Just joined the M4/3 cult....

Lucifigus wrote:

Barry Stewart wrote:

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/53-epl5-scp.html

Thanks for that. My my, if I knew it was that convoluted, I may have passed on the purchase. Guy's pages appear to be good resources on the menus. This is what I was looking for in third party material. There few things more frustrating than trying to learn a complex tool by reading the provided directions.

Well, I guess it's time for new neural pathways - this is the stuff that keeps your brain young. Perhaps I will have to buy a new camera more often just to keep my brain young!

Gary

Yes, it was new neural pathways for me too. As a result of a truly bizarre manual. But with an investment of maybe 4 hours spread over several days, I have the camera set up. Guy Parson's web site was a crucial element in mastering the menu. As my travails proceeded I began to feel that I was solving an intricate puzzle, a challenge to my ability to draw inferences from ambiguous data, so I began to feel triumph as I figured each thing out.

At this point I have it set up the way I want it,  with Fn1 for manual focus and Fn2 for focus peaking (I am using the camera for digitization of slides with the great Oly 60mm macro lens, and I have just begun; the results are already outstanding.)

I don't know if this will help you at all, but perhaps it will:

I have the camera set to Super Fine Large, Noise Reduction set at  Low,  and the camera set at Single Auto Focus, and Auto White Balance.

I have made the secret Super Control Panel accessible (Hit the button to the right  of the flash setting. Or I can hit  Info,  based on how I have set up the accessibility of the Super Control Panel.) This is a bit hard for me to explain clearly; I see why the idiots who wrote the manual were unable to explain it clearly.

I leave the mode dial on the top left of the camera set to A (Aperture priority), and leave the two top dials on the right set at the default: control of aperture and control of image compensation.

I have figured out how to easily adjust the ISO and a lot of other settings from the default LCD setting: hit OK and hold it for a second or two, to get the right margin menu, then arrow up and down, and hit OK after every step).

The only thing left for me to conquer is to adjust White Balance. The camera is insisting on Auto White Balance and  I can't figure out how to move it from that in cases where I need to, but I will figure it out.

The good news is that the camera is lovely to use when set up, it is truly excellent, small, compact, and the 20 Pan and the 45 Oly are wonderful lenses. In actual use this is the best camera I have owned since the Pen FT and the Oly OM1.  A delight to use, fast, unobtrusive, reliable, and with fine image quality, just what I want. (Some larger cameras will have slightly better image quality but their weight and bulk and obtrusiveness rules them out for my purposes of low key unobtrusive family and travel photos.)

So, I think you haven't made a mistake, you will likely really enjoy this camera. It really is worth the trouble to set it up.

Krugman