ISO settings, and other ramblings

Primed with advice, tips, and pointers from my friends from my friends in the ether, I set about making four MySets on the PM2.  The first was RAW only, the second RAW plus Large Fine, the third Fine at ISO limit 5000, and the fourth Large Basic ISO limit 12800, just for practice.  Then I did a basic reset, in order to make those MySets useful, as an improvement over what the makers of the camera intended.

My wife asked for some of her pictures she took on Friday, and I went to Google Photos and found that nary a one of the ORFS had loaded into the program, instead filling up four gigabytes of my fifteen gigabyte limit as original quality instead of "high quality" photographs, and I could not comply, with her request, without a frustrating process of editing, converting, and exporting the RAW ORFS as JPEGS to Windows 10 Photos, which in turn would be sucked into the cloud, downsized, converted, and synched by Google Photos,

And just about then, my wife said she wanted some elderberries, from a man down by Gravois Mills.  I grabbed the little PM2 and went on another mundane adventure.

In order to avoid RAW frustration with handling the photos, this time I used the camera with the default settings that Olympus gave me, when I bought the camera.

The PM2 is really quite a sophisticated little camera as it came from the box.  You can select from IAuto, Scene, Art, Movie, and Program, Aperture, Shutter, and Manual, all on that little screen.

And buried in that little camera, is a Scene setting that says Portrait  and Landscape, and if a man wanted to take photos of a man selling elderberries in the scenic hills of the Ozarks, I thought that quite appropriate.

She found her elderberries, and bought some strawberries, and some other plants, and spoke with the man and his little boy about mulain and comfrey, and afterwards I wondered what comfrey was.  She tried describing it, but I found a photograph of it on my little smartphone, and it explained it better than I could understand a description of it.

Comfrey

And it dawned on me, that others have taken many photos of all the plants in Missouri, and they are likely far better photographers than I'll ever be, and maybe what I should do to document this journey should be to take pictures of the unusual and uncommon sights the Ozarks offers.

And then as we were driving down the highway, I saw a church with a steeple and a cross on top, with lots of cars there on Saturday, and  big signs advertising beer and lottery tickets for sale.  You don't see that, everyday, anywhere.

And I played with the keystone compensation a bit more, and I might get the hang of it if I practice enough, using Olympus Viewer 3, which is free on the internet to anybody, and especially useful to owners of Olympus cameras.

Beer Church as seen driving North

We just naturally were drawn inside of the beer church, where I took lots of photos of the congregation there assembled, and continued our journey.

We went to a private meeting later on, and after we got home, I discovered a setting on Google Photos where if a photo is synched with my laptop, deleting that photo deletes it on all synched devices, which frees up space on Google Photos to load more.

My RAW frustration was somewhat alleviated.

I freed up a gigabyte of space on Google Photos, that awaits more ORFS to edit.

I'm learning all this as I go along, with a little help from my friends, especially those from down under.

But Oly Viewer 3 won't accept the MySets from my mere PM2, because it says the PM2 is not accommodated for that function.

An Olympus customer would have to buy a better, newer, and more expensive camera to get all those geegaws and foo fraws, I reckon.