Pen F users - some quick questions...

Raist3d wrote:

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Raist3d wrote:

Ben Herrmann wrote:

Hey gang...

I've always been a Pen user - love the format - so lately I've been getting stressed a bit when I found out that Olympus would no longer be making this line. So last week I purchased the Pen F at B&H. I already have the E-P5 and E-PL7.

My questions are these - and I know they are simple and right in front of my eyes, but I can't seem to find the information:

1. I want to shoot in RAW only, but the only choices I have in the menu structure are either JPG or RAW & JPG. What am I missing here - no setting for RAW only?

There is a RAW only - but not in the dial JPEG modes. There you can shoot RAW but you will get a JPEG.

To me this is an unnecessary increase in complexity Olympus is doing because it breaks consistency.

Set the camera to no special profile JPEG mode to shoot RAW. You can convert the RAWS in camera to the film simulation JPEGS if you want once you done it that way.

2. I was messing around with the settings this morning and I had the IS enabled in the menu. I'm using the Panny 12-60 on my Pen F. After adjust settings to my liking (or so I thought), all of a sudden the ability for me to turn on the IS is now blanked out? I have the lens-based IS turned off since the 5 Axs version in the Pen F is better. What other setting(s) that I may have adjusted affects the ability to access IS settings?

I think the issue is that you have the camera set to "let the lens do the OIS when available." Then in that case it's he lens switch for OIS if it has one, or the Lens OIS the twill kick in.

Thanking you in advance...

Ben

Olympus could do well to do a major UI cleanup. This just shows part of tithe unnecessary complexity.

That's a personal preference of yours? Example, personally I find the UI on the Pen F great..... People differ....great truth..

Some aspects are personal preference. Some are demonstrably at odd (otherwise the whole genre of human computer interface design would be useless). Multiple people and multiple reviews have noted how the Olympus UI has gotten more complex.

So it's a combination of both.

I would not even mention that on any forum so absolutely subjective a statement like that is.... In addition the UI had NOTHING related to the OP? So why mention it?

I have been using Olympus from the first E1. Personally I think Olympus showed great UI progress from then to now. Can they improve? Absolutely. See, looking at life through the right glasses makes a huge difference... To use the Pen UI as a general negative input..... is way below the belt..... touching on propaganda, don't you think?

Now would you approve of this?

As you know I am currently trying the Sony A7. Now if you want to experience an outdated and unfriendly UI go see that of Sony.... Many reviewers, influencers & photographers agree....

Enjoy the PenF if you like its ergonomics and speed. It has some of the very best JPEGS and good RAW files I have seen in all m43rds.