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Englishman in France wrote:

I have an E-M5, and whilst I like the camera for what it is, and am of a similar opinion to you. The menus, mysets and the fact that only certain functions can be programmed to certain buttons is not to my taste either, and therefore avoid avoid using them. I don't think the super control panel is perfect, but it does help.

I have played with the E-M10 and E-M1 and in a local electronics shop. I found the E-M10 very similar to my E-M5. However, the E-M1 was much better due to the extra buttons. For example, you don't have to delve into the menus to access bracketting. If you aren't able to try before you buy, I think you would be taking less of a risk with the E-M1 than the E-M10. Just my opinion.

Good luck.

I didn't say anything about the LACK of customization, but you are right, Olympus is not as customizable as people make out. For example, the E-P5 assigns White Balance to the front wheel when you flip the switch to Mode 2, and there's no way to change this to something more useful. (I always shoot RAW, I have no desire to set WB to anything other than Auto.)

However the post-EM-5 cameras are a big step up in customizability becuase you can set the 4 MySets to the unneeded modes on the mode dial. (EM-5 didn't have this very useful feature. Why not? I don't know.) Although why the Mode dial doesn't also include "C1", "C2" etc. I don't get.