Olympus camera (PM2/PL5/PL6) settings questions

Just now tried E-PL5 set to raw file only and 1 second and 2 second anti-shock and set burst and held the shutter down to see what happens.

Raw file only is definitely faster than raw+jpeg and even at 1 second I see the write indicator blink off safely before the next shot is taken, so it would never slow down, 2 seconds even safer of course. The card is a Class 10 that tests as a Class 15 for write if there were such a class.

But hey, videos are much nicer for aerials, just watched one on Topsham UK where we are staying in June and it was good to watch https://vimeo.com/103628179 Phantom 2 and GoPro 3+ it says in the end notes, whereas stills are just a bunch of stills.

Regards.... Guy

Godfrey wrote:

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...

G