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17. Olympus Lenses
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Class Introduction
05:29 2Camera Overview
10:21 3Photo Basics
04:10 4Top Deck: Mode Dial
16:27 5Mode Dial: Exposure Control in P Mode
06:29 6Mode Dial: Manual Exposure
08:46 7Top Deck: Shooting Modes
22:35 8Top Deck: HDR & AF Mode
05:58Top Deck: Metering and Flashes
05:57 10Backside: Viewfinder Display
07:15 11Backside: ISO Controls & White Balance
04:37 12Backside: Focus Area and Controls
06:07 13Backside: Super Menu
20:50 14Backside: Playback Menu
06:15 15Left & Right Side of OM-D EM 1 Mark II
04:42 16Bottom & Front of OM-D EM 1 Mark II
07:50 17Olympus Lenses
05:05 18Camera Menu Settings Map
03:03 19Shooting Menu 1
08:30 20Shooting Menu 2
20:18 21Video Menu
17:41 22Playback Menu
09:04 23Custom Menu A & B
22:01 24Custom Menu C1 & C2
11:24 25Custom Menu D1-D4
19:31 26Custom Menu E1-E3 & F
13:35 27Custom Menu G
04:11 28Custom Menu H1-H2
07:20 29Custom Menu I
05:04 30Custom Menu J1-J2
05:45 31Setup Menu
05:32 32Camera Operation
12:52Lesson Info
Olympus Lenses
We've been talking about the front of the camera and a little bit about lenses. So let's talk about the lenses for a moment or two. So this is the 12-40, it's one of the more popular lenses because it's a good general range, nice fast aperture, and well built good optical lens. With any of the zoom lenses you're gonna have a zoom ring, and most of the lenses will have a focusing ring, there might be an exception out there. So, as I said, a lot of their Pro lenses, and you'll see that says Pro down there in the bottom right hand side, they'll often have a Lens Function button. They'll all have an Alignment mark, some of them will have Distance Scales but not all of the lenses, in fact, most of them do not. The hood mount on there is for mounting up the specific hood for that lens, now, every lens has its own designated hood. It's, of course, highly recommended that you use that as much as possible, and make sure that you have the correct one for the correct lens. Most lenses you'll be a...
ble to hook up filters too, there will be a specific size filter that you'll need to get, they're not all 62 but this one is 62. If you don't like the way their focusing ring works. If you come from Nikon, if you come from Canon, the lenses focus in a different direction, as far as which direction you turn for infinity. So if you wanna customize the direction that the focus ring turns, yes, you can do that within the very depth deep field of auto focus customization that we are gonna be getting into, in an upcoming section. Alright, let's just look at a few of the lenses that I think are really good, that I think are notable lenses. The 12-40, as I say, is one of the most popular lenses, their new 12-100, is when they seem to have been subtlety pushing quite hard, it's an f/4 lens, which I like and has a very nice range, it has their Dual Image Stabilization compatibility, so that's when you're gonna get six and half stops of image stabilization, combining the stabilization of the lens and the stabilization built already into the camera. The other kind of main Pro lenses that you will see being used out there, the 7-14 ultra wide angle lens, it's so wide it does not accept standard screw and filters, so filtration is a little bit challenging on that, but fast aperture, good for after work, any sort of low light work, their 40-150 is an incredible telephoto lens, great range, fast 2.8 aperture, really good lens. Now you'll notice a number of letters like ED, and PRO, and each of these little letter designations in there has some sort of significance with Olympus, and this is just, kind of, a few of the more common letters that you're likely to see with any of the lenses. Now, a few of the other lenses that I wanna talk about are some of the other Prime lenses. They have an 8mm Fisheye, a normal superfast 1.2 25mm lens, and their new 300mm super telephoto lens, which it also has Dual Image Stabilization. These are some of the other really high quality lenses in their Pro style of lenses. But you don't have to stick just to their classification of Pro lenses, there's plenty of other very, very nice Sweet Primes as I like to call them. And so, the 12, 17 and 25, have reasonably fast apertures: 1.8 f/2. The 45, 1.8 is not a real fast lens, but you know what? It's a nice portrait lens, and it's really small and light weight. The 75 is a, I mean, I don't know if it's been out long enough to classify officially, but it is a legendary lens. It is a great super sharp optic, very good for portrait photography, if you have large working distance, so if you're working outside, that's a really good lens. But Panasonic also has compatible lenses and I really like a lot of the offerings from Panasonic. So they have their own fast normal lenses like the 12-35 and the 35-100. They also work with Leica, that have lenses that meet many of the Leica standards and they use a lot of their design ideas and techniques in their lenses. They're ultimately made by Panasonic but they have a lot of Leica influence in how they're made. So they have a number of very good options including a fairly compact 100-400, for all of you wild life shooters out there. I'm a big fan of the Panasonic Primes, they make some really nice fast lenses, the 25 1.4 I own, I'm really happy with. The 42.5 1.2 is kind of the ultimate portrait lens for the micro 4/3 system if you want that shallow depth of field, gives you that 85mm traditional focal length with a fast 1.2 aperture. And so those are just some of my favorite lenses and if you're gonna own this camera, my bet is that you're gonna own a couple of the lenses that I talked about on there, because these are the ones that most people are choosing.
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a Creativelive Student
This is exactly what I was looking for - I really feel like I'm not able to control my camera, rather than the camera controlling me! :) I really learned a great deal - some of it was a great review, some of it was crucial information that will (hopefully) make me a better photographer. Thanks for a great class, John!!
Spyro Zarifopoulos
Great and very informative class.... John has done a fabulous job explaining all the simple and intricate details of the very sophisticated EM1 II. Thank you !!!
John Epperson
This is a great course on learning about the OM-D E-M1 Mark II. I have watched it many times to get to were I know it by memory the best I can. I like to go over it as much as possible because there is a lot to learn. I do wish that John would do an updated version since now it is up to Firmware 3.1. It is like a whole new camera with the new settings.
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