Michael Meissner

For indoor shooting, I find the 15-17mm very useful. I do not find the 25mm useful because it's focal length is too long, and I can't usually back up any further. I find the 20mm is border line. ...

While I tend to use the shutter release for fireworks and recording theatrical performances. The fireworks are outside, and the performances often are outside, but they can be inside as well (i.e. ...

Actually I will disagree with you on this. Except for a few old bodies (such as the D40Z that I had for a bit until I scrapped it because it was trashing SM cards), the old sensor was only on the ...

I don't have any Apple gear at all, but perhaps the IPad only uses that port for charging the IPad and it doesn't use it for data transmission?  Or perhaps you have to install something like the ...

If you want to use USB C-PD for powering the camera (not just charging the battery when it is turned off), you can't use the Olympus cable. See this quote from page 278: For normal battery ...

I generally like the Olympus E-m5 mark III and Olympus 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3 combination. For a vacation or zoo lens where you have plenty of light, it beats carrying a passel of lenses and switching ...

It is the nature of the beast.  Mirrorless cameras always use more battery power than DSLRs. In mirrorless cameras, the camera has to continually run the screen or viewfinder, which also means ...

I can't answer in terms of the G9, but I've used the Olympus 14-150mm mark I/II and now the Olympus 12-200mm on my Olympus bodies. I don't tend to take pictures of brick walls or look at photos at ...

Yes.  The sensor readout and screen update pretty much take all of the power.  The extra used by the wifi is rather small.  IIRC, you could see a little bump in power used.

I haven't tested it recently, but in my tests on other cameras, the wifi support didn't use that much power.

If you look on page 103 of the fine menu, the Menu -> Cogs -> D (Display/sound/PC) menu has an option to control when the camera will go to sleep, and the next menu is whether to turn off the ...

Assuming you grok the MF focus clutch. What this is a ring on the lens that if move it to one position the lens runs normal auto focus mode. If you move the ring into the other position, the lens ...

As others have said you should add the Panasonic-Leica 15mm f/1.7 and the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 to the list on lenses to look at. I have had the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 for about 10 years now. ...

It is clear that Olympus has essentially re-branded it, removing some of the 'pro' features. I don't use Capture. My biggest gripe is them removing support for a battery grip. I generally dislike ...

That's true of any system.  Things change, sometimes for the better, sometimes now.  For example, if you are buying a new computer, does it have a built in floppy drive or ISA bus slots?  Does ...

From a practical point of view, I've been shooting classic 4/3rds since 2004, and micro 4/3rds since 2009, if I were to sell everything and invest in a new system, I would either have to put in ...

Once I started using cameras with multiple focus points, I stopped using focus & recompose and instead started changing the focus point manually.

Yes if you change the focus point, you will eventually have to move it elsewhere. It really depends on what you are shooting. (1) If I'm recording shows, I might want to change the focus point away ...

It is on page 82 of the fine manual.  Basically: (1) in shooting menu one (page 53), select AF Area, and set auto focus to single target;

Yes and no. In my experience, the E-m1 mark I support is hit or miss. Yes, it has PDAF, but it doesn't have diamond shaped sensors. This means that you may have to rotate the camera to portrait ...