Bassam Guy

EXIF data, like that you see by hovering over my skateboarding photo above, is useful yet absent from your photo. Basic settings like ISO, Shutter, and Aperture would be helpful.

Once focus is locked with C-AF+Tracking, the focus will stay locked if the subject moves outside of the focus pattern ("+", 3x3,5x5,etc.), so the smaller the better. Custom Menu A1 C-AF ...

Where did you read that? Are you talking about user reviews?

Built-in focus stacking works fine in controlled settings of relatively flat subjects like this coin I focus-stacked when extremely bored a couple of weeks ago. However, whether focus-stacked or ...

I have a bunch of primes but my 12-40 disagrees. :-)

Not much has happened in the last four years, you can go back to sleep. Nice pic. I'm debating whether to get that lens.

Don't confuse focus mode with the focus point. The focus point, where the spot reading would be taken, is chosen from one of the cells defined by the focus mode.

It would be more meaningful to use lossless compression for this test. Lossy compression (e.g. JPEG) introduces another set of possibilities. Try PNG16.

Both noise and finer detail could explain the size difference. Sharper edges cause fewer distinct pixels, not more, as there are fewer transitional colors.

I set my AEL button (the default AEL button at the lever's fulcrum) to use Spot mode in 2 of my 3 custom modes. So, I can use that button to take a quick spot reading and lock exposure. Custom Menu: ...

The key word here is " decent ". I didn't say "great" or "fantastic" portrait lens. The bokeh is not bad, Joe is acceptably separated from the organ pipes, and his face is certainly sharp (albeit a ...

If you mean "where" and not "why", I already stated it: "Custom Menu", "A1". If you really mean "why", the reason is so that Olympus could make their menus more confusing. Seriously, these settings ...

I wouldn't expect it to be mentioned for a non-macro lens. NO Both the Olympus 60mm Macro and the 40-150mm at 60mm have a "full frame equivalence" of 120mm. Don't complicate it. Simply multiply any ...

A macro lens projects a life size or larger image on the sensor - a magnification of 1.0X or higher. That can't be hard to learn. Did you look on Wikipedia or google it first, or just go straight ...

My E-M5 III has these, doesn't the E-M1 II?

...I have one in my hand.