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Olympus camera (PM2/PL5/PL6) settings questions

Started Apr 25, 2015 | Discussions thread
Godfrey Forum Pro • Posts: 29,636
Re: Olympus camera (PM2/PL5/PL6) settings questions

You made me curious and my E-PL1 was handy, so I set anti-shock to 1 sec and continuous capture with JPEG+raw enabled.

The camera exposes every second with the shutter held down and does buffered writes to card as it goes. After about eight shots, it cannot empty the buffer fast enough so the time between shots is extended by 2x or more. Releasing the shutter at that point and the camera keeps writing to the card for half a minute.

Switching off raw capture and doing just max resolution/best quality JPEG, it can write the buffer fast enough that it will keep going until the card is full as long as the shutter is held down.

I hadn't thought of using anti-shock to create a limited intervalometer before... I'll have to drag out the E-M1 or E-PL7 and see how they do. They've got much more buffer than the E-PL1 (I think) and write faster.

Interesting opportunities for stop motion movies ...

Oh yeah: I was looking at the latest LR6 so I did a 1 second exposure timing sweep of my office, dumped all 20 exposures into LR, and said Merge to Panorama. Just minute later and I beautifully stitched panorama shot (of a totally boring subject)! Wow, what fun we can have...

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