- OM System has just launched an E-M1 Mark III niche with IR cut filter in front of the sensor
- Ainicated to pass 100% of vital Hα rays for astrophotography
- Two astrophotography filters for current cameras of the OM system were also revealed
If yours is astrophotography, then OM System has just launched the camera for you, the star e-M1 Mark III. It is based on the same design and is equipped with the same characteristics as the five-year-old E-M1 Mark III, but with a crucial difference: it has a cutting filter in front of its sensor that is fine to pass through 100% of the Hα rays.
With such configuration, vibrant colors of distant nebulae are revealed, colors that are otherwise invisible to the human eye. I have included photos from side to side supplied by OM System of the same nebula taken with the new e-m1 Mark III star and an e-M1 Mark III regular e-M1 to illustrate the difference that a small filter can make (see below), in addition to other impressive images taken with the new Yutaka Iijima camera.
In addition to the E-M1 Mark III star, OM System has also announced two filters: the suppression filter of contamination of the body mounting (BMF-LPC01) and the soft assembly filter in the body (BMF-SE01), which are available separately, or as a kit included with the new camera.
The filters are designed to place within any of the recent cameras of the OM system, such as the OM-1 Mark II and OM-3, between the support and the lens sensor, which means that it can exchange glasses while the filter remains in place.
The suppression filter of the contamination of light shorts the bleeding of the light of artificial sources, such as street and city lights (an astrophotography ruin), resulting in more vivid night shots. Meanwhile, the soft filter is blurred and highlights the points of points of points (stars), emphasizing its colors to stand out.
Available now only on the OM System website, the E-M1 Mark III star with these two filters costs £ 1,899, while the light contamination filter and the soft filter are available separately by £ 259 and £ 179 respectively (the prices of USA and Australia are TBC).
A sky full of stars
The Chambers of the OM system are a convincing choice for astrophotography thanks to several computational modes that increase the quality of their night shots. These include ‘Starry Sky autofocus’, which should ensure that acquires an acute approach, and ‘High hand resolution shot’ that increases fixed images from 20MP to 50MP (with the daytime movement of corrected stars if the camera is mounted to a equatorial tripod or assembly). In addition, you can also photograph compound live for stars paths.
And if you want to go one step further, the star e-M1 Mark III is now a superior choice. However, it is a bit of a single trick; If you used it for photography that is not star, there will be a reddish / pink color in your images. This can be corrected a bit through white balance settings when editing, or reverse the effect with a UV / go in its lens hot mirror filter at the time of capture.
An alternative to an astrophotography chamber made on purpose is to convert an existing chamber, since the main difference is a particular type of cutting filter in front of the sensor. If you look online, there are several companies that offer this service, generally between $ 350-600 / £ 300-500.
If you know that astrophotography is something that you would like to explore more thoroughly, it is worth considering the new E-M1 Mark III filter kit with filter: you will create vivid astrophotography images simply not possible with a normal camera.
