Setting up new E-PL6

Impulses wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

alexisgreat wrote:

Right I usually do that too- Olympus metering is usually great but having the "blinkies that dont blink" in live view is a definite help! I can use the AEL function to separate focal point from metering point though. Hmmm sounds like I might need to switch my first setting to Mode 2!

Thanks for the description I actually pictured it in my head with how to recompose twice and then shoot. Wow that's a lot of IS you have going there and very impressive with the small weight of the camera. With the E-520 I was able to do 15 sec exposures at 14mm without movement, but that camera is heavier and I had my elbows and half my arms propped on a wall. Did you have dual axis IS turned on or IS in just one direction or off?

The (heavier than E-PL5) E-P5 because it was handy and had a lens on it, always 5 axis IBIS turned on and that body with S-IS-Auto which detects panning, but I just about never do panning shots so it's equivalent to having it on S-IS1, stabilising in X and Y directions.

The way I use the E-P5 is to have 4 x A mode MySets set up for different light conditions assigned to the Mode dial to replace the never used iAuto/Art/Scene/other_thing(?) spots. When taking a shot, if the shutter speed sounded too low then I move to the next MySet by turning the Mode dial and take again, until the shutter speed sound is reasonable. That way I don't have to keep peering at the LCD to see what the speed will be. I use LCD only, haven't used the VF-2 for maybe near 3 years now.

Also many thanks to Helen for taking over what is my night shift (8am here in Sydney now) she explains things more carefully and more accurately than I do. Plus she seems to have an E-PL6.

Regards....... Guy

One thing I dont like about Olympus is their naming scheme...... E-PL5, E-P5, I always confuse them! And OM-D E-M1/5/10, I just call them EM1,5,10. Also the way the numbering scheme is, at least theoretically, the higher up you go in number the more advanced the camera should be, with the "EM's" the reverse is true. I take it you cant do more than 1-2 sec with the E-PL5/6 at 14mm without a tripod even with your arms braced against something?

I wouldn't bet on it, even with the more advanced IBIS of an E-M5 II, you might nail the occasional lucky shot but it won't be at all consistent.

I mean, if you're really well braced it might be different, like if you're holding the camera itself against something rather than purely on your hands... But that can be pretty variable, how stable is that something you're holding it against etc...

Oh I experienced it when I was testing the camera, I got zero sharp shots slower than 2 sec shutter speed- and I tried for them all the way up to 8 seconds with the full length of my arms braced on a wall.  At 2 seconds it was something like 33%.  With the heavier E-520 I could easily do 15 seconds with my arms braced on the same wall.  Of course there are a lot of positives to a lighter camera too and a tripod solves all these issues lol.