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30. Custom Menu J1-J2
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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
Custom Menu J1-J2
J1, some general utility things. Occasionally the camera can get a hot pixel, which means it's burnt out. And it can do a mapping and it can see where there's problem, and it can kind of clone out that problem. And so hopefully you won't need to use that, but it's there if you need it. Press-and-hold time. Okay, this is another one that, this is like the only camera in the world that I know that has this. It's kind of unique, so I want to show you a little demo of how this works here. And so, let's do an example with exposure compensation on this. And so on the back of the camera, let's zoom in to our subjects. Okay, so there we go. Now, I'm gonna go to the program mode, and let's see, do I have this set right? I guess this doesn't really matter. Okay, so you can see my exposure compensation going back and forth. Okay, well, let's just say I have it set way down here, and I'm a kind of a lazy guy, and I don't want to turn the dial all the way back so that it gets back to zero. The secr...
et shortcut is if I press the OK button and I hold it there for a moment, it automatically kicks back to zero. Now, wait a minute. How long is that moment? That moment is precisely .7 of a second. And if I don't like that time, I can go in to, where are we, we're down here towards the bottom, press-and-hold time, and exposure compensation is at .7. I would like that to only be reset at two seconds. So now, when I do an exposure compensation and I press the OK button, ah, it didn't do anything, because I didn't hold the button down for a full one thousand one, one thousand two. Now it does it. And so it can do this off of a number of different things. So for instance, let's try the focusing points. Okay, the focusing point in the far left has been chosen. I want to get that back to the middle. I'm gonna hit the OK button for how long? Point seven of a second. If you don't like that time, you can go in and you can tweak it. So there's a lot of tweaking you can do to adjust those times. And so all those different options can be set to be longer to reset them back to their normal settings. Level Adjust, another feature I hope you don't need to do anything with. And so this is simply where the levels in the camera that you turn on, if they're not perfect, you can have the camera reset them, essentially. Hopefully you don't need to use that. Touchscreen settings. So for those of you who really don't like the touchscreen, you can just simply turn it off. For those of you who like it, you can leave it turned on. It's turned on by default. Menu Recall is kind of nice. It will recall where you were last at in the menu, and it will go back to that spot. And this can be very handy if you're going in and checking something and then shooting and then coming back to that same mode and turning it off. If you prefer it to reset, I believe it will just go back to the top of the menu, and you can find whatever you were looking for straight from there. And so if you want to go back to that same item, have it on recall. And just in case you're wondering, this camera does not have a My Menu, which is something a lot of other cameras have. It doesn't have a preset one, so I think the recall option here is a very good option to have. Final tab, Battery Settings. And so this one will allow us to dive in and find out some information about the batteries. First up is choosing which battery the camera uses first, or is using. If you have the vertical grip on the camera, you can choose either the vertical grip or the body battery to be working with. Next up is the status. This gives you some very specific data about the serial number of the battery. You might want to check and see which batteries you have. You can see how many pictures you've been taking and the overall condition of the batteries. So these batteries have a lot of information. Aftermarket batteries may not have all that chip information built into it. Backlit LCD. When you are using the backlit LCD, how long do you want that to stay on? One minute is kind of normal. You can extend it or shorten it. That will affect your battery life, depending on what you're doing with the camera. The camera wants to go into a sleep mode, and when it goes into a sleep mode, you're gonna need to touch down on the shutter release to wake the camera up. Normally, it will do it after about five minutes. You can make it a shorter period of time if you want to save battery power. Auto Power Off. This is kind of a deep sleep. This is the comatose mode, and when it goes into a comatose mode, you need to turn the camera off and back on to wake it back up. A simple shutter release is not enough to do it. So it has different levels of a light nap and a more serious nap and then comatose state. The Quick Sleep Mode, that super control panel on the back of the camera will go dim after about, I don't know, it's about 15 seconds or so, just to save battery power, trying to get as much life out of a particular battery. So that's really irritating for somebody who's using it on a regular basis, but if you are trying to save a little bit of battery power, you can leave that turned on. There are a thing called Eye-Fi cards, which will wirelessly transmit to your computer. You'll only see this if you have a Wi-Fi or an Eye-Fi card in your camera, so it's kind of a whole separate deal, but we're not gonna talk too much about it. Completely useless. Have fun looking at this. (laughing)
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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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