Olympus OMD EM1 MKIII Setup Tutorial 2020

[@PhotogenicProperties]

Still relevant info after all this time..and so is my OLY. :)...thanks Joe..miss your videos .

[@georgeberner2835]

Hey Joe, Sure do miss your smiling face. Funny thing, it's after 1 January and my Olympus cameras and lenses still take fabulous photos. I even bought new lenses and I'm thinking about buying a new Olympus camera. The world has not ended, my cameras and lenses have not exploded and I'm having fun making photographs. Ps. my photos have improved thanks to some great advice from a certain photographer from Dallas, Texas.

[@equinephotographer9881]

It's 2022, just watched. Excellent presentation, with the rationale for the selection. THANKS

[@rickbear7249]

Joseph, it's great to see you're adding your creative insight to the de facto Gold Standard series of Olympus How To videos produced by Rob Trek. While Rob Trek is the go-to guy in providing the "101 Essentials" tutorials for mastering Olympus' many and complex menu settings, along with clear explanations and essential understanding, I'm sure Olympus owners will appreciate how you've built upon Rob Trek's complete series by adding your own invaluable insights. Nice one, Rick (UK-based professional photographer and technical educator)

[@MDMiller60]

Ok, went thru this video when I rented an M1 III and now I have bought one, so I just finished video again. Thanks again for doing this. Very helpful to me. I just have to run thru the video settings.

[@erosario64]

Where did you go Joe? Please come back.

[@marketguy2]

Excellent. I learned a number of little things I didn't know. Many thanks.

[@RobertSchav1]

Brilliant guide-should be provided by Olympus.This guide is seriously good as he explains how to do something but also why. Thank you for your help.

[@Franc842]

Excellent

[@willfriedrich2256]

Thanks Joseph. I jumped from an e-m5 to a e-m1 mkiii and this video helped be setup a good baseline for it.

[@furiousdoe7779]

Hi Joseph .... all o.k. ? Keep strong during this strange times ... Hope to see you soon again over here .

[@timothylee5824]

Really great tips all conveniently and well organized. Great explanations. Thank you!

[@ricklewis5869]

Thank you!! This is the most complicated menu system on the market & this was a huge help. This helped me immensely in figuring out the set up. Now, I have to learn the new focusing system. :-)

[@mikeennis851]

Thank you so much. I just got an em1 mk3 and these settings are very helpful. Already own a Pen F but this has a lot more features.

[@gordonmackinnon817]

Fellow PenF and EM1mkiii owner

[@georgeberner2835]

Miss your smiling face and great photography information.

[@AngelAibar]

Thanks Joseph for the càmera settings tips. I found some of them very helpful. 👍🏻

[@jamesallen1904]

Excellent video. I found this so helpful even coming from an EM-1 II. Thank you so much.

[@TXTundra-ex8bw]

I can always count on you thank you for these tips from a fellow Texan and recent Olympus converter

[@originaljamtracks]

What an exceptional overview, immensely grateful

[@starkravenmad3206]

I just bouts used mi kiii and found this video very helpful. Thanks

[@Meriweather50]

Thanks Joe. Just got mine and this was super helpful. Sure beats plodding through the manual.

[@GaborBerta01]

This video is also perfectly usable to set up the OM System OM-5 camera!

[@Carol-us9yr]

Thanks Joseph, you made my mark 111 a lot easier to work.

[@alexmetcalfe4668]

Joe, this was a fantastic vid. I literally just shot a documentary on my EM5 MKII and was so annoyed at having to keep adjusting the aperture and shutter speed. Good to know this won't happen with the EM1 MKIII.

[@martynphillips6646]

I mean c'mon, such a good vlog! Really useful info, great quality both in audio and video and some key settings, awesome job and thanks so much for taking the time, really appreciate it!

[@mikewalker3800]

Many thanks Joseph for this very informative video. I've just ordered my MKIII and will find a re-watch of this video, with the camera in front of me, very helpful.

[@leonfourie5717]

Hi Joe What happened to you. Are you still with olympus(OM Digital Solutions). Really liked you tutorial videos. Everybody is asking. Please can you come back and do some video.

[@mirandavandenberk786]

Thank you,this is great, Just buy this camera,thanks for explain the settings

[@PaintedCloudsStudio]

Thank you very much, Joseph. Your video helps me a lot. When you have time, I would like to see a similar one on video, the best settings etc.

[@videomax702]

Interesting that I found your channel as my grandfather’s name was Joseph Ellis.

[@Walter-be9dr]

many thanks Joseph very helpful

[@alanplatt888]

Very helpful video, I hope ;-). I'm picking up my EM-1 Mkiii tomorrow. You have saved me a lot of time for working out the differences between the Mkii & Mkiii (I PX'd my EM1X) for the Mkiii. I'm looking forward to using the Mkiii, now knowing some basics of the new menu & set up features. However I think the Mkii is still an awesome camera. Thanks again for taking time out to help us Olympus users cut through usage tips & tricks. Stay safe

[@ThienNguyen-wq7yd]

this is extremely helpful. thank you so much!

[@johnscherrer8323]

Thank you! Just got the EM1 III and this was great. But I have a question, is there away to set the power function to a button as opposed to the switch on the top left?

[@gavinedmondstone316]

Perfect timing, my EM1 mk iii arrives today!

[@yamakawa511]

Thanks Joseph, really helpful. I'm getting my head around the Mkiii, it feels like real step up from my Mki. Y

[@QuantumJ67]

Excellent tips and settings! You’ve made my camera so much easier to use!

[@monicathiel3592]

Avesome video, thank's a lot. Are these settings also suitable for those who shoot onla in JPG?

[@furiousdoe7779]

Hi Joseph .... I hope that you and your family is o.k and healthy . Still I hope that you will return and add some nice items on this beauty of a channel . Kind regards ..stay strong .

[@mr_k4tz]

Excellent video as usual. I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but there’s a small bass boom every time you move your hands onto the desk. When listening through headphones it’s really distracting (almost unwatchable for me but I suffer from Misophonia). Perhaps some padding between the mic mount and desk would help, or perhaps you could filter out the low frequencies.

[@MDMiller60]

Thanks Joseph. I am preparing to rent an EM1 III and a lens or two to test out and consider changing systems and buying an Olympus system. Nothing wrong with my Nikon system (D750 FF plus many lenses), just getting heavy for me and doesn't have the speed and features of Olympus. Full frame sensor was good for me, tho.

[@robfielding100]

Could I ask your advice for Custom Dial for Portrait settings, Night Landscape shots, Long Exposure Light painting shots and Macro / Model shooting. Thanks for this helpful video

[@JerryJamesphoto]

Good Vid Joe! I’m glad to see your an Olympus educator :)

[@ronyap65]

Thanks for part-1... part-2 please 😊

[@hikingsteven7665]

Hi Joseph how are you ? are everything ok with you and your family hope to see you soon again God bless you

[@chasingluminance]

Very helpful

[@jimbean532]

This was SO helpful!!! Thank you very much! :)

[@wantagehoward]

Excellent. Thanks Joseph.

[@missti9012]

Hope you are OK, we miss you!

[@drsoakwood]

Thanks for your great video. A question on back button focus...when you make halfway autofocus inoperative - what is the impact in pro capture mode? It is designed to begin capturing images when your focus button is halfway depressed...???

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

Doug Stansfield To activate ProCap you still need to maintain pressure on the trigger even though it won’t be focusing the camera. You’ll always see a green circle indicator in the viewfinder/LCD when ProCap is active.

[@drsoakwood]

@@JosephEllisPhotographer Thank you Joe!

[@Bakin]

Joseph; I hope all is well with you. We haven't heard from you in a while and I thought I would reach out to ask how you are doing. A lot has happened in the last few months. Best Regards

[@px5ix4pz6j]

Can you make a video on how to set it to make a cinematic video?

[@brianlaunchbury4491]

Useful and clear. Thank you, stay safe and well.

[@sverreedin4229]

A lot of excellent tips - thank you!

[@sverreedin4229]

The only thing I find strange is to use exposure compensation button for something else.. How do you change exp.comp?

[@hemantpatil7558]

Thank you for your time 😊

[@davidalanphotography1]

that was Great! Thanks!

[@richardpolichetti7757]

Hi again- is there a way to lock down all buttons so that while shooting none are accidentally pressed? While on a shoot I accidentally pressed the HDR button on the top left and the camera stopped "regular" shooting. I was stunned for a while and it took me two minutes to figure it out (seemed like forever while on a shoot). Any ideas for this? TY!

[@tonirobinson6452]

Can you provide your rationale for choosing mode 4 rather than mode 3 for C-AF (for AEL/AFL "back button" focus)?

[@blackice5649]

Joe - Fantastic video! Thanks for the great insight as usual. I do have a question though. When the the Half Way AF selection is "operative" I am able to see the actual focus point of the picture that was taken cycling through the info choices. When I select "Inoperative" the recorded focus point disappears when I cycle through the info choices. Is there any way to see the recorded focus point while having "Inoperative" selected under Half Way AF?

[@barakoved9153]

Hi joseph waiting for your'e next clip its been a long time

[@judilion4110]

Hi Joseph - some great tips but somewhere along the way, I've changed something that doesn't allow me to see the histogram itself move when I press the INFO button. The bar moves either side (+/-) but the histogram itself doesn't. What did I change to make this happen?

[@spanksen]

Hey Joseph, really helpful Video, thank you so much for that. Just one Question - for the EM1MK2 you prefered the S-OVF for Shooting with Flash, now it´s the Live Boost Funktion. Where is the difference between these two modes and why do you prefer Live Boost now? Thank you very much!

[@quickklik]

hi i followed this to the every word by pausing while i changed my settings when i take a photo now it's black and when i try to auto-focus the camera flickers constantly any ideas what this could be ?

[@charliemans6034]

Can you add time stamps in your description? for your focus settings...Thanks

[@Rage63]

You say you don't use BBF however you then say you have the focus set to the AEL button and use the shutter button to only take the photograph, Isn't that BBF ?

[@MDMiller60]

John and Everyone, are the EM1 MkIII shortcomings of the EVF and LCD in resolution and refresh, plus noise control, dealbreakers for buying?

[@Mr.Tralfamadorian]

Thank you!!

[@Bakin]

Joseph; thanks for taking the time to go over all these settings; I'm sure it took a lot of your time to find the best setting for each situation. I'm curious knowing how many settings you have whether you save those settings to a memory card or other device so they can easily be loaded should that ever be required?

[@alexmetcalfe4668]

You can save them to through the Olympus Workspace software bro.

[@tobiashaufele6001]

Have you stopped KZbin postings?

[@davidalan8824]

Joseph, that was Great! Thanks!. Question: how do you turn on phase detect (you mentioned it at the end of the video.)

[@PaintedCloudsStudio]

I think he meant Face Detect. I don't think you can change Phase detect on the menu.

[@naisanza]

How does bluetooth work with it?

[@MDMiller60]

The as nks Joseph. I can't find turning on the vlinkies. Halp.

[@Bakin]

Joseph; you have made two recent informative videos discussing the new and improved Continuous Auto Focus (CAF) and Face Detect (FD) of the new Olympus EM1 MKIII. I believe the improvements you were discussing are those improvements specific to the EM1 MKIII and not improvements made to all Olympus cameras as a result of recent firmware upgrades. As a result the CAF and FD improvements you discussed are not applicable (as yet) to the EM1 MKII, EM1X or even the EM5 MKIII. Unless I have missed something here I think there is need for a video comparing CAF and FD of the EM5 MKIII, EM1 MKII, EM1X against the EM1 MKIII.

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

Great idea, let me see what I can do.

[@Bakin]

George Bacon; great!

[@hellotorin]

Great video! Just picked this camera up the other week. I'm using the Olympus smartphone app and it downgrades my video quality from 4K to FHD when I go to record. Is there any way to prevent this? I'm just looking to use my phone as a 'monitor' and to be able to hit Record and control some of the settings. I'm not so much concerned with being able to transfer or play video back on my phone which is why I think it does this? Thanks again.

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

I think it's a bandwidth limitation if you want to get that live feed but if you're just needing to check at the beginning of a recording you could switch the functionality of the app after you get set up to use the "Remote Trigger" option under [gear icon - remote control - remote shutter] and that won't send any video to your phone so you should be good for 4K recording.

[@hellotorin]

@@JosephEllisPhotographer thank you!

[@MDMiller60]

In the video settings, how did you get to Plug-In Power on, from Sound on?

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

[Move Menu] - [Movie Sound (microphone icon) set to ON] - [ Right Arrow to Page over] - [Plug in Power On]

[@MDMiller60]

Video - Phase/Face? detect. Hard to tell which you meant. And, whichever it was, where is it (video time mark)? You didn't say.

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

Not sure I understand your question. The EM1.3 has both. Phase detect is a key technology which keeps the camera from hunting for focus and it's been there since the EM1.2. Accurate and usable face detect is unique to the EM1.3., it's the first OMD which I can rely on to accurately track faces for portraiture. I turn it on/off from the super control panel.

[@brassklezmer]

Where are you Joseph???!!!!! We miss you 😭 We need you...

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

new video coming the end of the week... I'm filming new stuff as we speak.

[@IlyaAndreev-1]

Hi Everyone ! Please I need help! I turned off live boost in manual mode but still see picture in dark environment. I need true exposer on my LCD screen....

[@JosephEllisPhotographer]

Look at the S-OVF function, turn it off, that's the only other thing that would affect the viewfinder other than LV Boost

[@IlyaAndreev-1]

@@JosephEllisPhotographer thanks for your reply 🙏 I ll check it out

[@IlyaAndreev-1]

@@JosephEllisPhotographer I did it but still can see my preview bright in dark condition environment... it's not super bright but anyway ... what else it can be ?...

[@joelarnol5134]

Bonjour , super tuto , dommage qu’il ne soit pas possible de mettre des sous titres en Français

[@MathieuGougeon]

Sous-titres en français ok pourtant

[@joelarnol5134]

@@MathieuGougeon bonjour, merci pour la réponse, mais lorsque je clique sur sous titre, je n’ai que lAnglais de proposé

[@MathieuGougeon]

@@joelarnol5134 sur téléphone et tablette oui mais sur PC ca fonctionne choisir sous-titre puis icone petit engrenage juste a coté puis traduire automatiquement choisir Français.

[@joelarnol5134]

@@MathieuGougeon Bonjour Mathieu, merci pour ta réponse . Je vais rester sur le Mac, je regarde en général toujours sur l’iPad . Merci et bonne journée

[@joelarnol5134]

Hello Mathieu, je viens de regarder sur le Mac et effectivement traduction Français ok, merci encore et bonne journée

[@DTAnglesey]

Great video, thank you for taking the time to create it and share it with us! Also for the two morons that have left thumb down, they need to stay of drugs and get a life!!!

[@marymontedescubriendogranc1794]

Una pena no tenga subtítulos en Español

[@elenamoses8064]

Lots of appreciation here for your tutorial but this does not start with basic set up for me. Misnomer of a title. Start with turning the camera on..... then what?

[@DessieTots]

“I don’t like back button focus”…”I press the AEL/AF button to focus and the shutter button to make the exposure”? Let’s Go Brandon.

[@Koji-888]

Back Button focusing is for certain applications. For me.. I turn it on when I’m shooting birds at my back yard bird feeder. My camera is on the couch next to me. When I see a cool bird I just press the shutter button. The focus doesn’t have to hunt in and out. It’s already perfectly set focused for that exact spot.

[@dayeah765caoni3]

hello？！

[@martinjones3427]

FFS get on with it...