Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Details
About the Author Darrell Young (aka Digital Darrell) is a full-time author and professional photographer in the East Tennessee, USA area. He is a member of Professional Photographers of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, and Nikon Professional Services--and adheres to the ethical guidelines of those fine organizations. Darrell has been photographing people, events, and places professionally for over 30 years, with a special interest in natural history. His mother gave him a Brownie Hawkeye camera in 1968 at the young age of 10 years and awakened a lifelong interest in capturing slices of time. Living in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains--near Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway--has given him a real concern for the natural environment and a deep interest in nature photography. You'll often find Darrell standing behind a tripod in the beautiful mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Since about 2000 Darrell has been an active blogger and article writer on photographic subjects. In 2008 his first photography book was published and, since then, he has authored over a dozen books on the technical side of photography, with a special interest in helping new photographers fully understand their complex cameras so they can use them for more effective and enjoyable photography. Read more
Reviews
This book is all you need to fully learn how this remarkable camera actually works. Forget the online user's manual - it is essentially worthless. You will not learn how this camera really works, though you should be able to take decent pictures with it right out of the box. The online manual, which you can download, gives just rudimentary information. The camera's menu system is so comprehensive that it would take a lot of trial-and-error to figure it out on your own, as the author must have done. A very time-consuming process to say the least. I went through this book page by page with the camera in hand. After some time I realized that I don't have to read all of it since much of the information is repeated in other sections. This is good. The book was not meant to be read for entertainment - it is a reference manual. Therefore, it is logical to expect repetition of certain steps, since so many menu items are dependent on settings in other menu items. I agree with another reviewer that some of the print and captions are very small - but needing a magnifying glass is a bit overstated. Reading glasses do help. If everything were to be legible without any visual aids, this book would have to be massive. I did not get any sore muscles holding the book and I don't think it will fall apart due to a cheap glued binding as someone stated. It is as well constructed as any paperback book I have ever bought. I believe this book does exactly what I was hoping for and I was not expecting anything more. In fact, I got more out of it than I expected. I highly recommend this to anyone who owns this camera, even if they are already familiar with the basic concept of the Olympus menu system, which I am since I have already owned an E-520 and an E-5 DSLR for several years.
