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

Jorginho wrote:

Indeed I have no clue about live composite mode, I wasn't even mixing it up with Live Time. I only know Live Time and thought you were talking about that.

Also an extra thank you for the time you took to explain this function to me in so much detail. I appreciate it very much and indeed it seems like a great feature well worth trying out. I hope it is not restricted to some lenses, is it?

It isn't. You can use it with any lens as it is exposure mode and not a focus mode like Pro Capture or Focus Bracketing.

The thunderstorm photography changed a lot easier with Live Composite. Typically you needed to take a good longer exposures periodically or use a flash trigger and then do lots of stacking in image editing from multiple frames etc.

While Live Composite makes it very easy. But it as well makes it easy to ruin the shot.

Example if you have a thunderstorm that is constantly striking lighting, you can ruin the shot by waiting something strike somewhere else and then you get one on previous one ruining its look. With multiple frame and image stacking in editing phase, you would simply reject that frame and use other frames.

With Live Composite you easily get too easily results and you start to go "One strike more" not remembering that you can still do the exact same thing in image editing phase by using multiple Live Composite frames.

Like last time I used it was at New Years fireworks. We had just 50 rockets to shoot and for kids they were shot in two different times (25x2) and there was like a 10-15 seconds between each launch.

It was very easy to get the shot as setting camera on tripod and Live Composite running, it got all in that 2 hour period as we had dinner middle of the mode. So the whole time one of the cameras were running Live Composite, capturing as well half a dozen other fireworks at horizon.  So resulting photo was one that had 100's rockets on it, like all would have been launched at once.