OM-1 Mark II

Hey, what's up guys? Professional outdoor photographer, David Johnson here for outdoor photography guide. And in this video, I'm going to be explaining why the OM system om one mark two is the take it anywhere, do anything you want fixed for outdoor photographers? Let me ask you a question. When you're working on a project, you want the right tools and you want the right performance. Do you not? Well, in photography, we want the same thing out of our camera. We want the tools that can do the job for us that give us the result that we want. And that's what all photographers need. The OM system O and One Mark two did that for me. And then some, I tested this out with both landscape photography and wildlife photography and the results were phenomenal. Let me break it down into each category. So you can see why this is a do it all camera for outdoor photography. I recently took this camera to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to test out its durability. Specifically the IP 53 weather ceiling test. Now, a lot of cameras will tell you that they are weather resistant. This camera touts that it's weather proof up to extreme temperatures or extreme elements. Now, this camera shined in freezing temperatures. It can go up to negative 10 °C freeze proof. But I was out photographing in extreme winds and freezing temperatures at the highest point in Tennessee capturing morning frost and ice and snow paired with some beautiful sunrises in the Great Smoky Mountains. It performed fantastically. I even took it out into some rain to photograph some waterfalls and it did great. I never had to worry about my camera getting wet and stopping working. Now, I wanted to put this to the extreme test. So I actually set this camera up on a tripod and put on the jet setting on my hose and sprayed it all over at different angles and came on right away, worked perfectly. So the weather ceiling on this camera is incredible. I've even buried some of their cameras that have the IP 53 in ice and snow and they worked great right after I brought them out. Now, another feature that I loved is the live Indie feature that goes up to Indy 128. This is great because I'm able to take long exposures and some of them I was even able to shoot without a tripod. But typically I did use them with a tripod. You also get a graduated live Indie filter up to Indie Eight with this camera which allowed me to capture some really good high dynamic range photos of sunrise with shadows in the foreground and bright highlights in the sky and in the background. This was great for me, for my photography because I honestly hate using filters in the field. Having them built into the camera was amazing. The live in D filters were fantastic for waterfall photography too. And I was actually able to handhold shots like this and get fantastic results with the live Indie feature setting it up on the tripod. Never made me feel unsafe with this camera of getting the live Indie shots to streak that water movement and get those perfectly milky water textures in my waterfall photography. I'll be really honest with you when I was using this camera and looking at it for taking only this camera with me on my trip. I was worried about lens selection, but I was fascinated to use this lens this 12 to 45 millimeter wide angle lens for the system one mark two. It's a fantastic lens, sharp, sharp details in this lens allowing me to capture all the details and the trees, the mountains, the waterfalls that I wanted to get. Now, speaking of lenses and transitioning over into wildlife photography, yeah, you can get some niche wildlife photos with this lens right here. But for wildlife photography, let's transition into this bad boy. This is the OM system 150 to 600 millimeter lens and I use this for wildlife photography nonstop the sense of range on this lens. A 150 to 600 was phenomenal. I was never worried about not having enough reach for my wildlife and I was able to zoom way out when it came to getting shots that were closer to me. But let's talk about some of the specs on the camera that helped me with my wildlife photography. When I was using this number one, the autofocus tracking on this camera is phenomenal. It's very quick and you can set it to A I tracking points that are associated with humans, birds, all different kinds of animals and can even be situated right on their eyes. It's extremely fast when you're looking at the live screen on the back and you're able to see when you have exact tax sharp focus. Now, I used this camera to test with the ultimate wildlife trouble for me and that is bird photography and it tracked incredibly well, even how fast birds move, flying around, getting into different angles, moving around in different light. This camera did an amazing job tracking that every step of the way. Now tracking is one thing. But what about getting the shot, getting that one frame in the past, I've missed frames with other cameras. That would be the perfect shot. But with this one, I never had to worry about that because you can actually photograph it up to 100 and 20 frames per second with this camera with very limited buffering time. This is like a powerful computer and a little camera allowing you to buffer less and get more frames per second. Capturing those very special moments in time. The autofocus subject detection along with the fast frames per second is the perfect match for any wildlife photographer. And dare I say I even enjoyed my time photographing birds, which is actually saying something in photography. If you haven't looked into the OM system, om one mark two yet, I would highly recommend you doing so it can go anywhere, it can do anything you want it to. And it's small, compact, has plenty of lens solutions for you and is a great fit for any outdoor photographer no matter what you enjoy photographing.