;click to send&#8217; but it&#8217;s one of the easier to configure and initiate systems we&#8217;ve so far encountered&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8211; seems to have a bug in the firmware or &#8220;shutter shock&#8221; as &#8220;Unusually prone to blurred\/shaken images at certain shutter speeds (around 1\/160sec)&#8221; &#8230; hmmm 1st time I have heard of this issue, and I haven&#8217;t noticed this on my E-M5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this amazing and quite funny adventurous chook with a video camera mounted to it&#8217;s head to ensure an image stabilised video even parachuting or going down a waterfall thanks to the chicken&#8217;s wonderful oculo-vestibular reflex which keeps its head still, then you need to do yourself a favour and check this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,55],"tags":[18,241,14,293,20],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-video-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-stabiliser","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}