Jorgen Udvang
Subscriber Member
As some of you may have noticed, I'm living in a somewhat strained relationship with my E-M1. Luckily, there are mistresses around, and the GX8 and GM5 do a great job to satisfy my needs. I've been thinking about divorce of course, but the old Olympus does so well with the 4/3 lenses, and with legacy glass too. Unfortunately, we had a slight confrontation an hour ago, and I'm not sure that the wounds can be healed. Just listen to this:
I was going to do a short video, and since I didn't have a tripod at hand, I chose the camera that features IS during video, the E-M1. Since part of it was going to be relatively close up, I chose the OM Zuiko 50mm f/2.0 macro, an excellent lens on the E-M1. The E-M1 is of course not a very communicative camera, and while the GX8 will always ask about the focal length when I switch the camera on with a non-native lens, the Olympus excepts me to do a deep dive into the menus, finding IS, which isn't under the primary menus but somewhere down with the stuff that I don't use so often, hidden under "Release" for some reason that I fail to understand.
After that has been done, I'm ready to shoot, and since it's a manual focus lens (normally, and like most who shoot video for commercial use, I use manual focus for all video), I switch on the peaking to make focusing in the rather dark industrial environment easier. Except.... :angry: :angry: :angry: why doesn't peaking switch on?
Back to the office, Google search... E-M1, peaking, video... cannot do :wtf:
Ummm.... dearest Olympus. Peaking was, as far as I know, invented for video use. Video is the most important reason to have that feature on a camera. Having peaking that only works when shooting stills is like having a spare tire that automatically deflates when I have a puncture. Hadn't it been for the fact that the box and some other stuff is in another city, this camera creation of yours would have been on its way to a place where they sell stuff like this right now. That GH5 looks like an increasingly likely option.
I know there are many satisfied E-M1 users out there, and the Mark II will possibly be even more popular than the previous model (my pusher, who has the new wonder in stock, told me that when you set the time with the new one, you even have to set the seconds, just to get it all exactly right), but these things that I mention here (along with the lacking auto-ISO functionality) would have been simple firmware updates.
I'm about to give up.
I was going to do a short video, and since I didn't have a tripod at hand, I chose the camera that features IS during video, the E-M1. Since part of it was going to be relatively close up, I chose the OM Zuiko 50mm f/2.0 macro, an excellent lens on the E-M1. The E-M1 is of course not a very communicative camera, and while the GX8 will always ask about the focal length when I switch the camera on with a non-native lens, the Olympus excepts me to do a deep dive into the menus, finding IS, which isn't under the primary menus but somewhere down with the stuff that I don't use so often, hidden under "Release" for some reason that I fail to understand.
After that has been done, I'm ready to shoot, and since it's a manual focus lens (normally, and like most who shoot video for commercial use, I use manual focus for all video), I switch on the peaking to make focusing in the rather dark industrial environment easier. Except.... :angry: :angry: :angry: why doesn't peaking switch on?
Back to the office, Google search... E-M1, peaking, video... cannot do :wtf:
Ummm.... dearest Olympus. Peaking was, as far as I know, invented for video use. Video is the most important reason to have that feature on a camera. Having peaking that only works when shooting stills is like having a spare tire that automatically deflates when I have a puncture. Hadn't it been for the fact that the box and some other stuff is in another city, this camera creation of yours would have been on its way to a place where they sell stuff like this right now. That GH5 looks like an increasingly likely option.
I know there are many satisfied E-M1 users out there, and the Mark II will possibly be even more popular than the previous model (my pusher, who has the new wonder in stock, told me that when you set the time with the new one, you even have to set the seconds, just to get it all exactly right), but these things that I mention here (along with the lacking auto-ISO functionality) would have been simple firmware updates.
I'm about to give up.
