Wish list for 2018?

SpinOne wrote:

Antal I Kozma wrote:

I wish for a new Olympus pro camera with drastically reduced menu complexity...

That's what the SCP is for.

Just give me the basics, shutter priority, aperture priority, manual, exposure compensation, spot metering, matrix metering.

You can very easily set these up, with custom dial modes and customized buttons.

Oh yes, one territory I'd like to see significant improvement is AF. So that my single point AF would be able to pick out that little bird in the maze of branches in the bush without hesitation.

Hopefully, the E-M1 Mk ii firmware (whenever it comes out) will bring some big AF improvements.

Thanks for the reply.

You see this is my problem, I have no idea what SCP is...... Must be good  for others, but I am not an acronym fellow. Cameras get so much complexity built into them that photographers who would like to have "professional simplicity" just get frustrated with 90% of the "rich feature set" built into them.

You see, I keep referring to tools like the OM-3 was. Simple and professional. A Hasselblad 500 CM, a Nikon FM2 or similar. Well built professional grade equipment. That is what I would wish in a new Olympus camera. Yes, good AF, wide range of usable ISO, exposure compensation and AF fine tuning. Those I would like to have but most of the rest could get stripped from my dream camera.

I changed settings or locked in wrong settings so many times now on my OM-D E1 MK II by accident that it robbed me from getting a number of nice images while on the trail. I sat down a few times, scratched my head and tried to figure out how the heck I got to a certain setting when last time it was so easy to change this or that.

I worked out a "down to basics" setting for myself just to bug it up by accidentally changing something within the complexity of the buttons, dials and menu system while I was concentrating on following a tiny bird in the bush. I had no idea how I changed my settings and I usually had to go home frustrated and spend an hour on trying to figure out what went wrong. Maddening, why not just make a camera that most advanced and pro users would be able to use without getting into a myriad of sub menus and settings to conquer.

Custom dial settings? Again, just have the basics up front and put the rest deep under some "custom setting menu" if you want to have those for "competitiveness and marketing".  Just the basics please, basics without getting into extra brain work to figure out how to set the camera to a simple working mode. As I said, give me a digital version of the OM-4 or OM-3 and that is all I need to work either for pleasure as a retired photographer or professionally if an old client wants me to do a job for them.

Anyhow, I am too old and just do not get it why make something so complicated when all is needed a simple set of tools and the photographer's knowledge to get good results.

I guess that I am in the minority and today's "photographer" wants to have a set of space age  features and menus to push and browse in. The subject matter remains the same but now we get to the same results with much more complex gear..........

Best, AIK