EM1x and firmware 2 – great owl results with Pro Capture
I recently tested the EM1x and firmware 2.0 at the Hawk Conservancy Trust (HCT). Shooting owls with the new bird AI tracking system and Pro Capture was a revelation. Here…
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HCT Owls
The excellent Hawk Conservancy Trust again, this time shooting owls. The owl display in the summer is at the end of the day, in quite a dark wood. It’s brilliant, but not too great for photography. In winter it’s the first show, and this time I was lucky enough to be there on a sunny day, and to have a great camera with me. I was using the Olympus E-M1x, which had just received a firmware upgrade. This was a testing session to see how the new setup worked, and I was quite pleased with the results.
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