Olympus EM1X

Because the battery drains a lot when you do Live Comp exposures - my Olympus OM-1 was empty, and i had to switch to another battery. Which i had in my hands - and then 30 minutes later - it was and is vanished form the face of earth. Both Sal and I searched the apartment - it just is gone-gone. Which is extremely weird, given that I didn't move much in the living room, but the battery suddenly couldn't be found.

(I found later the third battery - which was in my backpack, when i still carried the Olympus camera to work every day. There i had another Olympus OM-1 battery left). Ultimately, it sort of "equals out". One batter y lost. Another one found.

Still... it is both usual and weird. We frikking searched for over 2 hours. I had the battery with me at hand, near the place where i have my batteries, and the table where I would switch lenses (an battery) cameras. But nothing, absolutely nothing. Nowhere was the battery to be found - despite all the search in common as well most uncommon places. After all, i only was in certain places in those 30 minutes, between I had the battery - and when it disappeared.

Change in the matrix, anyone ?

Well i am not 100% sure, and hope "the battery finds it way back to me". I will definitely keep an eye on this very subject, until it is found again (or not).

So, what I did was to used the Olympus EM1X instead. It too has the Live Comp feature (as most Olympus camera have)

Life Comp star trails with the Olympus EM1X

However after hours of exposure - i notice something unexpected: The Live Comp feature in the EM1X is far more crude. (taken with the same lens, etc)

The star trails look are more jagged and uneven in the original image files - compared to the newer Olympus OM-1 which are way smoother and absolutly straight between the mini-exposures (which all get combined in the camera to a very long exposure)

It surprised me that the EM1X star trails felt so... "unrefined" in direct comparison.

Well ok, i may exaggerate a little bit. The difference is more subtle. Let me say that a bright star, created a star trail with the EM1X that was more often sohwing disrupted areas in between.

The OM-1 produced more smoother looking star trails without or rarely any gaps in between the length. As soon you make am image slightly or partially smaller... well you can't tell the difference. So, it isn't the end of the world. Just something i noticed, because I had to switch from the OM-1 to the EM1X

I have not tested the Live Comp with Olympus EM1 Mark II camera, though - nor with the Olympus OM-5.