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

Historicity wrote:

drj3 wrote:

Historicity wrote:

jthommo101 wrote:

When I get stymied by the menu system - or anything else on the MkII - it's certain someone else has already had the problem and so a quick google search reveals the answer.

Yeah, but if you are in your car at night looking lightning strikes, as the OP describes, you wouldn't have that luxury. By the same token, I wouldn't have that luxury if I were off on a hike. As it was in my case, I found the solution before I got back to my Jeep and could have, if I wanted to, resumed my hike.

I don't mind the challenge of the OMD menus -- normally -- but I can understand why they would be frustrating for those who do. I've only been shooting OMD cameras for about 2 weeks and have been on 4 or 5 hikes with no serious menu mishaps -- so far.

Lawrence

I would not expect to know how to photograph lighting strikes with any camera unless I had first checked it out. Why would anyone expect a camera to work the same as or have the same Menu setup as some other camera manufactured by a similarly small company with a different design team.

It would be like me going out to photograph flying swallows without knowing anything about Olympus focus limiters, focus points, CAF settings, shutter speeds etc. and saying I couldn't photograph that swallow that just flew by at 40 mph. It must be because the camera Menu is too complicated and its a camera problem, not a user problem.

I don't think it was quite like that. He thought he had it straight in his mind, but he either hadn't done it recently or got mixed up. That was where he was, in his car, with lightning striking all about him, and with a camera he couldn't use, when he decided to give up on his camera.

In my case nothing really went wrong with the camera, but I thought it had. So there was all that unexplored daunting customizability (I thought) facing me. I had checked out everything I needed to know to operate the camera in the manual mode; which is the mode I normally use, but what if I inadvertently click something that I never use? That is what I thought I had done. As it happened, I had inadvertently clicked a lens I was using for the first time (a 12-40) from AF to MF. No harm was done, but I shouldn't have to explore every feature (features I'll never use) in the camera just in case I might hit something inadvertently, or should I????? I'll probably do that bit by bit as time goes on -- just in case. But the customizability that DPReview gives points for -- and downgraded the Pentax K1 Mark II for not having enough of, probably isn't for everyone.

Lawrence

We all have done things that temporarily cause confusion.  However, most of those can be solved fairly quickly, if you have taken the time to go over the camera features.  I spent one day just trying out the different things in the Menu.  Then I thought about the things I would want to routinely do.  I tried to set up the camera to make those choices easy.  When I wasn't sure, I did quick Google and DPR searches.

There are certainly things that I would not be able to setup immediately on the E-M1.2 or remember how to do.  However, that is the Penalty for a camera that has so much flexibility, it also requires more effort to understand all the potential.

I think users who first used Olympus digital cameras probably find the Olympus Menus relatively easy to navigate.  Those who first used Panasonic camera probably prefer the Panasonic Menus.  It appears to be somewhat like the MAC vs PC preference.