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

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.

Because that is what all camera's actually do. You mount a trigger, You use the appropriate cable and set the cam to the exposure you like. It is nothing difficult.

Without a trigger: you pick up a cam, set it to (say) a 10 second exposure and just shoot the whole time. Lightning will appear. it si very straightforward. And in the end it is with te Em1.2 too. But once something seems wrong an with my personal experience with the Oly doing strange things in the past, you are less confident. So you want to check your settings but (read my story).

Oh: what was strange in the past? Well: I neevr had cam actually that simply focussed on things out of the focussing box I told it to focus in. So with surfers it focussed on the wave in front of them because it loved the contrasdt there (presumably) or at an event it focussed on everything else if it deemed necessary for the smae reason (more contrast).So I had load of pics of the sunlit wall just behind the people I wanted to picture.

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.

Yes indeed. Because I never had a cam that did DFD like the GH4 yet I went outside and did just that: shooting birds in flight with a hitrate that was immediately about as good as the GH4 could get. Just set the cam on C-AF, the lens AF limiter on (clearlyi indicated on the PL) chose burstspeed and of I went...Settings were correct based on the experience (not much though) with other cams and those setting were the same as always.

With the Oly BTW it worked not too differently I have to say. Only that the AF limiter made my EM1.2 go berzerk. So I now needed to find it in...the menusystem. SCP everyone is so fond about...I don't think I found it there....Now with FW updates this problem is gone and I can now use the AF limiter on the 100-400 again.