Florida Nature Photographer

After additional study and waiting to be sure there would be plenty of boats going by I am returning to the scene of the issue. I may or may not be back with my report before the golden hour this...

You don't always need to click O.K. to change a setting on the SCP. Once you have selected the setting you want to change, you can change the setting's value by simply moving the front dial.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a common place to reference things that we learn that aren't covered in the manual. I suggest that we try to keep discussion to clarification of the tips...

I went to my local camera shop yesterday to buy a case and a better strap for my new E-M1. This is the same guy that, a few weeks ago, when I expressed my interest in Micro Four Thirds he said "I...

Funny you should mention that. I've never had a smartphone before but plan to buy one this week. The primary motivator was The Photographer's Ephemeris program which will tell me where and when to...

Thanks a ton for the detailed response! If the effect is there but I can't see it how will I know if I have it turned properly? I recently watched a YouTube video about polarizers and read a...

I put my new polarizer on my 50-100 yesterday and turned it around while looking through the EVF and then at the LCD. I did not see any change as I twirled it. I expected to see the sky get darker...

My local camera shot does not acknowledge the existence of m43. The place I bought the E-M1 is across the country and is probably out of stock at the moment. Thanks. I've got lots of good...

I have traveled to this same area of the country the fall of the past three years. Whether the E-M1 would have arrived in time or not I was not planning to take photographs of the places I went. I...

Hurray!! :-D Thanks! That is what I was doing wrong. I was looking for the same kind of level you get when pushing info. This is a different gauge in a different place. Now that I know what to look...

That works much better than the native dpr search. I'll have to remember that next time I try to find something older. Thanks.

You had me hopeful but it didn't work. I tried style 1 and 2 with the same results. The only way I can  get the level to is by pressing the info button. One of the four views shows it, but all the...

Oh crap! And I spent so much time adjusting to my preference. I guess I should practice again anyway. It should be easier the second time. I hadn't noticed the "different region" settings until I...

Thanks very much. I have book marked that page and will definitely be reading it with camera in hand.

I spent a good bit of time doing just that yesterday. One example (of many)... I saw a thread here telling that the Super Control Panel wasn't turned on by default. When I read through the pdf...

I definitely have a long way to go when it comes to knowledge and experience. My goal is to acquire as much of that as possible this weekend, to give myself the best chance I can to take some...

This along with using the manual focus ring to pre=focus seem to be a common theme in the suggestions I'm getting so I will definitely give that a lot of attention when I try again today. Thanks...

Towards the end of my practice session I tried using the manual focus ring and I would be able to get the shot in somewhat decent focus. Then I pressed the shutter and it would go out of focus again.

Yes, but good suggestion. That turned out to be the problem I was having when taking some of my first test shots in my home. I'm not sure how the focus point ever ended up being out of the center...

No. I didn't. I will try that but I'd still like to understand why S-AF and C-AF did not work. I was not getting an in-focus beep. Sorry if my post wasn't clear. This isn't an issue with focus...