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Started May 27, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: I can relate to your Olympus Menu frustration. Huge Adjustment Period
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Hah.

When I came from Canon and Nikon to Olympus, I was delighted how logical and ready Olympus menus are. No thinking or remembering required you first just get the setting you want and be back in shooting.

Why I can at any time reset Olympus camera and program it trough all settings in few minutes.

These days using any Canon or Nikon requires to go browsing settings and try out what was where as those are about remembering places and you have little to even program.

The logic is missing in those. And I don't talk about my logic, I talk about user interface design logic.

Like first time when I got Canon the huge wheel at rear was like amazing experience compared what Nikon had. But when I got Olympus, the dual dial design is just best out there.

Olympus has made cameras that you don't need to think, twiddle or exam, it gets out of your way and you don't even remember using it, like powering On/Off.

That is the joy of the tool when it is so well designed that you get to do your profession in high stress situations and you are comfortable that what you see is what you get and tool doesn't slow you down.

Still people doesn't come up with better menu as Olympus has, even when they whine about it. If you know there is a problem, fix it, don't whine.

I can give Olympus to total beginner, who doesn't even know what a shutter is or what ILC means. And I can ask them to go menu and to adjust specific setting without walking them trough.

And I have done that for many, their first digital cameras since iPhone.
Same as well with people who has had Canon since first Canon 1D or 5D and never used anything else that top Canon models.

But there are always those who can't even use a knife or axe or even boil a water.
Every 2 of 10 of the population are below IQ 85 and you can't teach them creative thinking in any area. Very minor group of population knows what they want and gets what they need to do to get it. Majority just follows others by what is cool looking or what others have.

Canon challenge is that they have large userbase, they can't do big changes as it causes trouble for many.

If we would even talk about such user interface logics as gas station credit card payment (card in, pin code, sum, station number and card out) or tram payment with transportation card (first touch card on device center where is cross, then press area number 1-4 depending how far you are moving) the people have trouble often, some are even doing big mistakes if they are disturbed in such situation.

So many professional photographer doesn't know even half of their canons and Nikons features, they just point and shoot with semi automatic modes and work their ways around with rules of thumbs.

Just look at the sides of sports arenas and social events how professionals take shots and then chimp did they get it...
Heads down etc.

And that is something mirrorless changes as the tool is removing the doubt. One of the best user interface changes for ever in photography. And yet so many is against that!

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