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Re: A very Japanese thing.
In reply to rrr_hhh,
4 months ago
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rrr_hhh wrote:
Henry Richardson wrote:
I sure wish there was a way to save my E-M5 configuration so that I could easily get it back.
The E-M5 can be a bit confusing to setup because it has more customization than I have ever seen in a camera before. The menus are very extensive and I am surprised at all the stuff that can be customized. Once it is all setup then it is okay though since I rarely need to go into the menu again. I wish there was a way to save my configuration to the SD card though. Then I could back it up to my computer. It would be hard to get the camera all setup again trying to remember all the various configuration settings I have. Some of the settings interact so that by setting 2 things a certain way you not only get the effect of each of them, but the interaction causes a third desirable characteristic. It would be great to save the config and then if you have to reset the camera you could easily reload the config. When you send a camera in for service it almost always comes back reset so that is another time a saved config would be great. I wish I had kept careful notes about all the changes I have made over time, but now it would be difficult to go through the menus and see what I changed because just by looking at each item in the multi-level menus you can't tell if the current setting is the default or a changed setting.
You can save your settings as a Myset (there are four of them). It is not the same as having them on an SD card, but nevertheless useful. Look in the manual : page 42 explains the Mysets and page 111 et seq. list the settings which can be memorized in the Mysets or reset. It lists the default values which will be restaured by a reset too.
Yes, I know that and I use Myset, but it doesn't address the issue I mentioned and that Guy brought up. If your E-M5 gets reset then it would be nice with such a complex, extensive set of configurations to be able to get it back. Or, if you replace your stolen/lost/broken E-M5 with a new one. As we all know, there are so many settings, some interact with each other, the manual is poor, and names of the items in the menu sometimes are rather cryptic so getting my current configuration back would be a pain and take awhile searching through all the tutorials, forum posts, etc. I could get many of them back, but even now I sometimes see something in my menu and I don't recall why I set it that way. If I search around I can find some rather obscure thing it does though and remember why I set it that way. I am very glad that the camera is so configurable though.
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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com
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