OM System OM-1

And this is an OM Digital Solutions OM-1 camera with a 12 to 40 lens attached to it. Now, I think what OM has done here is create a really throwback camera in terms of how it used to feel when they first came out with cameras. So what they've done here with the OM-1 is create a Micro Four Thirds camera body, but it feels and looks like how they used to produce camera bodies. And with the OM-1 that they've created here, it has a lot of capability. Number one, the image quality is really good with these cameras. And what they've done is created a camera that like I talked about with the Tamron, it's small, it's lightweight, and it's fast. This camera is really built for the adventurer. Somebody who goes out and wants to do a day hike with their family and then come out later early the next morning and shoot the sunrise that they scouted with their family. This can go around water. This can go on snow. If you're snowboarding, this would be a great camera to take with you because it is so small and lightweight, durable, and this has some of the best weather ceiling that's on the market for any kind of camera. And if you've been out shooting in wet conditions, hot conditions, freezing cold conditions, you want weather ceiling. In my career I've broken three cameras. And maybe this is like a theme that's occurring to many times in this live presentation with me breaking my camera gear, but I put it through a lot of extreme conditions. And a lot of my older camera bodies just couldn't hold up. But this one with the ratings that they're getting with their weather ceiling, I would be really interested to take this out, not only in the hot, extreme desert of Death Valley, but also to the extremes of like Iceland or Greenland or somewhere like that. And in the rain. You can basically spray this down with a hose and you're not gonna have any water get into it. Did I try that? Maybe? I don't know. So what I love about this camera is that it's built for the adventure. I love to kayak. I love to stand up paddleboard. And being in Tennessee, I have a lot of lakes around me, and this can go anywhere around that area where other cameras I would be kinda worried to have them dip into the water at all, or have them be splashed by the water. I wouldn't worry about that too much with this camera. And with the lens that it comes with, this is a kit lens that it comes with, this is a professional lens. And usually when you say, well, this is just a kit lens, people use that word, just, with this one you're not going to use that word, just. This is a powerhouse lens that is a kit lens. It's a 12 to 40, but it's a f/2.8 lens. So you're getting a lot of range within that. And with a micro four-third sensor, you're getting that wide angle look with a 12, which you would need for a wide angle look with a sensor size like this. But that's gonna give you a lot of that really wide foreground, wide sides coming into the scene and creating that wide angle look. But you're also able to zoom in and have a 40 millimeter look with it too. This is fast enough and has a wide enough aperture to be able to shoot at night. So you wouldn't worry about that. This lens can basically do anything you want to just like the camera will. So this is a great camera body. Not to mention, when you're dipping into mirrorless cameras, a lot of times, especially when they say they wanna go back to a retro design, they get smaller in the camera body and it's much thinner and lighter, but it's a lot harder to grip. And that's one of the issues that I've seen going from DSLR to a mirrorless camera is that the grips are much smaller and people with larger hands, I've got some pretty big mitts on me. I want a good grip that I can really grasp, especially if I am doing adventure type stuff with this camera. This is honestly the best grip that I've ever felt on any camera system. And I've shot with Cannon, Sony, Fuji, Nikon. I've run the gambit on kinds of cameras that I've shot with and this is the most comfortable-feeling camera that I've ever held in my hand. Easily can do it with one hand too. I think one of the cool features about this is that with the weather ceiling, it's also very protected. So it has an LCD screen on the back that has weather ceiling on it. So you can flip that around and keep it protected when you are in the elements, especially when you have this around your neck and you're hiking and it's maybe misting, or rainy, or you're in the fog a little bit, or maybe you're next to a seascape or something like that. Then when you're ready to shoot, you can just whip this around and flip it back and you have the LCD screen here. Maybe if you're a YouTuber or vlogger, you can also have this flipped around so that you can see yourself on camera with a wide angle lens like this. That would be a great feature to use it for too. And then a lot of times you get these cameras with specific bells and whistles, a lot of fun stuff they put into it. Usually I don't really pay much attention to those things 'cause half the time I don't even use them. But with this camera, I think one of the coolest features that they have, since this is built for people who are adventurous and out and maybe don't wanna carry a lot of extra gear, there's a setting in here where you can actually shoot long exposures without a tripod. And I didn't believe it, but you can actually hold it still like this, turn the setting on, take the photo. We're talking seconds long where you can take a photo of even something like a waterfall, and it's gonna turn out very clean and sharp. I don't know how they do it. I'm assuming they're stacking images together and then it processes them all at once, finding the hard edges, but that's one of the coolest, special features that I call them, put into a camera that I had never seen before. And when I saw it and read about it, I thought to myself, you know what? That's literally something that I would definitely use, even maybe not all the time going out and shooting like, quote-unquote, professional photos for clients and things like that. But if I were to just go out for fun, just go hiking, 100% I would use that feature and a lot of other features in it too. So I really enjoy using this camera, especially for those day hikes and family adventures. Maybe not when I'm carrying just tons of all of my equipment. This one is so easy just to throw in a day hike bag, take it out, shoot, put it back in. So I definitely recommend this camera for anybody who loves the day hike, loves the adventure lifestyle. This is gonna... All right, I've got a couple comments that I'd love to get to here and open it up for any questions that anybody has about this camera that David just featured. It's time to drop them in the chat box. Our username Pooch Picks just figured out how to use the chat. So if that's you, if you've been wondering, "How do I get these questions to David?" Check either below the video player if you're watching on the website, or if you're on YouTube or Facebook you can use the chat function there and the questions will come through. So welcome, welcome. We've got a comment from Jim. Jim is from Fort Wayne. "Just got the Tamron 100-400," and is looking forward to using it for birding and an upcoming trip to Antarctica. So that sounds pretty exciting. Hope that will work out well for your trip. That's going to be really great. While we're talking about lenses, David, the first question that I do have goes back to the lens that you featured first, and this is from Sheila. So Sheila wants to know if it fits on the Nikon camera, the lens that you featured. Yeah, so for that, what you need to do is you can look this up, the 150-500 and see if they have a mount that fits that. So be sure on your Nikon you know what kind of mount that is. I talk about Sony E-mount. That's only gonna fit E lenses. So when you go to the Tamron website, they have a dropdown option for you to fit your actual mount. And then when you click out like Nikon, whatever mount you have, you can see all the lens options there for you. And like I said, they don't just make like, here's this lens for Canon. They make comparable lenses for all camera users. So you're gonna find something that's comparable to this lens, if not this exact same lens. All right, and speaking of the chat box, if you didn't join us right at the top of this event, we are running a sweepstakes, our summer sweepstakes. And there is a link in the chat box from our team that you can follow and you can enter for a chance to win. There are four prizes in there. A 150-500 Tamron lens, a $250 gift card to mpb.com, a 20 by 30 metal print with float mount hanger from Bay Photo, or a camera kit from OM Digital Solutions. So those four prizes are up for grabs in our summer sweepstakes. You can find the link in the chat box. It's a fantastic way to maybe get your hands on some fun gear. Keep your questions coming in, even if you would like to jump back to any of the earlier products that David is featuring. But in the meantime, no questions have come in about the camera you just featured. So if you've got another product you'd like to show us, David, it's time to move right along. Okay, I did wanna mention the price on that, so I forgot to, the OM Digital Solutions, OM-1. So that camera body is gonna be 21.99, the lens itself separate is gonna be 9.99, and then to have the kit together is 31.99. So a great value for all-in-one lens, but moving on to the next one. You mentioned in the sweepstakes. Oh, go ahead. Sorry, just a quick question. If you could let us know the current camera you just reviewed. Dana missed that intro. This one is the OM Digital Solutions OM-1 camera. It's their latest one that they've come out with and it's a great all-in-one camera. A throwback to to cameras that they used to make. Carrie wants to know if you have any cons or wishlist items you wish were on that camera as you were featuring it that maybe it doesn't have. I think that's a great question. So one of the things that I wish it had was a larger sensor. And for me, that is only because I do like to print my images large. So there are different things that you can do to get around that, which I'll get to in just a second, but with a sensor size like this, you would be really hard-stretched to get an image in a 20 by 30 like those that I just showed you that are big prints that I was struggling to even get on camera here. So they're big prints and they take a lot of image resolution. And with a Micro Four Thirds, it's tough to do that. Now, one of the things that you can do to get around that is take multiple photos and stack them together in Photoshop and that increases resolution, or you can use, there's an actual super resolution option in Lightroom that you can use for smaller sensors. So if you did buy this camera and you found that the resolution for a print wasn't where you wanted it to be, what you could do is go into Lightroom, go to Photo while you're developing in it, and then go to, I believe it's Resolution, click on it, and it'll give you a super resolution option to actually add resolution in detail to your photo, and that would be a good fix for that. So no matter what camera you get, Micro Four Thirds, full-frame, medium format, you have options of workarounds to get around the the cons that can come with it. So there are always those workarounds. So I don't know if there's like ever a con, quote-unquote, to a camera, unless it just like continuously fails and breaks on you. There are always these little work arounds. At this point it's 2022. We're well within the digital photography realm and there's all these technology fixes that you can use to add resolution to your images.