darya150
Member
I really like photos 4,5, and 6- never knew those art filters were that good! I am pretty new to rangefinder forum. I've been reading the commentary about the OMD EM5 with avid interest. I also read Ming Thein's blog, and he also gives the OMD excellent marks, accompanied by examples. The only thing stopping me from getting one, and this may sound ridiculous when so much is right about that camera, but the evf is really hard on my eyes. Have any of you focused using the lcd? Do you have any suggestions for me?
heed
Member
I mainly use the LCD (actually it's an OLED) for shooting, even with legacy lenses. I've set the Fn2 button on the top plate to Zoom, so I hit it twice to zoom in on the center (or wherever I want) for fine focusing. Then I can hit it again to zoom back out and recompose or just click the shutter if I don't need to. You can even change the size of the zoomed area. It's very intuitive and fast once you get the hang of it.
As for the "OM-D lovefest", we all have our niggles; it's just that there are some many amazing aspects of the OM-D that it easily overcomes the negatives. My negatives are all aspects of positive design directions: size is slightly TOO small: I don't have huge hands, but sometimes I have a hard time gripping it; camera is TOO customizable: I'm used to an old Canon EOS DSLR and a rangefinder, plus two OM's, and this thing has 18 pages of custom functions(!!); buttons feel squishy, but it's because of the weather sealing.
darya150
Member
Thanks, very helpful.