mossgate Loc: Phoenix, AZ

I've been out wandering in the E-M1 desert picking up bits and pieces of useful information from folks on this forum and elsewhere.

Someone left a link on one of my posts awhile back and as I read through that useful information I came upon another link within that link that brings you to a 38-page pdf with more detail...more detailed explanations!!... than the standard E-M1 pdf manual from Olympus. The 25-page version that is directly on the screen as you arrive on that site is easier to look at in my opinion.

Try this link out......http://www.biofos.com/mft/omd_em1_settings.html

Maybe this link has been posted before so I apologize for not remembering who left the original link...I loose track of the posts. This link is probably one to bookmark.

karlw Loc: Enfield Connecticut

Thanks for the link. There is not alot out there for the E-M1 I am always looking also. Got the E-M1 a month ago and am playing with settings ..Only had to do a complete reset once...lol

mossgate Loc: Phoenix, AZ

karlw

I've done reset a bunch of times. I printed the pdf manual and am now going through it thoroughly with the camera on my lap. Nice thing about having it in paper form is that you can write notes as you go along.

After having gone through the camera's menus endless times, it's easier now to go through both Olympus's manual and the biofs.com manual and understand it for the most part.

There appears to be no name of the creator of the biofs.com manual in the manual itself. It must be on the site somewhere. Whoever he is, he did us a very merciful service. It's very detailed... thank goodness... but an easy read. His "observations" are really helpful.

Souk Ahras

Thank you mossgate for the useful hint. I've been shooting pics with the E-M1 for two months now. I like the camera but the manufacturer's directions for its use less so. A quick look at the first page of the printout of biofos.com (definition of the abbreviations) has already been of much help. Olympus could also have a look itself.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

And keep an eye on Wrotniak's site http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/m43/index.html
Wrotniak was the most respected free resource for Olympus 43 camera users for years, then he disappeared for several years while Olympus was migrating to m43. He recently re-emerged from invisibility, bought an Em1 and has begun writing about it. Probably a huge percentage of Oly cameras were for years set up according to his recommendations, and I know we will again get much useful information from his work.

You may also enjoy Michael Reichmann's Camera of the Year article on Luminous Landscape http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/best_new_camera_of_2013.shtml#update since he gives several hints along with his accolades and impressions on the EM1

mossgate Loc: Phoenix, AZ

minniev

I bookmarked both those links. I can envision a book titled, "Olympus OMD E-M1: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." Anyone want to use that title and write one, be my guest.

It was all those fabulous, glowing reviews from various photographers with their gorgeous photos that enamored me into buying this cameras. Noone really warned about the camera's bewildering digital "guts". It really is sort of like being a surgeon figuring what is what.

Anything becomes "easy" once you know how to do something. BUT figuring out HOW to do it RIGHT can be quite a task. And to have to do that with endless features, worse yet, not knowing which are INTERDEPENDENT to the proper functioning of another feature.......it takes a very sharp mind or just plain stubborn determination. It's enough to drive you crazy when you realize what your camera is doing isn't the way Olympus's manual says it should be working, but it can very well be because YOU chose some setting (accidentally or in your process to understand and explore) which thus causes the instructions not to work the way they say. Then you have to figure out what YOU did to mess things up. But YOU are just learning so that makes unscrambling things a bit mind bending.

In my case I have to write many things down as I learn
and put it into my own words. When a manual has bits and pieces of instruction on a feature scattered in different places in a manual it's easy to miss something or not be able to connect the dots......thus, my own notes put it all back into one place.

I hope more "lost souls" find this post. OLYMPUS!! ARE YOU THERE??!! YOU REALLY NEEDED AN INSTRUCTIONAL CD WITH THIS CAMERA! SOMETIMES REAL LIFE VISUALS HELP. NOT TO MENTION A MORE THOROUGH MANUAL....DON'T LEAVE IT UP TO A CAMERA PURCHASER TO DO YOUR WORK FOR YOU.

Thank you for the additional links.