Olympus om-d 10ii question

Emma777 wrote:

Thanks, that helped. It's still not completely the same. Didn't test it in bright light yet, but in dark circumstances the screen is underexposed, but the photo is just completely black.

Which mode are you using?

I mostly use A mode and the normal for Olympus is that it tries to help in extreme cases by displaying something on the screen even though the result will be wrong. It bottoms out at 3 stops away from normal.

If you see something on the screen or viewfinder and the result is black then the camera settings are wrong and you have reached the limits of the camera (it all depends on the mode you are using). Maybe try Auto ISO with a high limit of say 6400 and see what happens.

The usual approach is to use the screen/viewfinder for framing and try and get the best possible exposure that suits the sensor operation, in other words to expose to the right in histogram terms. Deliberate under-exposure to get a "dark" result delivers a poor result due to noise.

So always try to get a good exposure then a quick fiddle in post process on the computer can set the mood needed for the image.

The camera LCD and viewfinder is definitely not an image reference tool, it is a framing and settings information tool.

I guess I can manage without the screen showing the end result, but I got so used to it with the othere olympus.

They all behave much the same but naturally the way they are set up can make a difference.

Regards..... Guy