Olympus e-PM2 - what am i doing wrong?

KeMc wrote:

Hi everyone

I bought the Olympus e-PM2 a couple of days ago, with the kit lens (M.Zuiko 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R).

I wasn't planning on buying a camera so hadn't done a lot of research, but a quick google in the store showed very good reviews, and the camera was half price, so i bit the bullet.

Since then i've been really disappointed with the performance and am considering trying to return the camera - any photos where something is moving is blurred - even in the manual settings, and i can't even get it to focus most of the time in low light and outdoors at night. I was hoping i would get better night time shots than my current point and shoot Sony dsc hx20v, since it's got a bigger sensor, but about 75% of the shots are blurry with the olympus which will drive me nuts.

In the daytime the camera is ok, but still has blur when taking photos of kids, even in kids mode or in manual with a faster shutter speed.

Am i doing something wrong? I'm not that knowledgeable on photography but i feel like a camera should at least be able to take a non-blurry photo in auto or the correct mode for the situations.

If you could post a couple of your photos that show the problem, the settings information (EXIF) in the file will help us figure out what the problem is.  I suspect you are not bumping up the ISO enough to keep the shutter speed fast enough to avoid motion blur, but that's just conjecture at this point.

Post some photos, and the forum will give you a hand with this.

-J