I also only use cards up to 128 Gig. Last me quite a while in my shooting
mode, but I still shoot like a film shooter, and am very reserved with my
shots .
On Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 07:56 John Ockman <jrockman07@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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