That's it: my Em1.2 is gone before I destroy it.

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Jorginho wrote:

Because at first the lighting trigger triggered and triggered with no lightning on it. So I was taken back since I know it works well. But for some reason just nothing. always too late. So I thought: may be the first curtain is sowehow activated....So where is it? Well: nowhere to be found for me. That is my main point: I should be able to find it quickly in some logical manner. May be I am not so logical, may be Oly is not so logical or both. Who knows....

I sympathise with your droll, non-offensive, comment on the Olympus menu system.

I tend to shudder a little when I realise that I need to adjust “something in there” and I am not sure where it is. There is no doubt that Olympus menu system firmware needs a complete re-write and revision. But unfortunately two things stand in the way - the easiest is the most expensive and complicated - a “back to taws” - complete start again to make it logical by basic design as I suspect that the underlying firmware has simply been added to in hap-hazard fashion since digital was a boy and the internal core of code might have become quite complex. The second is much harder - those that have become used to it are going to be terribly confused by a new more logical system no matter how logical it has become.

Tom,

I sympathize with the OP as well, but at the same time I'm using this as a reminder not to get the EM2.  I have been using Pentax cameras since Olympus quit making DSLRs, but getting a bit old (83) thought I should prepare for times when I didn't like carrying my APS-C or Full-frame cameras; so what light-weight system should I add?  Obviously Olympus.  So while Pentax was having a donnybrook over DPReview's review of the K1 mark ii upgrade, I decided to go ahead and do it:  I bought an OMD-EM5 Mk ii and an OMD-EM1 (first version).  I read about the EM1 Mark II's menu system and was scared off.  DPReviews love customizability (the Pentax K1 Mk II) lost points for not having enough of it.  But I'll bet the EM1 Mk ii gained a lot of points for their system.

I shoot just landscapes on hikes; so how hard can these cameras be?  I went through all the settings, set everything and went on hikes.  I bought the 12-40 and was on a hike with my dogs yesterday (5-26-18), when one of them acted up.  I put my camera in the bag to deal with a misbehaving dog (the middle-sized one was being too rough with he smallest one).  When I took the camera back out, I was no longer in AF.  I thought of the daunting menu system, tried some things I hadn't used before, gave up and headed back to the Jeep.  Half way there I realized the problem was with the lens, found the slide on the lens, changed it back to AF, but I was steamed by that time (at both the dogs and the camera), and steam doesn't dissipate very quickly.  Thus, my amusement at the OPs expense -- sorry OP.  ;-(

In my case I don't plan anything like photographing lightning strikes.  My "problem" if problem it turns out to be, will be that I don't intend to run Olympus as my only system.  I sent my full-frame K1 in for the upgrade to K1 Mark ii, and it will come back in a couple of weeks.  I also have several AFS-C cameras, and a wide selection of Pentax lenses, but some days I want to use something light.  I bought an EPM2 a few years ago when I injured my shoulder and left arm.  But I decided I wanted something more serious. Thus, I've been dealing with a daunting menu system -- which isn't even as daunting as the EM1 Mark II.

Actually, I'm not having any real problems, but I wonder if I won't be a little like the OP if I've been using my Pentax gear for several weeks, ding up an arm or a leg by tripping over a dead branch on a hike, decide to use my EM1, put my light-weight 14-150 on it, head out and something suddenly behaves weirdly. . . I may very well turn into the OP.  I'm mostly amused by all this, so no serious lectures please!  And sorry once again OP if I've offended you.  ;-( 

Lawrence