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

larsbc wrote:

Jorginho wrote:

So we have a great lightningshow here. I have this trigger that works alright. But my Em1.2 seems slow and does not catch a thing. It is not the trigger, the trigger is doing fine on aother cams. The I realise: first curtain shutter....Alright. Now where is the setting. I went for 10 minutes trough (I guess most) menu's but just cannot fine the damn thing. I was on the verge of breaking the swivlescreen off. I realised it has some value. And that is where it will go. I never got along with this cam due to the menusystem which clearly is not for me. tried my GH4, found the setting in less than 20 seconds. I havenot used that cam since jan 2017. So it is clear which cams will fit me better even though I am taken back by the lack of service Panny gets people with at least some lenses.

I had a similar experience with my EM5.2. I think I was looking for Live Composite or something like that and spent half an hour trying to find the setting (IIRC the camera had to be in Manual exposure mode and you had to turn one of the command dials all the way past the slowest shutter speeds before it appeared. To MY mind, it made more sense to appear under one of the Menus rather than the shutter speed selection. It just found their menu layout to be so strange vs. what I was used to with Panasonic, Canon and Nikon.

Yes, I could have referred to the manual (of which I sometimes have as a .pdf document on my phone) but I didn't have it at the time. With my other cameras I could usually find any setting I need by ploughing through the menus but not with Live Composite. Mainly because I didn't think of Live Composite as being a type of shutter speed.

Agreed, my natural reaction was to look under shooting modes (front button by on/off switch).

That said, top end cameras have so many features that deep menu structures are pretty inevitable.  Making them as highly customisable as the m1 ii is a bit of a double edged sword.  Unless you use them on a very regular basis finding what you want quickly is likely to be a issue - particularly, if  as I do, you use Sony, Nikon and Olympus bodies which have a significantly different user interface phylosophy.