Lesson Info
14. Backside: Playback Menu
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Class Introduction
05:29 2Camera Overview
10:21 3Photo Basics
04:10 4Top Deck: Mode Dial
16:27 5Mode Dial: Exposure Control in P Mode
06:29 6Mode Dial: Manual Exposure
08:46 7Top Deck: Shooting Modes
22:35 8Top Deck: HDR & AF Mode
05:58Top Deck: Metering and Flashes
05:57 10Backside: Viewfinder Display
07:15 11Backside: ISO Controls & White Balance
04:37 12Backside: Focus Area and Controls
06:07 13Backside: Super Menu
20:50 14Backside: Playback Menu
06:15 15Left & Right Side of OM-D EM 1 Mark II
04:42 16Bottom & Front of OM-D EM 1 Mark II
07:50 17Olympus Lenses
05:05 18Camera Menu Settings Map
03:03 19Shooting Menu 1
08:30 20Shooting Menu 2
20:18 21Video Menu
17:41 22Playback Menu
09:04 23Custom Menu A & B
22:01 24Custom Menu C1 & C2
11:24 25Custom Menu D1-D4
19:31 26Custom Menu E1-E3 & F
13:35 27Custom Menu G
04:11 28Custom Menu H1-H2
07:20 29Custom Menu I
05:04 30Custom Menu J1-J2
05:45 31Setup Menu
05:32 32Camera Operation
12:52Lesson Info
Backside: Playback Menu
Next up: play back. And so when you go into the play back, notice it's a blue button, so things in blue have kind of a different function in the playback mode. All right, so what are those things. Okay, so we have the erase, so we can obviously get rid of images. If you want to go through your images, click, there we go, you can use left and right on the arrow pad on the back of the camera. There is a protect button, if you see that little key next to the info button, you can protect your images which means that you can't delete them. You can still reformat the card, so it's a very low-level of protection. You can zoom in by rotating the dial on the back of the camera. You can quickly flip through images by spinning the dial on the front of the camera. You can hit the record button, which does not record, it will actually select so that you can just kind of note "this is the good one here," and so it's just one way to indicate that it is a good image. And as far as I know, I didn't tes...
t this, that information is not passed onto Photoshop or Lightroom as a star, or a thumbs up, or any other flag marking as I know of. If you hit the info button, this is gonna seem like I'm repeating myself, but anytime you hit the info button you're gonna be able to cycle through different bits of information, whether you wanna see the basic image, some of the technical information, a lot of the technical information, including the histogram, you can see just the histogram if you want, take a look at the highlight and shadows, did you overexpose or underexpose an area that you need to reshoot. And then there's a unique lightbox option which will allow you to compare one image against another image, possibly for sharpness reasons. This would be great with portrait photography. You shoot a bunch of portraits, you wanna see which one is sharpest. And so working with this will require a little bit of practice, because we have our base image on the left, and then we have our selected image on the right. So as we have the standard on the left and then one that we're flipping around on the right. And the way that you're gonna be doing that is you can move an image from the selected image, over to the base image by hitting the OK button. And then you'd just been moving back and forth through previous images and next images to look for a competitor image or looking for the best of the images. Now you can also use the controls on the front of the camera for scrolling through your images and for zooming in. You can also control the zoom position so that you can compare two images magnified to see how sharp they are. And so you can control a number of these settings as far as what you're going to see when you're in the playback mode by going into those info settings. Next up is edit options. So once you playback an image, you can do a bunch of things to it. You can edit the raw images, you can share them, you can select to share order- we'll talk about WiFi and hooking your camera up and downloading your images. You can rotate images, you can put them into a slideshow. One of the ones that I think is a particularly helpful feature, which is common on the top of the line Canon and Nikon cameras, is the audio record option. And this can be very handy if you want to record additional information with the photo that is easy to transmit in voice. So, for instance, for a travel photographer, if you take a picture of somebody, you could have them tell you what their email is so you can remember to send them an email for that photo. So let's go ahead and do an example of this. So I'm gonna take my camera and I'm gonna playback an image in my camera, and so let's find an image right here and so we've got our image right here in the camera so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit the OK button, and now we're gonna see all the different options of things that we can do. And what I wanna do is I want to record my voice onto, or with the metadata of this image. So I'm gonna hit OK. And so now, when I hit the start, it's gonna start recording. And I will need to speak into the microphone on the camera. This is the best photo I've ever taken. All right. We're gonna stop it and so we're gonna go back and playback an image, and we're gonna playback an image, and here's the image. "This is the best photo I've ever taken." And so as soon as you go to that image, and so if I go back, "This is the best photo I've ever taken." you'll hear what that message was, and I don't know exactly where that file gets put when you get it taken off on the card, it's probably in one of the ancillary folders on the directory system. But you will hear it directly in the camera if you need to get that information, so a neat feature that I think can be very useful for a lot of people. All right, so when you are shooting video, and you're playing back video, that changes the way some of the features work. And so that OK button will give you some different options of what you can do. You do not have audio record with the video in there. The various controls will allow you to either fast forward or rewind through your video, you can change the volume up and down on the back of the camera, you can go to thumbnail views of your movies by turning the back dial of the camera, and previous/next images with the front dial. And so that is your playback functions. Now, if you wanna switch cards from memory card number one, you can do that by pressing and holding the play and turning the dial on the back of the camera. So, let me make sure that I have installed my second memory card, because I want to show you real quickly on this. And so, if you want to playback, "This is the best photo--" Oh, I'm tired of the best photo I've ever taken. (laughs) And so if I press and hold the play, and I turn one of the dials, you can see I can select memory card number one or memory card number two, hey I remember that photo, go back to play card one and so, it's a very quick way to get back and forth from one and two, it's just hold down play and turn the dial, and you can, I think, turn it on the front or the back of the camera, wherever you want. So, very simple to get back and forth.
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a Creativelive Student
This is exactly what I was looking for - I really feel like I'm not able to control my camera, rather than the camera controlling me! :) I really learned a great deal - some of it was a great review, some of it was crucial information that will (hopefully) make me a better photographer. Thanks for a great class, John!!
Spyro Zarifopoulos
Great and very informative class.... John has done a fabulous job explaining all the simple and intricate details of the very sophisticated EM1 II. Thank you !!!
John Epperson
This is a great course on learning about the OM-D E-M1 Mark II. I have watched it many times to get to were I know it by memory the best I can. I like to go over it as much as possible because there is a lot to learn. I do wish that John would do an updated version since now it is up to Firmware 3.1. It is like a whole new camera with the new settings.
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