It is certainly a good news for including Low ISO (100) with new firmware,
it helps for shooting with larger aperture under bright light but I think it
won't help for fill flash. On the other hand the flash sync upgrade to
1/320s do help a bit.
C.H.Ling - Just got a used E-P5 VF-4 17/1.8 kit set at half original new
price :-)
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
When looking through the E-M1 manual this morning I noticed that it has an
undefined "Low" ISO setting and also has two in-camera HDR modes.
Although the E-M5 manual says nothing about "Low" ISO I discovered that my
camera allows such a setting. I assume that this must have arrived with
one of the firmware upgrades to the camera but I don't recall it ever
having been mentioned. Since even the E-M1 manual says nothing about the
setting I had to assume it means 1/2 of the lowest normal setting as it
does on the Canon 5D. The 5D's lowest normal setting is ISO 100 and the
low setting takes it to 50. I assume that the E-M1 and E-M5 have an ISO
of 100 when set to "Low" and my meter readings verify that. Good news for
fill flash shooters competing with the sun for the ambient exposure.
Also, as I've noted before with respect to daylight fill flash my own E-M5
will sync at 1/320 vs the stated limit of 1/250. The E-M1 manual says it
will do 1/320 with the "built-in" flash but only 1/250 with an external
flash.
Chuck Norcutt
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