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Olympus Menus

Started Jun 17, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: Olympus Menus
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Todd3608 wrote:

I am looking for a new camera and have narrowed down my choices to the E-M10, E-M1 or GX7. I have owned Olympus cameras in the past like the E-PL5 and E-PM2. I honestly sold them due to the horrible menus. They are the worst I have ever seen on any camera and I have tried lots of them from Fuji, Pentax,Sony, etc. Maybe it's just a personal thing. I was wondering if anything has changed with the menu system on either the E-M1 or E-M10? I would love to see one locally but all that's around here is chain stores that do not carry cool cameras like these. Not trying to start a debate...Just hoping maybe the menus have changed to not be so confusing...

There are 168 items in the Olympus E-M1 menus. They're reasonably well-grouped and understandable, but the way you get to them and the manual makes them more difficult to understand than they actually are. Most are "set once, you're done" kinds of things.

I created a template form so that I could create crib sheets of my usual configuration, just in case I was in the field and had to set a camera up from scratch. Creating the template form made the menus clear and obvious to me since I could then see all the options at a glance and understand their relationships.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25268645/EM1_settings/E-M1_Settings_BLANK.pdf

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