Sorry, but all the technical stuff is beyond me. However, if you fill up a 64
GB card in 7 minutes, then you are not really doing photography. You are
shooting with a machine gun.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 14 Oct 2024, at 00:43, 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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