Y'all might remember back several months ago when I asked which camera I
should upgrade to. Well, after much discussion with my wife, and a
rather large income tax refund, I finally got permission to upgrade.
Since I wanted a camera that wasn't already discontinued, and one that
could handle getting a bit wet, I ended up with an OM System OM1 Mark
II, with the 12-40 Pro 2 lens from KEH. My initial impression is that
it's like jumping from a CP/M micro computer directly to Windows 10.
There's a lot of stuff it can do that I don't think I'll ever fully grasp.
What memory card do I need? It's been a while since I last looked at SD
card specs, and I'm getting confused by all the SDHC, SDXC, UHS types
and various class ratings. I got a single 64GB card with the camera, but
it's turned out to be too small. While shooting whitewater kayakers I
managed to fill the card in seven minutes. The 50 frame per second
electronic shutter eats up memory fast... The card is a Delkin SDXC
UHS-II It also says V90 II. I'm not going to be doing movies, although
50 frames a second is definitely fast enough for video. How high end of
a card do I need? I can get a lesser spec card for a fifth of the cost
of the one I bought with the camera. According to the specs Oly
recommends "SD Memory Card (SDHC, SDXC, UHS-I, UHS-II compatible) Class
10 or higher SD card is recommended for movie shooting.
UHS-II or UHS-I U3 card is recommended for 4K, C4K, ALL-I shooting."
(What in the world is ALL-I shooting?)
It turns out that the electronic shutter has a fairly fast minimum
shutter speed. I wanted to shoot between 1/30th and 1/60th of a second,
but found that I had to use the mechanical shutter for that. Evidently
the electronic shutter won't go slower that 1/640th of a second. Auto ND
might help with this, but at the time I shot the pictures in the gallery
below I had not found it in the manual.
When the camera arrived, it was doing ISO automatically. At some point I
set it to a specific ISO, and now all the modes are stuck with specific
ISO settings, and there is no automatic setting that I can find. (I
think I found it today. There's an option called auto 12800.)
The lens has a button on it that says L-Fn. The description I found
didn't make much sense, and I'm not sure whether the button is momentary
or not. Plus, when I went to the Olympus web site to see if there was
more information on this lens I had to search for it manually, and then
when I clicked on the picture of the lens to get more information it
took me to a completely different lens. The OM1 manual says that some
lenses support features of the camera, and some don't. At this point I'm
not sure what camera functions this lens actually supports.
Is there a way to copy the settings from one of C1, C2, C3 or C4 modes
back to the A or S mode, or am I looking at this the wrong way? I
haven't had the option of custom settings before, and the manual doesn't
give examples of how it might be useful.
The pictures in the gallery below are from a whitewater kayak trip with
8th graders and their dads. (All the shots here are of instructors.) I
generally shoot with a fast shutter speed on Saturday, and then go for a
slow shutter speed on Sunday. I like the apparent movement of the water,
although there are much fewer usable images from a series. Usually
there's at least one that has the paddler's face in focus and not blurred.
There are two shots of Lindsay at the same spot in the rapid, one with
the fast shutter speed, and one with a slow shutter speed. The third
shot of Lindsay was a panning shot as she went by my position.
The sequence of Grace does not seem to be in order, even though they
were uploaded that way. The captions indicate the correct order.
There are also two shots of Mike. He is good at blocking his face with
an arm or paddle. While these are interesting shots, a blocked face
means that the photo would not be usable for the dads and daughters or
sons.
I also included a shot from a rock climbing / rappelling trip with 7th
graders. The usual picture is of both dad and daughter rappelling at the
same time. This dad decided not to wait up for his daughter. With this
trip the photos are much different. Instead of capturing large
movements, I need a fairly large depth of field to get both people in
focus. I was using a custom setting, and tried to tweak the aperture.
The manual mentions that changes to a custom setting are lost when the
camera gets turned off, but it really sinks in after you get bitten a
few times by it. I'm not used to re-saving the custom setting after
each mod.
https://link.shutterfly.com/dVc6tLcRyNb
If anyone has comments on how I might do these better, please let me know.
Anyone want a couple of heavily used E-520's?
Thanks, Steve Goss
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