How I Quickly Set Up My Olympus OM-D

[@jupiterleomedia3673]

Hello Robin, you are the best Olympus Visionary on KZbin! Really enjoy for tips and your teaching style is friendly and easy to follow for beginners. Olympus please give this guy a raise! :) Cheers from NYC.

[@howardcurtiss5048]

Thank you Robin. This particular video really helps my confidence with resetting my camera and getting it back in the game without much fuss.

[@robinwong]

You just need to remember the few important settings that you use!

[@alexreay4164]

Great video Robin. Olympus should include this with every OMD sale

[@robinwong]

Thanks Alex, you are too kind!

[@atargiros]

Hello Robbin, I see your videos for some months now and finally it’s time to put all the knowledge in practice. I just bought the em 1 mark II with the 60m f2.8 macro len. My previous camera was the Olympus esp 100 and my old film camera the Olympus OM 4 T. Thanks for all I learn from you.

[@nlanca1]

More wise words from Robin Wong... Please keep them coming.

[@robinwong]

Thanks!

[@Rebla01]

Thanks so much for taking the time out to make this video Robin. It’s just the kind of thing I like 👌

[@robinwong]

Thanks Andy, appreciate the kind words.

[@silviuavramescu4616]

Can you show us more videos how we can set up the camera for, portret, street, landscape and art? Thank you for the video it helps me

[@MikeJarvisExperienceTheWild]

Just got my OM-D M1 MKll yesterday... excited to learn the features... Have had OM-D 10 Mkll for a couple of years... Thanks Robin

[@AllenMaestas]

It is quite evident that you are very familiar with the Olympus settings Robin haha, wow fast. Now you just need to do tutorials on landscape settings, sports settings, and wildlife settings. Just kidding! It's going to take me a while to learn the Olympus system, and what each setting does, which settings are not compatible, and which settings or functions work with RAW and or JPEG. I figure it's going to take me a few months before I feel confident with my settings for each style of photography. Thanks for another great video.

[@kenpowell3558]

Nice vlog Robin I just reload the basics if I have too. You could of mentioned that you can back up all your camera settings using Olympus workspace if you have made a lot of customs to your camera . Then you can reload at a later time

[@robinwong]

I was showing how to quickly set up a camera in an emergency situation. Say something happened to the camera and you have no choice but to do hard reset. And you still have to shoot!

[@kenpowell3558]

@@robinwong Yes I understood that. But you could have told people about the Olympus workspace as a lot of people don't know you can save your settings and just reload at a later time

[@robinwong]

@@kenpowell3558 there are a 1000 things that I could have told people, then the video will be 5 hours long.

[@kenpowell3558]

@@robinwong Yes but this would have given people reassurance that they don't have to panic that they have lost all the settings that might have taken them a long time to find and setup

[@robinwong]

@@kenpowell3558 that's the point of this video. You can just set it up from scratch easily in one minute or less. And I am doing my best to demonstrate that. No need all the other hassle.

[@bevisual]

you are the best!

[@Mr1970827]

Hello Robin I finally purchased my OM-D 1 Mark III. I love it, but coming from my Nikon DSLR is a huge learning curve. But I'm sure with your help it will be pretty fast for me getting to know this Beast of a camera...

[@DaveParizek]

Now please please maybe do a video on the new OM-1 - your settings with it for setup - since it has different screens? (-:

[@izzylee5728]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

[@jconeto]

Thanks you for this great video. It's a great help.

[@robinwong]

Glad I could help!

[@pramodpal8567]

Im satisfied bro thank you very much kim jong,

[@mirandavandenberk786]

Thank you so much

[@yac1066]

EAnd when it's OK, save your settings on your vai Olympus Workspace ...

[@stevebonn3463]

Thanks for some great tips, Robin! That's a lot of information to absorb from a video. Could you put those settings in writing on your blog?

[@robinwong]

I have thought about that but the settings are so much easier and quicker to show in video, than writing!

[@MagicGamer28]

Hey Robin! Love your channel and actually binge watched all your videos when I found out about you last week haha! I'm currently in the market to upgrade from the Olympus OM-D EM5 (2011 Edition). I was curious if you feel the EM 1 Mark ii is still a worthwhile camera to buy in 2019? The only thing that has made the decision harder is the soon to be released EM5 Mark iii. I'm curious your thoughts. Thanks and keep up these awesome videos (and can't wait for more shutter therapy vids!)

[@robinwong]

Thanks for the kind words. It really depends on what you use the camera for. In a pro shooting environment, the E-M1 Mark II thrives with better/beefier hand-holding grip and much longer battery life. Not to mention the larger EVF. The E-M5 Mark III is not designed to be used extensively in serious shooting conditions, but for everything else, it shines.

[@MagicGamer28]

@@robinwong Thank you! Will keep that in mind as I keep looking and save up :)!

[@NewoolDoge]

@@MagicGamer28 Also consider the price. If you don't mind the bulk and size of the EM1 Mark II, it is actually a much better deal than the EM5 Mark III. You can get a new EM1 Mark II body for around RM4.8k right now, while the new EM5 Mark III body alone is more than RM5k. If I had the money and I want an upgrade, I would have picked the EM1 Mark II! But that's just me. Still, if you travel a lot and do a lot of street photography, perhaps the EM5 Mark III is better. Cheers!

[@BatuHijau]

Thanks for a great video. Please do it a little slower for dummies like me who struggle to follow. 🤔😅

[@taair6270]

Hi Robin very informative video again . Please can you do an in-depth tutorial on using the stary sky AF mode on the Em 1 mk 3 such as what mode do you use? ie manual aperture priority auto iso etc I’ve seen lots of tutorials on this feature but no one mentions what shooting mode is best to use so can you help here please cheers.

[@TheFoodPedia]

Still thinking should I buy a Olympus OM-D, I have a M.Zuiko 12-40mm which I love it very much.

[@robinwong]

Why not? The M.Zuiko 12-40mm was designed specifically to be fitted perfectly on an OM-D.

[@ThatguyRiz]

I have the OMD em1 MK 2. How do you make the super control transparent as in see thru?

[@iamhyee]

for me if I don't like function level default I will assign it to be power on/off level instead ^^

[@ToberMTF]

So quickly :O ^^ (TY!)

[@rogerforeman7908]

Why not save these settings to a custom mode. Enjoy your videos THANKYOU!

[@jeffcassar8062]

Hi Robin I recently watched your video on How to shoot Lightning but I would like to know What wide angle lens would you recommend I have a OM-D E-M10MK2 Also what settings would you use for shooting high speed aircraft I use a 14 - 150mm lens. Thanks Jeff

[@minhienmh2]

Hi I love your channel. But could you please help me to set up video recording buton for olympus o md5.Thanks

[@edstingray3828]

Is there a video on seat up.OMD EM1

[@AnastasTarpanov]

I'm curious why you're not using AdobeRGB color space? And also I always backup my settings to the computer, and restore them to different cameras when I use them, but I wished this option to be available to record/restore from an SD card if possible even to apps to the phone Ol. Share/Tracker, hope you pass that to Olympus :)

[@robinwong]

Because my laptop screen, my desktop monitor, my smartphone screen and my tablet screen are all showing sRGB. If I use Adobe RGB, none of the screens I have show the colors and also the majority of people in the world see only sRGB so there is no point to use Adobe RGB unless you are into professional printing environment

[@AnastasTarpanov]

@@robinwong yeah, print forever! I always shoot in AdobeRGB and export in sRGB for digital use but prefer to have the maximum flexibility for the print.

[@robinwong]

If you shoot RAW, the color information is a lot more than sRGB or Adobe RGB captures. It doesn't matter.

[@chasx7062]

Hey'all, where can I access the 13 setting: Enable 1:1 Image Playback in the EM-1 MkI please??

[@mitchsamson]

I use an EM1 Mark 2 with Panasonic lenses. Do I use the IS on both equipment or use on or the other (the Body IS or the Lens IS)? All equipment have the latest firmware. Thank you!

[@timothykieper]

My Menu setup ?? Can't find it ??

[@michelbrochard8224]

Hi. If you store the settings in a custom mode, does the reset also clean/reset this custom mode to void/nothing?

[@snowwalker9999]

Robin, in EM1 MKii and EM5 MKiii could you choose a minimum shutter speed when you are in aperture priority and Auto-ISO? Do those two cameras have that feature?

[@robinwong]

Yes, they have.

[@DrJWR1]

Good afternoon, Robin. I have my MK II set up to write ORF raw files to cadr 1 and jpg to card 2. Sometimes jpgs appear on card 1, along with the raw files. Simultaneously, the jpg is on card 2. Any thoughts on that? Also, I went on a birding trip recently when only the very first photo I took that day showed up on the cards. Same for both cards. Later in the same day in a different location all pictures were written to both cards normally. That happened only once, but I'd like to prevent it happening again.. Thanks! Jim

[@yolandegouin4545]

I love your videos Mr Wong, they are very interesting! But you speak so fast and I have problems to follow (I speak french and I have to translale too!) Have you made a book with all those tips???

[@dougywougy5016]

You will have to replay the video over and over to understand his fast talking and his accent. In addition I suggest getting the full instruction manual for any given camera, the English version for the E-M1 mark 2 is 194 pages , I do not know about a French version. Doug

[@marklaurendet1861]

A nice quick overview, But I do wish Olympus would add the option to save a reload setting from the SD card like Panasonic

[@robinwong]

You can do so via Olympus Workspace.

[@marklaurendet1861]

@@robinwong But I would like the option to save and restore out in the field for when things go wrong. As far as I know one needs to hook up to a PC to use work space, or am I missing something ?

[@azharhotplate9222]

Hii Robin.. Can i use this setting OMD for shoot macrography photo? I also using Em1 mark ii. Thanks🙏

[@robinwong]

I do have a video about macro shooting. Please watch that video. I share EVERYTHING.

[@Mitsui96]

Hi Robin, I set the Anti-shock to 0 sec just as you do but I could not find the square with diamond in the SCP. The symbol next to the blank square is the square with heart. Any suggest what was wrong in my setting? Thanks.

[@robinwong]

This is the perfect example of why I would not hesitate to reset the camera. There are possibly a dozen reasons that could cause the issue you described. After a fresh reset, the problem will disappear!

[@Mitsui96]

Thanks Robin, you are right. Once reset my camera, it is back to normal.

[@LarsKiel]

👍

[@MrPhilbautista]

Thanks for sharing but you talk to fast so it's very difficult to keep up with your explanations and grasp the importance of why you set it up that way. It would've been nicer if you slowed up a bit and showed illustrations of how a certain set up affects your shooting experience.

[@robinwong]

This was never meant to be a full set up video. The purpose of this video is to have a camera quickly set up, in case need to fully reset it, for whatever reasons. When I do have time and not in a rush, I set up the camera differently. So, of course it is quick, and if you find certain settings hard to follow, you just have to pause them and replay that part. I don't have the time, energy and resource to make a one hour video to explain why I use each and every setting. That is also pointless, everyone sets the camera differently, and I am not suggesting you follow me. This video was to help you get over the fear of resetting your camera if you have to.

[@gibixswing]

Hi Robin, i wish I could save all my customized settings on the card, so that I can restore them later, can you do it on the Olympus? I own the E-M1x and I find it annoying that I can't do it.

[@robinwong]

You can save it via Olympus Workspace. You should NOT find it annoying, you should be able to quickly reset the settings. That was what I was trying to say in this video. It is not difficult.

[@kurbybro]

With the original OMD EM-1 camera with latest upgrade, I have set a negative 10db on the external mic and -10db settings in the camera I still getting above -12db on the meter. If the signal is below zero but still hitting red on the camera meter, will that cause distortion (concert environment)? Anyway to lower these numbers since camera's amplifier seems too hot at even when to the lowest (-1)db)?

[@robinwong]

I think you are asking this question at the wrong place. This video was about setting up the camera for photography shooting. Also, I am not a video shooter, and I don't do much audio as well. Maybe find another KZbinr with more experience in this subject? If I answer your question now I think I will just make things worse.

[@tomek7855]

Robin how is the viewfinder in comparsion to competition oled?

[@robinwong]

The E-M1 Mark II's LCD is progressive scan, meaning it is true 120fps refresh rate, giving you minimal lag and very smooth viewing experience than other competition EVF that used interlaced frame rate.

[@tomek7855]

@@robinwong i think EM1X is progressive not EM1 MK2

[@robinwong]

@@tomek7855 where did you get that wrong info? E-M1 Mark II's EVF has progressive 120hz frame rate. Here is an official source: www.olympusamerica.com/corporate/corp_presscenter_headline.asp?pressNo=2159 Excerpt: " As found on the OM-D E-M1 Mark II, a 120 fps (progressive scan)"

[@alexreay4164]

@Tomek IMO it’s brilliant. I forget I’m looking at an electronic screen. You would have to move the camera very fast to see any lag, in fact to achieve any lag you’d have to move the camera so fast you wouldn’t be able to take a photo anyway. The camera is 3 years old so it’s unfair to compare to competition unless doing so from a similar period.

[@dougk9235]

Just got this camera OM-D-MkII. I found your video very difficult to follow for a new owner. You go way to fast to keep up and follow on my camera. You jump around way too much. Do you offer any other videos for an new user. Thanks

[@leric4205]

Présentation des réglages un peu trop rapide, dommage. Sinon vidéo très intéressante ;)

[@yolandegouin4545]

Bien d'accord avec cette remarque! Ouille et en anglais!!! Je me demandais justement si on peut trouver cette information sur le blogue ou ailleurs,

[@guyracine7998]

On peut le trouver sur son blog: robinwong.blogspot.com/2019/11/robin-wongs-om-d-cheat-sheet-updated.html.

[@dandanu2526]

Can"t follow you...too fast!:))

[@mirandavandenberk786]

Thank you so Much