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

Tommi K1 wrote:

Wu Jiaqiu wrote:

You can see this in your replies to me but the penny has yet to drop it seems

So which is the easiest way from these 2 manuals to get silent shooting via the electronic shutter since you claim Nikon's menus are so bad or something

Olympus, as you get to set all the shutter modes from one menu. You press one button on top of the camera and you get all the shutter modes, mechanical as electronic choices with timers as sequential release modes. And you are done.

If NIkon would have wanted to be easier, you would need to press F once to toggle between the shutter modes between mechanical or electronic with just confirmation on screen, just as "On/Off" function.

But are you going to set all other shutter modes via that same button like 10s timer or 5 FPS sequential shooting speed or programmed 10 frame shooting for stacking?

No, Nikon doesn't seem to allow to user select the shutter mode from there.

Just think about it. Olympus offers one place to select the shutter release mode, you don't need to think where you enable something or where you select the other mode. You choose it from one place.

When you are photographing wedding, you use mechanical anti-shock mode outdoors and when people come in the church by using flashes etc. Then when the ceremony starts you switch to silent shutter mode. Then when the new couple walks out and music is played, you switch to mechanical again for flashes. At outdoors you switch to high speed sequence for quick bursts from fast situations.

The same thing can be used in wildlife, first you go to silent when subjects are stationary (talking about not E-M1 II here) and you crawl closer to them. You shoot as long possible without noise. Once the action happens you can switch to high burst mechanical shutter. Now with E-M1 II that thing changed otherway, as you can stay almost all the time in silent mode and almost never use mechanical.

It is as well nice (and not nice) when you turn On a Focus Stacking with press of a Fn button and camera automatically enables silent H mode, so you don't need to care anything about it. But then you turn Off that mode and you are back to previous shutter mode. But then you would sometimes have control for that so use a mechanical shutter even when it is slower and you need the anti-shock mode be used, but still have the possibility.

that's assuming you remember that a heart symbol means silent shooting with an electronic shutter.......who thought that was a good idea lol