Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[John Sessoms]

That's cool, but what did you take the photo with?

On 4/14/2022 6:18 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

I’ll just leave this here…….

http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/pen.html

Cheers

Cotty


On 7 Apr 2022, at 18:13, Larry Colen  wrote:

that still leaves the question of glass
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Larry Colen]

> On Apr 15, 2022, at 12:06 AM, John Francis  wrote:
> 
> 
> you know, I might have one of those (and a K-mount to u4/3 adapter) lying 
> around.
> I've definitely got an A50mm/f1.4, an A50mm/f1.7, and an M28mm/f2.8; I'm just 
> not
> entirely sure whether or not I hung on to an M50mm/1.4 to keep my MX company.

I think I’ve got a couple of supertak 50/1.4s lying around.


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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[John Francis]

you know, I might have one of those (and a K-mount to u4/3 adapter) lying 
around.
I've definitely got an A50mm/f1.4, an A50mm/f1.7, and an M28mm/f2.8; I'm just 
not
entirely sure whether or not I hung on to an M50mm/1.4 to keep my MX company.


On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:18:44PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
> I???ll just leave this here??.
> 
> http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/pen.html
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cotty
> 
> 
> On 7 Apr 2022, at 18:13, Larry Colen  wrote:
> 
> that still leaves the question of glass
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Steve Cottrell]

I’ll just leave this here…….

http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/pen.html

Cheers

Cotty


On 7 Apr 2022, at 18:13, Larry Colen  wrote:

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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[John Francis]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:07:54AM -0400, John Francis wrote:
> 
> Last weekend I decided I was going to stick with the lighter system.
> I knew I wanted something wider than 40mm, but I wasn't sure whether
> to go for the 12-40/2.8 or the 12-100/4. I eventually decided to go
> for the 12-100, and add a 2x TC to use with the 40-150 to give me a
> two-lens system of 12-100/4 and 80-300/5.6 (roughly comparable to a
> range of 17-425 on my K5 - giving up 1mm at the wide end, but gaining
> a little more reach than the 350mm I got with the 60-250 & a 1.4x TC).

So - here's a comparison shot of my new and old systems.


Olympus: M1X + 11-100/f4  + 40-150mm/f2.8 +   2xTC
Pentax:  K5  + 16-50/f2.8 + 60-250mm/f4   + 1.4xTC (+ 50-135mm/f2.8)

(The Olympus is shown with the two extra batteries I bought for it;
it goes through batteries a lot faster than the K-5 with the grip,


The Pentax gear is a bit faster at the wide end (16mm/f2.8 vs. 12mm/f4)
But at 40mm the Olympus catches up, and from 90mm (~135mm on the Pentax)
I'm limited to f4 on the Pentax, while the Olympus still offers me f2.8
all the way out to 150mm (~225mm).

I've got a 2xTC for the Olympus 40-150, and a 1.4x for the Pentax 60-250.
These give me f5.6 all the way out to 350mm (Pentax) or 300mm (Olympus);
this means that with the Olympus I have the same maximum aperture, and a
slightly longer reach to fill the frame at the top of the zoom range.

P.S. The comparison shot was taken using my trusty old Olympus E-PL1.
 I decided to take another shot showing the E-PL1 next to its new
 stablemate: 
 This was taken using my phone camera (a Google Pixel 3).
 At first glance the phone camera seems to do considerably better
 than the E-PL1 (not too surprising - the E-PL1 is over 10 years old).
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

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> On Apr 9, 2022, at 3:59 PM, Brian W  wrote:
> 
> Some years ago during the pre-digital era (remember that?) I was in outback
> South Australia when the only camera I had (a Ricoh as it happens) packed it 
> in.
> I was unable to replace it until I reached Adelaide a week or two later 
> (another
> Ricoh!)
> 
> I vowed never to travel without a backup again - and I never have.  I've also
> never again had a camera failure when travelling

Two years ago, on a trip to Oregon, on  my second or third night of 
photographing comet Neowise my K-1 packed it in. 

Fortunately I had backup in the form of a K-3ii and a K-3 with O-GPS.  
Unfortunately, they weren’t as good at the wide angle shots because there 
aren’t fast lenses with as wide of an AoV for APS.

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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Brian W]

Some years ago during the pre-digital era (remember that?) I was in outback
South Australia when the only camera I had (a Ricoh as it happens) packed it in.
I was unable to replace it until I reached Adelaide a week or two later (another
Ricoh!)

I vowed never to travel without a backup again - and I never have.  I've also
never again had a camera failure when travelling

Cheers
Brian

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> On 10 April 2022 at 01:16 Alan C  wrote:
> 
> 
> John, a lot of sense in which you say. I have never been that fussy & 
> luckily have never had a crisis. I have retained my K110D body just in 
> case my K5 packs up some day but don't cart it around with me. In fact I 
> still use it occasionally just for the hell of it. If I don't need to 
> crop much, it does quite well. I also have a mint MZ-60 which I haven't 
> used for some time because there is no local film lab & the logistics & 
> expense of sending films to Cape Town is not on. (Film is still alive & 
> well down there). My fav. film camera was an ME-Super which I gave away 
> to a mate in Port Elizabeth still shooting film. All my photography has 
> been personal, never professional.
> 
> Alan C
> 
> On 08-Apr-22 11:54 PM, John Francis wrote:
> > On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> >> For me, one camera is quite enough.
> > I've run into enough situations where one camera isn't enough to always want
> > a backup in my camera bag.
> >
> > For one thing I spent a few years earning my ticket into motorsports events
> > by shooting for a website.  That taught me that there are occasions when you
> > don't have time to swap lenses on a camera - you barely have time to switch
> > to the second camera setup.
> >
> > For another thing, there are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities where having a
> > second body with you is worth it just for insurance.
> > When I got a one-year job assignment in New Zealand one of the items on my
> > shopping list for the stop-off in Singapore on the way from London to
> > Auckland was an ME to sit alongside my MX (plus an M80-200 zoom and a few
> > other goodies).  Ever since then I've almost always had two camera bodies in
> > the bag.
> >
> > Then there was the time when the MX Motor Drive bent the coupling in my MX.
> >  Fortunately that had become my second body - by that time my primary camera
> > was a PZ-1p.
> >
> > And there was the time the PZ-1p stopped working on a rainy race day at
> > Laguna Seca. It was fine when it dried out after a couple of hours, but by
> > then the race was over.  But the trusty old MX filled in just fine.
> >
> > Or the time when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower, and knocked
> > (most of) my MZ-S off the back of my big zoom. Again, having the PZ-1p along
> > as well meant I could continue shooting.
> >
> > And, of course, in the film days it was nice to have a second body so that
> > you could have two different types of film to hand.
> >
> >
> > I don't have anywhere near as many cameras as Godfrey, but I have still got
> > a fair number of the cameras I've used over the years.
> > I have owned:
> > Brownie 127
> > Hanimex 35mm
> > Olympus Pen half-frame.
> > (I don't have any of those, but I do have my father's Ilford Sportsman
> > 35mm).
> > Spotmatic II (later donated to a friend).
> > MX
> > ME (donated to a different friend)
> > ME Super
> > Super Program
> > PZ-1p
> > MX #2 (black)
> > MZ-S
> > Canon G1
> > Olympus EPL-1
> > *ist-D
> > K10D
> > K-5
> > Olympus OM-D E-M1X :-)
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Alan C]

John, a lot of sense in which you say. I have never been that fussy & 
luckily have never had a crisis. I have retained my K110D body just in 
case my K5 packs up some day but don't cart it around with me. In fact I 
still use it occasionally just for the hell of it. If I don't need to 
crop much, it does quite well. I also have a mint MZ-60 which I haven't 
used for some time because there is no local film lab & the logistics & 
expense of sending films to Cape Town is not on. (Film is still alive & 
well down there). My fav. film camera was an ME-Super which I gave away 
to a mate in Port Elizabeth still shooting film. All my photography has 
been personal, never professional.


Alan C

On 08-Apr-22 11:54 PM, John Francis wrote:

On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:

For me, one camera is quite enough.

I've run into enough situations where one camera isn't enough to always want a 
backup in my camera bag.

For one thing I spent a few years earning my ticket into motorsports events by 
shooting for a website.  That taught me that there are occasions when you don't 
have time to swap lenses on a camera - you barely have time to switch to the 
second camera setup.

For another thing, there are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities where having a 
second body with you is worth it just for insurance.
When I got a one-year job assignment in New Zealand one of the items on my 
shopping list for the stop-off in Singapore on the way from London to Auckland 
was an ME to sit alongside my MX (plus an M80-200 zoom and a few other 
goodies).  Ever since then I've almost always had two camera bodies in the bag.

Then there was the time when the MX Motor Drive bent the coupling in my MX.  
Fortunately that had become my second body - by that time my primary camera was 
a PZ-1p.

And there was the time the PZ-1p stopped working on a rainy race day at Laguna 
Seca. It was fine when it dried out after a couple of hours, but by then the 
race was over.  But the trusty old MX filled in just fine.

Or the time when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower, and knocked (most 
of) my MZ-S off the back of my big zoom. Again, having the PZ-1p along as well 
meant I could continue shooting.

And, of course, in the film days it was nice to have a second body so that you 
could have two different types of film to hand.


I don't have anywhere near as many cameras as Godfrey, but I have still got a 
fair number of the cameras I've used over the years.
I have owned:
Brownie 127
Hanimex 35mm
Olympus Pen half-frame.
(I don't have any of those, but I do have my father's Ilford Sportsman 35mm).
Spotmatic II (later donated to a friend).
MX
ME (donated to a different friend)
ME Super
Super Program
PZ-1p
MX #2 (black)
MZ-S
Canon G1
Olympus EPL-1
*ist-D
K10D
K-5
Olympus OM-D E-M1X :-)
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[John Francis]

On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> For me, one camera is quite enough.

I've run into enough situations where one camera isn't enough to always want a 
backup in my camera bag.

For one thing I spent a few years earning my ticket into motorsports events by 
shooting for a website.  That taught me that there are occasions when you don't 
have time to swap lenses on a camera - you barely have time to switch to the 
second camera setup.

For another thing, there are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities where having a 
second body with you is worth it just for insurance.
When I got a one-year job assignment in New Zealand one of the items on my 
shopping list for the stop-off in Singapore on the way from London to Auckland 
was an ME to sit alongside my MX (plus an M80-200 zoom and a few other 
goodies).  Ever since then I've almost always had two camera bodies in the bag.

Then there was the time when the MX Motor Drive bent the coupling in my MX.  
Fortunately that had become my second body - by that time my primary camera was 
a PZ-1p.

And there was the time the PZ-1p stopped working on a rainy race day at Laguna 
Seca. It was fine when it dried out after a couple of hours, but by then the 
race was over.  But the trusty old MX filled in just fine.

Or the time when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower, and knocked (most 
of) my MZ-S off the back of my big zoom. Again, having the PZ-1p along as well 
meant I could continue shooting.

And, of course, in the film days it was nice to have a second body so that you 
could have two different types of film to hand.


I don't have anywhere near as many cameras as Godfrey, but I have still got a 
fair number of the cameras I've used over the years.
I have owned:
   Brownie 127
   Hanimex 35mm
   Olympus Pen half-frame.
(I don't have any of those, but I do have my father's Ilford Sportsman 35mm).
   Spotmatic II (later donated to a friend).
   MX
   ME (donated to a different friend)
   ME Super
   Super Program
   PZ-1p
   MX #2 (black)
   MZ-S
   Canon G1
   Olympus EPL-1
   *ist-D
   K10D
   K-5
   Olympus OM-D E-M1X :-)
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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Alan C]

What about setting up a LIVING MUSEUM in your lounge?

Alan C

On 08-Apr-22 12:57 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

Are you trying to say I have too many cameras? Well, that could be: when I 
tried to count them all, I lost my place at 113 and didn't bother to restart… 

G



On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:

You guys are crazy. You need a big frame on wheels on which you can mount them all 
& then fire them simultaneously with some sort of automatic device. Then you could 
spend the next week analysing all the images so you can rank them in order of 
sharpness, colour rendition & whatever else you fancy. Then you would be able to 
truly decide which one (or maybe 2) cameras are worth keeping. The balance can be 
donated to a charity shop.

For me, one camera is quite enough.

My tongue is stuck to a cheek now!

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Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[John Francis]

Well, the new OM-1 (which wasn't realeased when I bought my M1X) at
the top-of-the-line point does seem to be about the same price as a K3.
Mind you, although Olympus show the M1X at the full $3000 price point,
there are still a few places (including some Amazon sellers) listing
it at the $1700 price Olympus were offering for a few months last year.
(For reference, the previous M1 model was also around the 2K price that
most sellers seem to be asking for a K3).  Not that I'd suggest the M1X
for a camera you're buying to carrying around on your bike!

There are lots of good u4/3 camera bodies - it really depends on just
how complex you want the camera to be over and above using it as a
point-and-shoot.  I'm trying to persuade my wife that she should get
an M10 as an upgrade replacement for our EPL-1; that way I could use
it as a backup and/or biking/walk-around camera (with the 12-100).
But I'm limiting my choice to Olympus so that I get the full benefit
of their IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization) system - while u4/3 lenses
can be used on any u4/3 body, not all features work across brands.
There's no reason for you to limit your search to just Olympus if you
find a camera from someone else (Panasonic, say) more to your liking.

Good glass isn't going to be cheap, but it's cheaper than glass for
a K3 or K1 :-)  Unless you can find somebody who's prepared to lend
you a nice lens, of course.  Good luck with that ...

P.S. As Godfrey points out, the M1 bodies do have a way to save a
configuration (several different ones, in fact), so resetting to a
known state isn't difficult once you've set up the configuration.

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:13:03AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote:
> I am considering celebrating my new job by getting a u4/3 camera to carry on 
> my bike, possibly an E-M5.  I was poking around last night looking at the 
> current models and a couple of them are up in the K3iii price range, if not 
> more expensive, if you buy them new.
> 
> I did see a couple of bodies on KEH in the $400-800 range, but that still 
> leaves the question of glass.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> > 
> > You guys are crazy. You need a big frame on wheels on which you can mount 
> > them all & then fire them simultaneously with some sort of automatic 
> > device. Then you could spend the next week analysing all the images so you 
> > can rank them in order of sharpness, colour rendition & whatever else you 
> > fancy. Then you would be able to truly decide which one (or maybe 2) 
> > cameras are worth keeping. The balance can be donated to a charity shop.
> > 
> > For me, one camera is quite enough.
> > 
> > My tongue is stuck to a cheek now!
> > 
> > Alan C
> > 
> > On 07-Apr-22 05:30 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> >> I still have my Olympus E-M1 (the original version in this line, which I 
> >> bought in 2013) ??? and its great grandparent, the E-1 DSLR from 2003. 
> >> Although I've said to myself, "Heck, I hardly ever take these cameras out 
> >> anymore, I should sell the lot!" I just haven't found any sensible reason 
> >> to. The E-M1 in particular still works brilliantly for most of the things 
> >> I photograph and its extreme configurability/customizability is amazing.
> >> 
> >> My Leicas have all had the ability to save a user profile (actually a few 
> >> of them) both internally and in an externally saveable format, and return 
> >> the cameras to their defaults instantly as well as re-instantiate a 
> >> customized profile just as instantly. You can also transfer those settings 
> >> from one to another of the same body easily. I really wish Olympus had 
> >> done the same thing right from the start.
> >> 
> >> (Note: I think the E-M1 has a similar concept of user profiles at least, I 
> >> should probably re-read the manual???)
> >> 
> >> What I did to save time (since you *can* do a master reset of all 
> >> parameters on the Olympus, at least on both of mine) was to create a 
> >> checklist-cheatsheet for all 197 settings that marks out quickly and 
> >> simply all of my changes from the default configuration. So when I do 
> >> reset the E-M1 to its defaults, I just pull out the cheat sheet and walk 
> >> through all the settings that I changed as a standard setup to reconfigure 
> >> it to my basic configuration. Takes about ten minutes that way, and 
> >> without having to do any head scratching and trying to remember how I had 
> >> it set. I used the pages in the PDF form of the owner's manual that list 
> >> out ALL the menu options and defaults to construct the cheat sheet: just 
> >> copied them into a new PDF and edited that into the form I wanted.
> >> 
> >> Hope That Helps???
> >> 
> >> G
> >> 
> >>> On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:07 PM, John Francis  wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that
> >>> the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me
> >>> to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body.
> 

Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Larry Colen]

I am considering celebrating my new job by getting a u4/3 camera to carry on my 
bike, possibly an E-M5.  I was poking around last night looking at the current 
models and a couple of them are up in the K3iii price range, if not more 
expensive, if you buy them new.

I did see a couple of bodies on KEH in the $400-800 range, but that still 
leaves the question of glass.



> On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> You guys are crazy. You need a big frame on wheels on which you can mount 
> them all & then fire them simultaneously with some sort of automatic device. 
> Then you could spend the next week analysing all the images so you can rank 
> them in order of sharpness, colour rendition & whatever else you fancy. Then 
> you would be able to truly decide which one (or maybe 2) cameras are worth 
> keeping. The balance can be donated to a charity shop.
> 
> For me, one camera is quite enough.
> 
> My tongue is stuck to a cheek now!
> 
> Alan C
> 
> On 07-Apr-22 05:30 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>> I still have my Olympus E-M1 (the original version in this line, which I 
>> bought in 2013) … and its great grandparent, the E-1 DSLR from 2003. 
>> Although I've said to myself, "Heck, I hardly ever take these cameras out 
>> anymore, I should sell the lot!" I just haven't found any sensible reason 
>> to. The E-M1 in particular still works brilliantly for most of the things I 
>> photograph and its extreme configurability/customizability is amazing.
>> 
>> My Leicas have all had the ability to save a user profile (actually a few of 
>> them) both internally and in an externally saveable format, and return the 
>> cameras to their defaults instantly as well as re-instantiate a customized 
>> profile just as instantly. You can also transfer those settings from one to 
>> another of the same body easily. I really wish Olympus had done the same 
>> thing right from the start.
>> 
>> (Note: I think the E-M1 has a similar concept of user profiles at least, I 
>> should probably re-read the manual…)
>> 
>> What I did to save time (since you *can* do a master reset of all parameters 
>> on the Olympus, at least on both of mine) was to create a 
>> checklist-cheatsheet for all 197 settings that marks out quickly and simply 
>> all of my changes from the default configuration. So when I do reset the 
>> E-M1 to its defaults, I just pull out the cheat sheet and walk through all 
>> the settings that I changed as a standard setup to reconfigure it to my 
>> basic configuration. Takes about ten minutes that way, and without having to 
>> do any head scratching and trying to remember how I had it set. I used the 
>> pages in the PDF form of the owner's manual that list out ALL the menu 
>> options and defaults to construct the cheat sheet: just copied them into a 
>> new PDF and edited that into the form I wanted.
>> 
>> Hope That Helps™
>> 
>> G
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:07 PM, John Francis  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that
>>> the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me
>>> to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body.
>>> I was already finding that carrying a camera bag with my K5, the
>>> 60-250, and a selection of other items (generally one or other of
>>> the 16-50 or 50-135, and maybe the 50/1.4) was getting tiring by
>>> the end of the day, so I was looking for a way to lighten the load.
>>> I'd looked at the Olympus bodies, and was leaning towards either
>>> the M5 or possibly the M1, when Olympus decided to drop the price
>>> of the M1X by 40%, making it only a little more expensive than the
>>> M1 (and $300 less than Pentax were asking for the K3) for a body
>>> that was specifically tailored for what I was most interested in -
>>> Motorsports or wildlife photography.
>>> 
>>> So I jumped, and picked up the M1X and the 40-150/2.8 zoom (which
>>> gave me pretty much the same field of view as the 60-250, which had
>>> become my most-used lens).
>>> 
>>> I haven't done a great deal of photography in the five months that
>>> have elapsed since then, but it's all been with the M1X. I've just
>>> about become accustomed to the fact that almost all the controls
>>> work exactly the way the Pentax controls don't (I have to turn the
>>> dials in the opposite direction for many functions, the assignment
>>> of the two thumbwheels on the body to control shutter and aperture
>>> has the two functions interchanged, the lens release button is on
>>> the other side of the mount, etc., etc.) Fortunately, though, the
>>> M1X is amazingly reconfigurable - most of the vast number of buttons
>>> spread over the body can be re-assigned to different functions (and
>>> there's an easy way to swap the functions on those two thumbwheels),
>>> 
>>> One thing I have found out, though, is that it's a little too easy
>>> to get yourself stuck in a corner.  With the Pentax bodies all you
>>> have to do to reset the camera to a known state is 

Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Alan C]

You guys are crazy. You need a big frame on wheels on which you can 
mount them all & then fire them simultaneously with some sort of 
automatic device. Then you could spend the next week analysing all the 
images so you can rank them in order of sharpness, colour rendition & 
whatever else you fancy. Then you would be able to truly decide which 
one (or maybe 2) cameras are worth keeping. The balance can be donated 
to a charity shop.


For me, one camera is quite enough.

My tongue is stuck to a cheek now!

Alan C

On 07-Apr-22 05:30 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

I still have my Olympus E-M1 (the original version in this line, which I bought in 2013) 
… and its great grandparent, the E-1 DSLR from 2003. Although I've said to myself, 
"Heck, I hardly ever take these cameras out anymore, I should sell the lot!" I 
just haven't found any sensible reason to. The E-M1 in particular still works brilliantly 
for most of the things I photograph and its extreme configurability/customizability is 
amazing.

My Leicas have all had the ability to save a user profile (actually a few of 
them) both internally and in an externally saveable format, and return the 
cameras to their defaults instantly as well as re-instantiate a customized 
profile just as instantly. You can also transfer those settings from one to 
another of the same body easily. I really wish Olympus had done the same thing 
right from the start.

(Note: I think the E-M1 has a similar concept of user profiles at least, I 
should probably re-read the manual…)

What I did to save time (since you *can* do a master reset of all parameters on 
the Olympus, at least on both of mine) was to create a checklist-cheatsheet for 
all 197 settings that marks out quickly and simply all of my changes from the 
default configuration. So when I do reset the E-M1 to its defaults, I just pull 
out the cheat sheet and walk through all the settings that I changed as a 
standard setup to reconfigure it to my basic configuration. Takes about ten 
minutes that way, and without having to do any head scratching and trying to 
remember how I had it set. I used the pages in the PDF form of the owner's 
manual that list out ALL the menu options and defaults to construct the cheat 
sheet: just copied them into a new PDF and edited that into the form I wanted.

Hope That Helps™

G


On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:07 PM, John Francis  wrote:


As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that
the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me
to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body.
I was already finding that carrying a camera bag with my K5, the
60-250, and a selection of other items (generally one or other of
the 16-50 or 50-135, and maybe the 50/1.4) was getting tiring by
the end of the day, so I was looking for a way to lighten the load.
I'd looked at the Olympus bodies, and was leaning towards either
the M5 or possibly the M1, when Olympus decided to drop the price
of the M1X by 40%, making it only a little more expensive than the
M1 (and $300 less than Pentax were asking for the K3) for a body
that was specifically tailored for what I was most interested in -
Motorsports or wildlife photography.

So I jumped, and picked up the M1X and the 40-150/2.8 zoom (which
gave me pretty much the same field of view as the 60-250, which had
become my most-used lens).

I haven't done a great deal of photography in the five months that
have elapsed since then, but it's all been with the M1X. I've just
about become accustomed to the fact that almost all the controls
work exactly the way the Pentax controls don't (I have to turn the
dials in the opposite direction for many functions, the assignment
of the two thumbwheels on the body to control shutter and aperture
has the two functions interchanged, the lens release button is on
the other side of the mount, etc., etc.) Fortunately, though, the
M1X is amazingly reconfigurable - most of the vast number of buttons
spread over the body can be re-assigned to different functions (and
there's an easy way to swap the functions on those two thumbwheels),

One thing I have found out, though, is that it's a little too easy
to get yourself stuck in a corner.  With the Pentax bodies all you
have to do to reset the camera to a known state is to turn it off
and on again.  The M1X, though, remembers the state it was it when
you turned it off, and goes back to that state when you turn it on
again (although there's probably a way to change that behaviour, too).

Last weekend I decided I was going to stick with the lighter system.
I knew I wanted something wider than 40mm, but I wasn't sure whether
to go for the 12-40/2.8 or the 12-100/4. I eventually decided to go
for the 12-100, and add a 2x TC to use with the 40-150 to give me a
two-lens system of 12-100/4 and 80-300/5.6 (roughly comparable to a
range of 17-425 on my K5 - giving up 1mm at the wide end, but gaining
a little more reach than the 350mm I got with the 60-250 & a 

Re: My journey down the slippery slope continues ...

[Paul Stenquist]

Sounds like a hood choice, Enjoy!

Paul

> On Apr 7, 2022, at 12:08 AM, John Francis  wrote:
> 
> 
> As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that
> the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me
> to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body.
> I was already finding that carrying a camera bag with my K5, the
> 60-250, and a selection of other items (generally one or other of
> the 16-50 or 50-135, and maybe the 50/1.4) was getting tiring by
> the end of the day, so I was looking for a way to lighten the load.
> I'd looked at the Olympus bodies, and was leaning towards either
> the M5 or possibly the M1, when Olympus decided to drop the price
> of the M1X by 40%, making it only a little more expensive than the
> M1 (and $300 less than Pentax were asking for the K3) for a body
> that was specifically tailored for what I was most interested in -
> Motorsports or wildlife photography.
> 
> So I jumped, and picked up the M1X and the 40-150/2.8 zoom (which
> gave me pretty much the same field of view as the 60-250, which had
> become my most-used lens).
> 
> I haven't done a great deal of photography in the five months that
> have elapsed since then, but it's all been with the M1X. I've just
> about become accustomed to the fact that almost all the controls
> work exactly the way the Pentax controls don't (I have to turn the
> dials in the opposite direction for many functions, the assignment
> of the two thumbwheels on the body to control shutter and aperture
> has the two functions interchanged, the lens release button is on
> the other side of the mount, etc., etc.) Fortunately, though, the
> M1X is amazingly reconfigurable - most of the vast number of buttons
> spread over the body can be re-assigned to different functions (and
> there's an easy way to swap the functions on those two thumbwheels),
> 
> One thing I have found out, though, is that it's a little too easy
> to get yourself stuck in a corner.  With the Pentax bodies all you
> have to do to reset the camera to a known state is to turn it off
> and on again.  The M1X, though, remembers the state it was it when
> you turned it off, and goes back to that state when you turn it on
> again (although there's probably a way to change that behaviour, too).
> 
> Last weekend I decided I was going to stick with the lighter system.
> I knew I wanted something wider than 40mm, but I wasn't sure whether
> to go for the 12-40/2.8 or the 12-100/4. I eventually decided to go
> for the 12-100, and add a 2x TC to use with the 40-150 to give me a
> two-lens system of 12-100/4 and 80-300/5.6 (roughly comparable to a
> range of 17-425 on my K5 - giving up 1mm at the wide end, but gaining
> a little more reach than the 350mm I got with the 60-250 & a 1.4x TC).
> 
> 
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