Equipment analysis

In April 2026, I put up five posts describing some testing and analysis of OM Pro zooms with the OM1 Mk II camera. Four of those involved comparisons against the…

In a recent series of tests on systems for wildlife photography—primarily for birds in flight—I have only looked at zooms. However, these are regarded as the cheap and cheerful end…

I have recently posted several articles on the relative performance of OM and Sony wildlife zooms, covering focus accuracy, resolution, and dynamic range, based on actual test data. One thing…

In previous posts, I have compared the focus accuracy and resolution of the Sony A7V and the two Sony wildlife Zooms, with the OM1 mk II and the two OM…

Following on from my earlier OM-1 settings post, here is a spreadsheet of my top OM-3 photo settings across 5 genres; landscape, birds in flight, street, macro and astro. As…

The new OM System OM-3 is the most powerful small digital camera on the market. It achieves this by shoehorning the sensor and imaging pipeline of the pro OM-1 Mark…

The new OM-3 from OM Systems was announced on 6th February 2025. This lovely new camera is a very careful modern rendering of the legendary OM film cameras which were…

In a separate post, I posed the question of what to take for the once-in-a-lifetime camera trip. Can one camera system be the best at all my photography genres –…

Custom settings are a very powerful feature of the OM1 and OM5 cameras. However, there are significant differences between the two cameras in their use. It has taken me a…

Olympus/OM systems cameras have some exceptionally useful features when connected to smartphones. But there are major issues when using the OM1 camera and Google Pixel phones. This post explains why there are…