Terry
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It may have advances but it still has some really irritating operational aspects that I really can't fathom. I'm trying to set the camera up as simply as possible because that is the way I like to shoot.This is true, but bear in mind that I owned the EP2 and EP3 before and also the E5, so I think I am still pretty much used to the Olympus logics and way Olympus cameras operate. And in that regards the OMD brings a number of advances which I always had wished for the other Olympus cameras I had used.
Even little things like the SCP that everyone raves about is a bit annoying. You can touch the item but you still need to hit the physical OK button to start making changes to the item you've highlighted. Once you hit OK you are then out of the SCP and into the parameter being changed. Want to change two things...repeat the process.
I compare that to Panasonic when you touch the quick menu item, your options are then visible and you can then touch the value you want. Fuji you go to quick menu and navigate (no touch) to the parameter you want to change and then use the control wheel to make the change always staying in the quick menu.
Unless I'm doing something wrong you still need to cycle through different views to see highlight/shadow clipping. So wanting level and clipping can't be done together. Histogram can't be on all screens as well. You want to keep these things available, it incases the number of button pushes and screens you need to scroll through.
MySets - Sony is the worst with no custom settings. Panny on the mode dial (yeah). Fuji in the quick menu. Oly a convoluted process for setting them up and invoking them especially if you don't always want to use one consistently and even worse if you change a setting it seems to change the MySet.
Getting a smaller focus box, still don't have this working correctly.
Don't get me totally wrong here. it is the best Oly I've used to date but setting it up and getting through the gear menu is still very cumbersome.