5 More Tips for Olympus OM-D Cameras

[@richd.9400]

Robin, you're doing us Olympus owners a great service with your informative videos. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

[@robinwong]

Thanks, and I will continue to do my best!

[@colinspotswood9893]

Absolutely love this guy. Great, practical advice and a charming personality to boot!!

[@allansimpson1001]

After working with Nikon for the past 15+ years, I just switched to Olympus, Thank you for the videos I am learning this new camera really quickly, all thanks to your hints and tips, Very much Appreciated

[@robinwong]

Thanks for letting me know! Surely more videos are coming.

[@alan.macrae]

Robin, I have to echo what Rich D. said below. I'm a newcomer to Olympus digital and the MFT system, having just a Pen-F and several lenses at this time. I'm a 50+ year Nikon shooter and, always will be but, my evolving MFT kit is my 'personal' photography/travel kit. I have watched many of your videos as we sit out the pandemic and they are, without question, the best Olympus education videos. Thank you!

[@yukonchris]

Excellent tips. I love the OK button for accessing the Super Control Panel, but I had no idea that a long press would "zero out" all those adjustments. That's awesome! Thank you, Robin.

[@robinwong]

My pleasure to share. From the comments thread, seems like you are not alone, a lot more people do not know about the OK trick too.

[@CVCC]

love the OK button tip. Unfortunately the quick zoom, tip 2 was not available on the EM-5 ii. Keep em coming!

[@robinwong]

The quick preview is available in newer OM-D cameras only. More videos coming surely!

[@shaneyang7654]

I was a Nikon shooter and I am so comfortable with nikon's OK button bring focus point to the center feature, I have been using OMD-EM1MKII for couple of months and the only thing which I couldn't live well with this fantastic camera is there is no quick way to bring the focus point back, after this video i think I am saved, thank you Robin!

[@robinwong]

Glad that I could help! Yes, the OK button is the lesser known shortcut for Olympus. Not sure why they did not promote it.

[@billantonacci4441]

Hi Robin. I just wanted to say thank for the terrific videos . I am Olympus camera user and I personally have learned so very much. Bill from Palm Coast,Florida.

[@ipadista]

Anytime you use focus peaking on an OM-D, regardless if it is auto-triggered when you do manual focus, or after triggering it with a button, as long as it is active, if you press the info button, a pop up menu allows you to change all the params whilst in live view so you easily can choose something that works for the current scene. It is not mentioned in the manual, and any time I have seen a youtube tutorial talk about focus peeking, they always go deep into the menus to adjust peeking. I find this ridiculously silly since it is much more meaningful to do it in live view so that you can actually see how it will work with your current scene.

[@robinwong]

Wow, thanks for sharing that! Yes, the Info button is another magic button that has multiple uses!

[@Impostertot]

Nice tip jaclu! Thanks for your comment.

[@schmoddd]

Best Olympus related content on KZbin. Thanks Robin.

[@robinwong]

Thanks! You are too kind.

[@ipadista]

In playback, there are two other features I found by playing around. 1 pressing info moves you to the next view mode. Keeping info pressed and turning one of the dials, will allow you to scroll both forwards and backward between viewing modes, so if you have enabled a lot of modes, info, and back turn is a lot quicker than repeatedly hitting info until you get back to the previous mode. 2. When you are zoomed in the arrows only moves the zoom sector, the info button lets you choose by three different modes A) move the zoomed area B) toggle between photos, if you have taken multiple shots with the same composition, you can quickly find the one that has the best exposure on the zoomed-in area C) temp zoom out so that you get an overview whilst you move your zoom window

[@robinwong]

Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!!

[@TCizauskas]

Pressing and holding the OK button also works to return the magnifying rectangle to the center point! Thanks for these (hidden) tips, Robin!

[@CantiloupeIsland]

Thank you! Extremely useful... I've used Olympus omd for three years and today I've learned something new and relavent.

[@robinwong]

Always something new to learn! Glad you found some useful tips.

[@pretavol]

Thanks, Robin, for more great tips. I didn't know about the 'OK' button reset or the C-AF issue. I couldn't even find the C-AF information in the manual!

[@robinwong]

My pleasure to share. Olympus should really put more effort in helping their customers understand their products better.

[@FatForWeightLoss]

Dude, your videos are great!

[@robinwong]

Thanks! More to come!

[@bigpete7297]

Thank you Robin. You're tips and views are great!!

[@ChasingGiants23]

AMAZING VIDEO DUDE. WELL DONE. Tks so much. I'm loving so many of your OMD vids. they rock!

[@BatuHijau]

Another fantastic video Robin. Thanks so much.

[@edwinscox]

Wow, Robin, you are so helpful! These are practical tips and I did not know any of them until now! Thank you!

[@OniMirage]

Happy to say the only one I didn't not know about was the zoom option

[@jimwallar8920]

Great tips - thanks much. I do a lot of woodland an waterfall photography so the highlight and shadow controls will help a lot.

[@robinwong]

Glad you have found the tips useful!

[@jwickerszh]

Nice tips, the Hold OK to reset is a pattern that is not always mentioned on the screen .. it was mentioned on the Highlight/Shadow in the bottom right though.

[@robinwong]

The highlight/shadow control one was the most obvious of all.

[@davoudaghazadeh6425]

I Learned a lot from you, and Thank You .

[@stephanhan.8390]

Wow. Last two tips were so much useful. Thanks a lot... Keep educating...

[@robinwong]

You are welcome! I continue to do my best.

[@nlanca1]

Excellent stuff again Robin. I've been using Olympus for 10 years plus and never knew about the OK button tips. Been re-assigning the red button to reset the focus point for years...

[@robinwong]

No worries, Nick, always something for all of us to learn!

[@bobneedham6224]

Another great 5 tips video

[@1957PLATO]

Thanks for the amazing tips. Very useful in making the fantastic Olympus camera’s even more awesome.

[@robinwong]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@jennyburden444]

FANTASTIC Tips Robin, they are sooo helpful, thanks, keep them coming, please

[@robinwong]

Thanks Jenny!

[@cherjohnson3741]

Robin this might be a useful note for some users of the EM1MK2 who have customized their dial functions. For example, if you have moved exposure compensation to lever position 2…then, the return to 0 is disabled. Exposure compensation must be assigned to and in lever position 1. Super video, thank you.

[@robinwong]

Ah I did not know that the OK button works only with function switch at position 1. Then again I disabled the function switch.

[@cherjohnson3741]

I agree completely,… lever function off is a much more secure shooting arrangement. Maybe saying it this way is a little better. It is in choices of assignments available in the dial function menus that one can unintentionally disable the “ok” reset option. In the dial function menu exposure comp + - must be assigned to the lever position 1 setting. It will not matter if the lever function feature is in fact set to on or off. Merritt & Cheryl Johnson

[@dwainwilder7337]

Great tips, I look forward to seeing your next video. Very helpful, especially the magic ok button and breaking the shutter speed tip. Thank you!

[@robinwong]

Thanks, and next video coming up in a few days! Stay tuned.

[@dcho6310]

Thanks for giving those tips for the Olympus cameras. Great work

[@robinwong]

Cheers!

[@tonyb2760]

Very useful and informative tips. Thanks for sharing

[@robinwong]

My pleasure to share!

[@danielclifton4589]

Wonderful tips! Thanks so much for sharing.

[@robinwong]

Thanks, my pleasure to share!

[@haflingerduo]

Very informative video. I didn't know about holding down the ok button.

[@robinwong]

Looking at the comments by others, you are not the only one!

[@Eti1968]

Usefull tips, keep up the good work Robin!

[@robinwong]

Cheers!

[@mitchelllorens]

That OK long press is a very good idea. I imagine that is probably stated somewhere in the manual but you make it so easy. How about some Malaysian outdoor nighttime shooting for your next video?? I need a virtual holiday this year and Kuala Lumpur is exciting. Happy Holidays!

[@williamevans9426]

Really useful! Many thanks.

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@mr_k4tz]

Another really great video Robin. Thanks

[@robinwong]

Thanks for the kind words.

[@adrianland]

Hey, many thanks from France... Good job, you're so natural and happy. Well done !

[@robinwong]

Thanks!

[@alanthompson3851]

Great video learnt some new tricks I wasn’t aware of. Any chance of a video on finding the distance you are focussed on using premf

[@robinwong]

I tried using the preMF but the distance is not always accurate, hence I did not include it.

[@edgarsteele]

Great tips, thank you for this video Robin! My favorite feature of the omd body is to enable the live view warning of highlights and dark clipping. This way I nail exposure ever time, and know which areas will be clipped, if any - all without having to look at a histogram

[@robinwong]

My favourite too!

[@DavideSpagnolo]

can you make a tips for post production file? especially concerning the sharpness and noise iso and another best setting for this camera? (lightroom). Congratulations continue so your videos are very interesting

[@robinwong]

Sure, thanks for the suggestion! Post-Processing is surely in the works.

[@santi3758]

Great videos Robin! Thanks a lot!

[@paulhigginsphotography]

Love the OK button ones - nice! Thanks for sharing.

[@robinwong]

Glad you have found that useful!

[@mikierenzo8023]

Very useful tips. Thank you

[@robinwong]

Cheers!

[@jerrymorgan9792]

Great tips Robin!

[@TheSquishySnail]

Oops forgot to add: Love the end of video "blooper". How great to be recognized! 😄😄😄 Behind the scene stuff can be fun to see sometimes. Have to admit, I go to your youtube videos more often than I read the blog. 🙈 But both mediums have useful info, so I still read!

[@robinwong]

I think the world has moved on to video, and also micro-sites like Instagram and twitter now. Full websites are not so popular anymore, hence I do have to adapt and change my way of sharing photography too.

[@TheSquishySnail]

@@robinwong I am glad! The world needs more of Robin Wong! 😄

[@repunts]

Thank you again!👍👍

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@damsjs6866]

Thank you Robin. Another great video and very helpful. A couple of your tips do not work for OMD EM10 II, I have no such button you showed for tip 5. Also, my menu is different. No D2 on menu and no "review default" setting in the menu D. Lastly, to get to the small target focus area via shortcut, I first have to press the info button before I can turn the dial to adjust to the different focus areas. Trying to turn the dial without pressing the info button, just moves the focus point up, down, left or right. Anyway, keep up these videos. They are so helpful. Much appreciated.

[@robinwong]

Yeah the tips in the video is more targeted toward newer OM-D cameras.

[@KarlBrau]

Your channel is awesome!

[@bernhardtsen74]

Just got my hands on my very own 5mkii today!cant recommend it enough for video shooting!forgot to put different video settings on function 1 and 2!so I had to change every time I switched between full hd 60fps and 120 fps in 720p!my D750 got less than half the video functions although it had cost about 2.2 times more!

[@robinwong]

Glad to know you are enjoying the E-M5 Mark II! It is indeed a capable camera for shooting video.

[@richerich8007]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Robin, love these tips. The only one I knew about is the CAF mode, because I called Olympus and asked. I shoot mainly birds and shoot exclusively low silent getting 18fps which is fine 98% of the time, however when shooting extremely fast moving birds it would be awesome to have 60fps with continuous focus. Oh well, in my opinion still the best camera on the market. I can handhold my 600 can't do that for very long with any other brand.

[@robinwong]

Shooting 60fps with full C-AF, I don't think any camera in the world can do that yet. Even at 18fps, Olympus is among the fastest (just behind Sony A9 I think).

[@RajendraSingh-sl8zs]

Always looking forward to your videos many thanks.great tips!

[@robinwong]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@renatoreyes1969]

Thank you very much for your nice made tips. Very helpful. Keep going.

[@wokabu9991]

Awesome tips, Robin, thank you so much! 👍

[@stehlealexander]

Great work

[@robinwong]

Cheers

[@wallywo7392]

Thanks robin some great tips much appreciated

[@robinwong]

My pleasure to share!

[@AnastasTarpanov]

For the first tip, I didn't knew about the exposure compensation reset. Cheers :)

[@robinwong]

My pleasure to share, and glad that you found it useful!

[@comment23YT]

I’ve long known about the re-centring of focal point using the OK button but I didn’t know about the exposure compensation reset trick. Thank you! Now, any tips for getting program shift rest quickly rather than scrolling hopefully until the ‘s’ disappears (and not going straight past it)?

[@robinwong]

Nope, I have no idea how to quickly reset the Program shift mode. What I do, I turn the mode dial away from P and the come back to P again. That is not necessarily the quickest way but it does work.

[@comment23YT]

Robin Wong Yep, that’s the best I can come up with too. Feels like P mode could be much more useful for me if a quick and easy reset were possible.

[@fairwaycottage5889]

Hello! How do I take a photo w/ the whole photo in focus?Thank you..

[@jb-vs8pm]

Great tips, thanks Robin. Could you tell me...in your blog spot shooting the Malaysian WTA Tennis Open 2017 with an E-M10 Mark II you stayed with mechanical shutter speed of 1/4000. Just wondering why you did not utilise electronic shutter that day, so you could go up to 1/16,000?

[@artemskubriy9555]

Thank you very much!!!!

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@pmcbMadeInIreland]

Awesome, thank you 🙏

[@AerialLensVideo]

THANK YOU, Robin!

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@nelbox1]

thank you Robin !!

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@jesperolsen4951]

Thx again - you always give usefull olympus tips and tricks 👍

[@robinwong]

Thanks, I do my best!

[@rudolfabelin383]

Very good as usual. Your videos has a high quality!

[@robinwong]

Thanks Rudolf!

[@SinAlameda]

Great tips, thanks!

[@robinwong]

Cheers

[@williamveeser628]

Very helpful & useful tips. I have the OMD EM1 mark II, can you talk about menu changes with the 3.0 firmware upgrade?

[@robinwong]

I don't think the menu changed that much after the upgrade. there are additional few items, but that's it and they are well covered by the notes/changelog published on Olympus official site.

[@leonardstanton3591]

Thanks for the re-zero with the OK button. I had been wishing for something exactly like this. It works great on my EM 5 mkll but not on the EM 1 mkll. Any magic setting needed make it work on the EM 1 mkll?

[@robinwong]

In the video, I was using the E-M1 Mark II. It should work.

[@leonardstanton3591]

@@robinwong After playing around with the EM 1 Mark ll it seems that the OK exposure comp reset works just fine if the function lever is set on position 1, it does not work if the lever is set to position 2. I use the lever for selecting auto focus modes and it makes no difference what the setting is on the two positions. I switched the position functions around without any effect. I note that in the video, you are on position 1.

[@Max730906]

Thank for your tips, I like this vedio and these tips can help me change the setting easily and quickly in EM1-MARK II. Look forward to seeing your next vedio.

[@stephankurda7397]

Love the bonus tip, didn‘t know that. Very useful, thanks a lot!

[@arnoudkos3939]

Dear Robin, Great tips. Thank you very much! For me the CAF tip and disable the EVF function are valuable. Kind regard, Arnoud Holland

[@robinwong]

Thanks! Glad you found some useful tips!

[@smkunder1]

Love these! They are so helpful.

[@robinwong]

Thanks Steve, I do my best and I share what I can.

[@spanksen]

Thank you for the CAF Tip, did not know this!

[@robinwong]

I forgot to add in the video, Olympus should have communicated this more effectively.

[@MrMGKelly]

Great tips.

[@siegfriedtremel3759]

Thank's a lot!! Excellent tips

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@ekotamtomo1588]

Robin how to photograph moving objects like football players on the field. shooting in low light or night mode

[@manhoho]

great tips , but did they working on a old EM5 mk1?

[@robinwong]

Unfortunately, not all

[@s.m.s.m.630]

Hi Robin, I know your blog for some years now, didn't know that you also have a video channel wich is cool btw. Very helpful tips, especially the "ok" button and the AF + the burst sequential mode. You have another subscriber. :) Keep up the good work! Cheers from Germany

[@robinwong]

Thanks for the show of support, and I appreciate the visits to my blog!

[@Rebla01]

Couple of things I didn’t know there Robin! First up is to disable the EVF function 👌🏼 thanks for this ✌🏼

[@robinwong]

Glad you found something new here!

[@Rebla01]

Also Robin I would be interested in (if any) you’re custom settings if you use then? & for what applications. Thanks once again.

[@robinwong]

@@Rebla01 I only periodically use Custom settings. For example, shooting night sky, I would set M, shutter speed 30sec, ISO1600, F2.8, manual focus, live veiw boost On2, and store those settings in one of the Customs, so I can call it up easily without fumbling in the dark when shooting.

[@tizio54]

Hi Robin, great tips ... except I can't figure out how to invoke the colour creative mode (colour wheel) on my E-M1 ii

[@robinwong]

Enable the Multi Function selector, usually it is Fn2 button (if you have not reassigned the button). The hold down Fn2 and turn any of the dials to enter multi mode selection. Scroll to Color Creator

[@tizio54]

Brilliant, it works! That was the second bonus tip for me :-)

[@juandaferrando9061]

Great tips Robin 👌 But the 1:1 quick preview is not available for the em10 Mark ll right? Thanks for sharing!

[@robinwong]

Unfortunately it is not. Thanks.

[@cgpixol]

Hi Robin, thanks for the tips. The first tip doesnt work in my omd em5 ii, I did press ok button but the exposure compensation doesnt go back to 0 🤔

[@TheVnat]

Thank you!

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@Aektc1]

ขอบคุณมาก ๆ ครับ /Thanks.

[@RobinHartJones]

Why do so many of us not know about the CAF issue?!! Olympus really should flash up a message when you select both as it sounds like it is not even something that someone would want to deliberately do for a particular shot. When I switched from Nikon to Olympus to photograph Rugby I was horrified at how bad the CAF was and so kept the Nikon just to use for sports. I might have been keeping the Nikon for nothing!

[@robinwong]

I agree, Olympus could have done a better job at communicating the CAF with L sequential burst

[@johnbelli9390]

Can you do one for n00bs with just an EM-10? Some of the tips here don't work on E-M10 III, like the silent shutter, which is only available in AP mode. I'm looking for "what I should do once I have done as much as I can with AUTO mode."

[@SVORR1]

Would've loved to use Tip 3, 1:1 preview image playback, but nothing similar I can find in Em-5ii.

[@robinwong]

So far only newer OM-D cameras have that.

[@jeffreyschneider6996]

Robin, I really appreciate your video tip sequences! Recently I saw a set of cards which work as checklists of settings to use in generality for functions like portraits, landscapes, etc. What I would like using the same concept is cards for each individual Olympus OM-D camera, especially the one I have (lol) ! Would you or Olympus be interested in producing such an aid? Or perhaps there is one I don’t know about? Thanks

[@verbraekenchristophe8233]

Great tips!Thanks ;) grtz from Belgium.

[@robinwong]

Cheers!

[@strac2534]

Thank you

[@robinwong]

You are welcome!

[@JLiu-fn5gv]

Hi Robin, can I present a concern about the continues auto-focus part? For e-m1 (mark I), it is officially announced that the c-af can work effectively up to 9 fps (from firmware ver. 3.0), which only appears at HIGH sequential burst. In fact, the upper limit of L burst rate is only 6.5 fps. In this case, the c-af should work at HIGH burst rate as long as we don't set it to over 9 fps, right?

[@robinwong]

I don't have an E-M1 to verify this, but you may be right. As long as it is not faster than 9fps, the C-AF should work.

[@RuiMiguelDaSilvaPinto]

Great video. Is there a way of seeing the SCP while using the EVF? I had a problem with my screen with my first OMD EM10 markii (the cable got loose) and I couldn't access the SCP.

[@robinwong]

When you are shooting through the EVF, press the OK button. That should call up the SCP. I have not tried this in a while, but let me know if it works. No camera near me to verify this at the moment.

[@raaisma]

Thank you for the OK button tips. I didn't know you can do that! P/S: would love to see the outtakes of your video if there's any 😁

[@robinwong]

Thanks! I should probably do a bloopers reel.

[@solvm1652]

I never knew curves could be adjusted!

[@robinwong]

I will explore the Highlight & Shadow Control in my next coming video, in a few days time! Stay tuned.

[@rand0mon3-m3k]

My OM-D E-M10 Mark1 not always S-AF , most of the times when i try point it out to a target, it starts to AF but it stops before focus.. I then must Manual AF since the camera doenst do it properly. Lens is 14-42mm and it works in other OM-D E-M10 Mark1 i have. Any ideas what can it be? Thank you in advance :)

[@johanesjulianto2032]

Which is the best Em 5 mk 2 or Em 1 mk 1 Low budget please

[@crscrsss4133]

Hei Robin,I have a question about omd m1.1? Is there any way to turn off and on Face Detection from a single button?

[@robinwong]

I don't think there is.

[@LarsKiel]

👍 Good tips ...

[@robinwong]

Thanks!