AA batteries with the E-PL6

Guy Parsons wrote:

alexisgreat wrote:

Now I see why your cameras got so wet- all that time spent in Ireland and the UK! I dont believe I saw the sun even once when I was there.

Can't remember much rain at all in Ireland /UK, certainly didn't obstruct us at all. Wasn't too bad a summer visit in 2015. Nicer summer was exactly 50 years before when I was in London for computer training in 1965. That was a good one.

The bad day was windy and rainy on a vintage sailing ship in sunny Sydney Harbour.

I remember the really good summers out there being in the 80s and 90s, most of the recent ones have been cloudy, must be bad timing.

They dont have a bracketing option for scene modes, I suspect this is because some of them actually require different exposure settings (aperture/shutter speeds) to be used.

Of course, that would be totally crazy.

Anyway, I take normal photos, as realistic as possible or slightly enhanced at times. The arty bits and sceney bits just don't work for me at all, they have been replaced by a range of useful MySets in my case.

Yes some of the Olympus art filters are very garish, and their "fish eye" filter doesn't have much of a fish eye effect, I guess I'll have to get the real thing. BTW I saw some converters up on B&H photo that screw onto the kit lens to go wider or deeper (screw on converters like compact cameras use)- are these any good? It says they are specifically made for PEN cameras, and one of them lets the kit lens go wider, to 11mm. The "specifically made for PEN cameras" part makes me puzzled- why wouldn't they work on the E-Mx series, especially if there are just screw-on converters for the kit lens?

I suspect that kit lens is very leaky and those who use it on the weather resistant EM-5 or EM-1 are actually defeating the purpose of the seals- weather resistant lenses must be used on those cameras.

Leaks at mount, at the zoom and focus rings and the sliding barrels. A sieve is better protection.

But normal care and protection, or a carefully arranged plastic bag is 100% better.

I actually dont ever remember shooting in the rain, and even when it's cloudy I dont shoot unless it's snowed recently. Cloudy weather always makes the colors look drab to me.

That should be an option I set up, I have it currently set to 1 sec review. Is there anyway to set the auto review to automatically go to magnified view? Do you have yours set up that way or to highlights/shadows?

No auto magnify (there is a dedicated Magnify button on E-PL5/6, E-P5 to use when needed), but I do take notice of the blinkies both in live view and on review.

Regards.......... Guy

What's the longest you can set the auto-review for? I like the one with the four histograms and picture info on it but the picture itself looks too small, it fills the LCD though in shadow/highlight mode. You can see the blinkies in both.