Lesson Info
31. Setup Menu
Lessons
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
Setup Menu
We're through the custom menu. That was the bulk of it. We're working our way out of this pit now. This one's gonna be pretty easy. The set-up menu, first up, if you want to format your memory cards, you can choose to format card one or card two. If there's images on it, you'll have the option of erasing those images or formatting. I recommend formatting on a regular basis. If there are no images on the card, it'll just give you the option of formatting yes or no. I recommend formatting new cards when you get a new camera like this or whenever you get new cards to put in the camera. It will clear the communication lines. You can record the date and time. Good to have that set properly so it gets recorded to the metadata properly. Language, of course, choose whatever is easiest for you to work with. Monitor brightness, another one that I hope you don't have to work with, however, this is one that you might go into, like if you were going to try to show photos to somebody out in the brig...
ht sun that you shot on your camera, you may need to boost the brightness so you can see it in the bright sun. Recording view, when you play an image, do you want to see that image on the back of the camera? Now, mirror-less camera users, this is what's different about SLRs. On SLRs, you look through the viewfinder, you don't know what the digital version of that image looks like, so you want to have it viewed on the back. With a mirror-less camera, you get to see a preview right in the viewfinder. What a lot of mirror-less users have set is to turn this off, because they already know what their images look like. They can work on composing and getting ready for their next shot. So if you want to shoot a little bit faster, turn this off. If you need to see the images, well then you can turn a review time on if you need to. We have another access into our wi-fi settings, where we can get in and control some of the specifics. We're not gonna spend a lot of time in here, but you can go in and set this up so it's private, one-time, or select. You can set up a password, a private password, because you should normally want to have a password so people don't just have access to getting pictures off of your camera. You can change the share order, if you want, the way that it's gonna be downloading images to your phone. If you want to, you can just simply reset the wi-fi settings completely. And then the firmware. Last item in the menu, folks. Firmware. Recently they upgraded the firmware to 1.2. If you're watching this in the future, which most of you are... By the way, how is the future? Do things get better? I'm hoping so. (audience laughter) For those of you in the future, firmware may be a higher number than this, so this is the minimum of what it might be. This is what it is at the recording of this class. It's 1.2. The lens, that'll depend on which lens you have. So the way the firmware works is that runs all the software, all the menu systems, the exposure system in the camera. You first need to make sure, the mistake I made was I had the old Olympus Digital Camera Updater, which did not work with this camera. That took me about an hour or two to figure out, so make sure that you have the most current version of the Olympus Digital Camera Updater, which is a software program that resides on your computer. Once it is there, you plug your camera into the computer, and it should recognize your camera, and it will ask you, do you want to update your firmware, and you say, yes, I do. Then it goes to Olympus' website, it downloads the firmware, and loads it straight onto the camera. Some tips I have for you, is number one, get the latest version of the Camera Updater. Remove your memory cards from the camera. It's possible that under USB connection you will need to have "Storage" selected as OK. If you're like me and you have a USB hub, because you have all these things plugged into your computer, it won't necessarily work, so there's a lot of things that can catch you in this process. So hopefully that will make that process a little bit easier for you. That firmware is free. You just need to go to Olympus' website and get their Digital Camera Updater. It's pretty easy once you have all that in place. So we were talking about the halfway level, when you... Right So does that work on back button focusing as well? I don't think so, because the back button doesn't have a halfway position, so you would have to press halfway. Yeah, that would not work real well with back button focusing. Yeah, because you would be pressing halfway, but then you would have to be pressing the back button. It could work, it just depends on how dexterous you are with your different fingers. Interesting thought. There's so many implications of using, well, what if I use this feature here, and that feature there? Yeah, there's a lot of combinations. There's about a million, there's gotta be a billion, ways to set this camera up. Steve just asked, does firmware update reset all the presets that you have, if you update the firmware? Reset all the presets? No, it doesn't. This is really cool. OK Because what happens is because they have the Updater software on your computer, what it does is it, before it updates the firmware, it simply takes a snapshot Syncs? of everything you have your camera set to. It kinda siphons that off, loads on the new firmware, then it says it's loading your presets back. [Online Moderator] Wow. Then it puts all those back on.
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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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