My Olympus M4/3 Dilemma

[btgc]

btw how it comes E-PL1 don't recognize if eye is put to EVF? Even cheap cell phones have proximity sensor. That's quite strange....

 

[shadowfox]

To Dave,

Don't think too much.
Get the OM-D.
Use it for a while.

You are a pro, you don't need a long time to know if a camera fits you or not.
If you really can't stand it, sell it.
There will be quite a few who would take it from you hands.

Why burden yourself with so much angst? Just do it. 😀

 

[Paul Luscher]

As I've read elsewhere and agree with, the ability to customize the OMD is a blessing and a curse. The OMD can be great once you get all the buttons and dials set up for what you want them to do, but doing the setup itself can be a pain the butt because of the menus. Personally, I find the menus more confusing than Canon's, although the CF menus in Canon aren't much of a treat either.

As between the OMD and EPL1 (which my wife has), I find the OMD handling to be much better because of the two dials. In A mode, one dial is aperture the other is exposure compensation, easy, and it comes set up like that I think. Then set one of the other buttons to ISO and you're done. In M mode, one dial is aperture the other is shutter speed (again, I think it comes like that), then set one of the other buttons to ISO and you're done. Easy shooting once set.

And if you set up the OK button to bring up supercontrol panel (which I had to check the internet to find out how to do), then you have access to White balance and other settings. The only other button assignment I did was to set one of the function keys to magnify, to make the AF box is smaller. So if you're willing to go through the initial pain (or can get a shop to do it for you), it's possible to set up the OMD to work fairly simply.

In a few years I'll figure out how to use the art filters, lol.

I agree. Once I got the OM-D set up, it's turned out to be a great camera.But getting there was a problematic process, given that neither the manual nor the menus were a model of clarity.

Now I'm struggling with Adobe's DNG Converter so I could actually use this camera in RAW mode...

 

[cosmonaut]

I tried tree different Pens and always wound up shooting my M6. The OMD-E-M5 is the best of the mirrorless. I love it. Two dials on the top, one for aperture and one for shutter speed. Just as it should be. The focus speed is truly fast.
It is small though. Be ready for that. The 12-50mm looks huge on it.

 

[Keith]

I agree. Once I got the OM-D set up, it's turned out to be a great camera.But getting there was a problematic process, given that neither the manual nor the menus were a model of clarity.

Now I'm struggling with Adobe's DNG Converter so I could actually use this camera in RAW mode...

I've been using the Olympus supplied raw converter and I have to say it's pretty good. Thinking back to the disaster that Fuji supply with the X100 etc it's ****ing brilliant by comparison! 😛

I convert to tif in viewer 2 and work on the files as such ... not that they need much!