I think I am starting to see why, I love just holding it and learning the menus.

I can see why.

Thank you, camerapapi, for the recommendation, I love this little camera. Small but all the features.

Thank you, should be interesting.

After posting my question on looking for an Olympus to do Live Composite, I received many great suggestions which I followed up on carefully. I ended up buying an Olympus E-M10 Mk II from KEH that was within my price range. They said it was used but it looks brand new and works great. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and to KEH for a great little camera. I am extremely happy with this camera. Now to get busy with my Live Composites. This, to me, is what UHH is all about.

I want to shout out a very big THANK YOU to all of the UHHers who responded to my post "Which Olympus". Each
and everyone was informative and helpful and to me this is what UHH is all about. Advice and suggestions from folks you feel you know from reading responses on many topics. Google is great but I never have a feel for who is responding, here I do.
My goal is to do light painting of "still life" compositions in a dark room. The live composite will allow me to see where I want light and just add it. At least that is the plan. Should keep me out of trouble for some time.
Again, thank you, I am going over each and every response in detail and will then make a purchase and start trying my hand at light painting. Of course just putting the composition together is the first hurdle but I do have some ideas.
You all have been so very helpful, stay safe and enjoy the day.

First let me state that I know next to nothing about Olympus 4/3 cameras, but I have been reading about them having Live Composite, and I am very intrigued. I would like to purchase a used Olympus for this purpose and was hoping to get a recommendation on which model to look for. Anything around 12 to 24 megapixels would be fine. I would be on a tripod so the lens can be a kit lens or whatever. I would like to keep the price <$500 if possible and if not would consider more. Live composite is the only thing for which I would be using it.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Well, if you see an 85 year old in Scottsdale with Z6, just yell out!

I think I would struggle more with that one. Very nice though.

Yes, it is.

D8 was the culprit. Turned off “Apply settings to live view” and all is well. Like my new camera even more now. Thanks again everyone.

Thanks to everyone who responded I now have some new paths to explore.
I sincerely appreciate the suggestions.
Jack, Grampy Jack. 🙂

I am still in the initial phase of getting to know my new Z6 so this may turn out to be
no problem. I find the EVF very frustrating in low light situations where I am using a flash. The EVF sees what the sensor sees which is essentially nothing, so composing the shot is difficult at best. I never encountered this with an optical view finder in low light.
Also, I do a lot of close up work where I want to essentially black out the background by using an aperture of f16 or higher and using the off camera flash to control where and how much light I want. Now it seems I have to compose at f4, focus and then set my aperture to f16+. Like I said, there may be an easier work around than I have discovered.
Other than that I love the camera the rest of the time.

I agree and will pass that along. Thank you

Thank you for a reasonable response. I was trying to simply ask if anyone had ever seen a similar problem, I guess I was not specific enough, my fault.
Getting hesitant to ask anything due to the remarks.