Hi guys! Trust everyone had a great time enjoying the cny holidays.

Is anybody of the regulars here from JB (Johor Baru)?

Ay seh Man, Oia Village yes? I was there last April 2018. Haven't finish editing all my photos yet Lol

Me too, I missed it too. It's a trip of a lifetime don't you agree?

I got this just now. Said to be the biggest super moon this year known as the Super Snow Moon. Just some basic pp done.

Em5 Mark II + Tamron sp 70-300 on Viltrox Ef-M4/3 adapter. Not bad.

I was thinking about it but the moon is moving all the time so I have no idea if it will work. Probably I will try that tonight


True. The others are Portugal and a few eastern Europe countries like Poland, Hungary etc. Portugal is such an awesome place and will definitely one of my bucket list.

I have ordered Em1 mark II probably receiving it in the next few days, along with the 7-14 Pro lens, on top of the 12-40 which I purchased with the em5 mark II. It's time to switch up a bit my m4/3 experience. I haven't been particularly attached to the gx8, which I though I would. Hopefully the em1 mark II will.

This is the HRS (High Res Shot) from the em5 mark II and cropped with some light pp only. One thing I don't understand is the image file size (in MB terms) isn't as large as I would expect from a 40mp photo. Is this because it's all nothing in the whole photo except the moon (which i reckon take up about 15-20% of the overall photo) and further cropped into? However, the overall clarity is much better than the first one that I took. The same gears are used as the first one.

Compression would probably happens while uploading to Lowyat forum but what I have is before I upload my file is only a few hundred KB in file size! I have to test again soon i find the time. Maybe I didn't get the setting correctly

I suspect that since the whole picture contains nothing but the moon, and the moon which constitute 15-20% (probably much lesser), there would be nothing else to resolve and record as there is an empty space of darkness only, which resulted a smaller file size. Remember that I am using only a 70-300mm lens effectively 600mm at the long end, not much zoom to make the moon appear big on the sensor (screen). For this I might need a 600mm (equiv 1200mm) lens.

There is compression in jpeg agreed no doubt.

I should.

The longer the lens the better most definitely, one will be able to zoom in closer and resolve more detail of the moon. I will try my 150-600mm Tamron one of these days and see where it gets me

Edit: However, I still think those monstrous ultra super zoom 60x or greater is the best bet since they are much much smaller and much much lighter to balance on the tripod compared to dslr or mirrorless lenses.

This post has been edited by bobds78: Feb 25 2019, 04:09 PM

Meet the Nikon P1000, the 125X zoom superzoom camera, equiv to 24 - 3000mm!! zoom camera:

True it has a much smaller sensor. To me this camera is pretty good for birding as it has a dedicated "Bird" dial. This P series line will continue to get better with time as innovations advanced. The sensor is actually smaller than the conventional compacts to enable a much longer zoom capacity.

Yeah good for peeping too

This is exactly what I mentioned earlier. If there are lots of subjects in a frame hence more to resolve by the sensor, more details needed to be recorded and as a result a larger file. In the case of the moon which covers a miserable 15-20% (possibly less) of the sensor a much smaller file will be recorded. So that confirmed why I have a smaller file size than normal. But I will still take some more shots and see for myself when the next chance comes.

Finally, getting my hands on this long awaited switch;



This post has been edited by bobds78: Feb 28 2019, 08:08 PM

Abt 4.5k straight from Taobao.


I couldn't agree more.


I am pairing it with the 7-14 pro & 12-40 pro. I have just tested it on the 12-40 pro for AF speed and its blazingly fast, unbelievable how fast this beast gets. The fastest camera body I have ever owned!!

Pretty technical stuff to me, some said they are the same and some said different. I will leave it to those techie heads to argue to their hearts content. Mujur lah mark II

As for me simple earthling, I will just find some spare time and go out to shoot

Very good article though, thanks for the share

This post has been edited by bobds78: Mar 3 2019, 04:20 PM

Laowa 7.5mm f2 is missing