Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Camera Scene modes are for amateurs!
That’s OK by me. I’m a pro and I have always tried to think like an amateur by pushing boundaries, exploring, trying techniques and gear that others label as unbefitting a serious/real photographer.
And so I am beginning to delve into camera settings on my Olympus gear, that all authorities overlook and belittle. I am talking about the numerous Scene presets that are on every one of my camera bodies. I too have been guilty of just spinning past the Auto and SCN words on the dial on the top of my cameras - to the PASM side of the dial.
I have to be honest, the only reason that I finally looked to see what that Scene setting contained, was a mention in a YouTube video I was watching today - about a few of the settings - in particular one that would take a sequence of nighttime images at 12,800 ISO and combine them together. The video was referring to the newer (than I have) E-M10 II, and so I was sure that my older first generation model didn’t have it. SO I JUST HAD TO CHECK, AND SURE ENOUGH.
Well as life would have it, I was laying down in a very dark room. I turned the dial to SCN > selected Hand-held Starlight > held the shutter on my E-M10 I with 14-42 kit lens, and 8 shots fired in rapid sequence. The settings being used were clear. 12,800 ISO at 1/10’th second exposure. I was amazing to look at the screen and find a recognizable image
That’s OK by me. I’m a pro and I have always tried to think like an amateur by pushing boundaries, exploring, trying techniques and gear that others label as unbefitting a serious/real photographer.
And so I am beginning to delve into camera settings on my Olympus gear, that all authorities overlook and belittle. I am talking about the numerous Scene presets that are on every one of my camera bodies. I too have been guilty of just spinning past the Auto and SCN words on the dial on the top of my cameras - to the PASM side of the dial.
I have to be honest, the only reason that I finally looked to see what that Scene setting contained, was a mention in a YouTube video I was watching today - about a few of the settings - in particular one that would take a sequence of nighttime images at 12,800 ISO and combine them together. The video was referring to the newer (than I have) E-M10 II, and so I was sure that my older first generation model didn’t have it. SO I JUST HAD TO CHECK, AND SURE ENOUGH.
Well as life would have it, I was laying down in a very dark room. I turned the dial to SCN > selected Hand-held Starlight > held the shutter on my E-M10 I with 14-42 kit lens, and 8 shots fired in rapid sequence. The settings being used were clear. 12,800 ISO at 1/10’th second exposure. I was amazing to look at the screen and find a recognizable image
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