As a recent buyer for the EM-1 but having owned the E-1 through E-5 and a
smattering of the E-xxx models I can see a clear evolution of the menu design
through each iteration. The EM-1 is to me a clear improvement on the E-5 both
visually and with better coupling of actions attached to the control dials. In
particular the way that the UI has "scales" at the top and bottom of the
display attached to the respective dials. That just clicked for me way better
than it ever did on the E-5.
The EM-1 also has some customization on the arrow keypad though not as well
executed as on the E-xxx series which behaved similarly to how Moose describes
on his current Panny body. A bonus to switching that feature on is it stops the
"wandering" focus points issue.
I won't disagree that the menu is huge and ponderous but I guess 90% is set and
forget. This has been my experience of using the Olympus menus since the E-1.
Dan S
On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:11 PM, "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You obviously were spoiled by your years with the E-1. I felt the same
>> way. These days, I try to do any necessary menu adjustments before
>> starting a shoot. :-)
>
> Yes, you are correct. The E-1's menu system was the start of horrid,
> and it only went downhill from there. Fortunately, once configured,
> the camera really was pretty good at letting you shoot without needing
> to dumpster dive the menus. My DMC-L1 is better in some regards, but
> worse in others. It's like for 90% of what you need to do, the control
> interface is better than most anything else out there, but for the 10%
> that you have to go diving for, you scratch your head asking yourself
> "why?"
>
> An example of this is that it takes a minimum of seven button presses
> to protect a single image.
>
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