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.

I am always a little shocked when I read comments about the Olympus Menu System not being logical, I assume that means it does not operate the way the individual thinks it should or the way they would have designed it based on their "logic".  I find the Olympus Menus easy to use, but I am just as confident I would have no problem with a Panasonic or Sony or Pentax or Nikon or Canon.  I just go to the manual for a quick introduction and then try all the different Menu items to see what they do.  Then I set up the camera the way I want.  If I later determine their are problems, then I repeat the above.

I don't expect the camera to work the way other cameras, that I have used, work or the way I would have designed it, but instead try to understand how the camera  was designed to work.  If Olympus completely changed the Menu, it would take a little time to adjust, but it really would not be a big deal.