Four Thirds User

No.3: Preview the effects of the motion in your scene according to the shutter speed selected.

You are probably aware of a facility that many cameras, that have any serious pretension, offer the user, namely: depth of field preview. You press a button, the lens aperture closes up and you can see how the distance of the sharply focused area is affected. The smaller the aperture, the greater the distance is covered in focus, or the depth of field.

Applying some common...

UPDATE: I missed out the fact that the Olympus E-620 and E-P1 models have a new facility to edit the first two characters of the filename for personal customisation (just the second character when shooting in Adobe RGB space).

No.2: Today we look at how Olympus and Panasonic Lumix formulate their image file names and folders on the memory card.

Olympus:

Inside the standard DCIM (Digital Camera IMages) folder, you may find one or more sub-folders which...

No.1: Auto Gradation mode on Olympus E-System models can be useful but use with care, especially if you are shooting RAW.

Welcome to the first in a new daily series of concise hints and tips for Olympus and Panasonic Four Thirds (and Micro Four Thirds) camera users!

Today, I'm looking at the Auto Gradation picture mode that Olympus E-System cameras of recent years have featured. You can see the gradation mode on the camera's LCD screen settings matrix, denoted by an...