I use the SanDisk and the Sony with write speed of at least 300. Never any
problems keeping up. I also shoot RAW + jpeg in slot 1, and jpeg in slot 2.
I rarely shoot sequential, and only in the slow speed when I do. I
typically only use sequential when birding and for bugs.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2024, 18:43 Steve Goss <dallasgossfamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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