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Apr 10, 2018
Compact, rugged, great images, highly adaptable
1 of 1 found this helpful This E-M5 replaces another that I've used since 2014, taking tens of thousands of images. It finally died (a broken battery compartment door that is no longer available) and I looked at the Mk2 but don't like the way the screen is hinged.
I take thousands of photos each year for my collector car auction reports and don't baby the camera or lens, yet the E-M5 has kept going, doing exactly what I need it to do including excellent exposure/aperture control and the often-used exposure adjustment to compensate for the harsh backlighting often encountered at auctions. It works well in low light conditions where the stability control helps produce sharp images without flash.
I don't use most of the functions, having arrived at a setup that works for the work I do, the shots I need and the situations in which I shoot, but the E-M5's range of setup options is one of the valuable features that allowed me to find the set that works, then leave it alone.
In the end the fact that I bought another E-M5 instead of going for the new Mk2 is ample evidence of how practical, effective and rugged the E-M5 is.
Jul 23, 2019
The "Prime Meridian" of cars' originality
Denis Jenkinson's "Directory of Historic Racing Cars", despite being a generation old and out of date in so far as its directory goes, is timely as only a thoughtful review by someone knowledgable and informed can be.
What continues to be current are Jenkinson's stages of originality and authenticity defined in his Glossary introduction.
When Jenkinson wrote the Directory in the mid-Eighties he recognized the importance of accurately defining originality, particularly as it affects frequently-modified, and often-rebuilt, historic racing cars, laying down a refined hierarchy of originality that is still valuable as a reference standard today.
A casually interested reader may find Jenkinson's descriptions of individual cars interesting. They are well-written and informed, if dated. And at the nominal price of good used copies it is a worthwhile introduction to the writing art of one of the pioneers of automotive journalism.
It is most useful to someone more intimately involved, a starting place for informed evaluation of racing cars with complex histories, a reference position, like the Prime Meridian or North Star, from which to calculate the originality-position of complex objects.
It is a reference book that I give to those who work with me writing about old cars and the collector car market to inform their opinions, and giving a book to a colleague is pretty much the highest form of flattery for a book.