turns out the em5 mii does not have a wysiwyg function... this is taking some getting used to... however, i'm really liking pretty much everything else about the thing so far...
That's a bummer - it's a highly desirable feature - I thought all Olympii had it! You've overcome it majestically though... this is is a superb long-exposure image.
@vignouse thank you... and yes, a bummer indeed... it never occurred to me to even inquire about that... but i can't find anything in the manual, and when i went online there was a discussion thread on this at dpreview where someone was asking about it and got a rather nasty reply along the lines of: no - and no one should really want one... i think it shows you what the camera thinks the correct exposure should be, rather than the one the settings will actually take... you can tell by the ev blinker how far off you are... since i tend to like to go darker than what is typically considered correct, i guage the ev, and then have to test a bit... which is ok for still objects but will be a bit trickier for something like my pedal shot taken last week with the sony... however, even my sony shot was a bit of trial and error to get the "right" (;p) settings... and then some patience waiting for someone to go walk or pedal thru the scene... so i don't expect this to slow me down much :)
my canon's live view is wysiwyg, but the viewfinder view is of course, not... and i've managed fine, so i don't expect this to be a huge issue with the em5...
@northy I've just checked the specs on the Olympus site and it says that Live Bulb/Live Time IS implemented on your camera and so is Focus Bracketing... how cool is that!
@vignouse yes - i've been reading about the live time thing (not the same in my mind as wysiwyg) and i'm hoping to find an opportunity to play with it this week... :)
as for focus bracketing... it's not something i've ever been interested in, BUT with the one night stand challenge of forced perspective today, it strikes me that perhaps focus bracketing might be worth looking into :)
@northy Probably my misinterpretation - I assumed by wysiwyg that you were referring to the facility to see a long exposure building in real time il live view.
Did you keep your Nex7 I wonder? I confess that you've now got me interested in the Olympus system!
wysiwyg = what you see is what you get... on my sony, and when using live view on the canon, what you see on the screen is the image as it will be exposed using the settings... so if i want to under or over expose by a lot, i will be able to preview the result on the screen... on the olympus, the evf and the live view screen show me the image as it would be if i let the camera determine the settings... so if i've got it set to waaaaaaay under expose, i won't know what the effect will be until i take the picture... so far it really hasn't caused me any problems - just a bit more trial and error than i've been used to, and it's forcing me to learn more about settings and exposure which is probably a good thing... for example, if i have the camera set to overexpose, it will tell me how much in terms of a + ev... so i'm starting to get a sense of what these numbers translate into... which, like i said, is a good thing :)
The Olympus shooting in "M" won't show the image per the settings you dial in? Or in any programmed mode with Exposure compensation dialed in? Now that is weird, I wonder how they could possibly do that? I don't know of any other mirrorless (or Live View for a DSLR) that has that limitation.
@frankhymus so it seems... that said, i think it actually shows the image per the settings within +/- 3 ev... but i have a tendency to want to go more extreme... it hasn't really ended up being much of an issue - but yeah... who would've thought they would build the camera like this?
September 3rd, 2016
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my canon's live view is wysiwyg, but the viewfinder view is of course, not... and i've managed fine, so i don't expect this to be a huge issue with the em5...
as for focus bracketing... it's not something i've ever been interested in, BUT with the one night stand challenge of forced perspective today, it strikes me that perhaps focus bracketing might be worth looking into :)
Did you keep your Nex7 I wonder? I confess that you've now got me interested in the Olympus system!
thanks :)
wysiwyg = what you see is what you get... on my sony, and when using live view on the canon, what you see on the screen is the image as it will be exposed using the settings... so if i want to under or over expose by a lot, i will be able to preview the result on the screen... on the olympus, the evf and the live view screen show me the image as it would be if i let the camera determine the settings... so if i've got it set to waaaaaaay under expose, i won't know what the effect will be until i take the picture... so far it really hasn't caused me any problems - just a bit more trial and error than i've been used to, and it's forcing me to learn more about settings and exposure which is probably a good thing... for example, if i have the camera set to overexpose, it will tell me how much in terms of a + ev... so i'm starting to get a sense of what these numbers translate into... which, like i said, is a good thing :)
The Olympus shooting in "M" won't show the image per the settings you dial in? Or in any programmed mode with Exposure compensation dialed in? Now that is weird, I wonder how they could possibly do that? I don't know of any other mirrorless (or Live View for a DSLR) that has that limitation.