Rant on.
I was thinking about selling my Olympus EM1 II since I am mainly using the Fuji cameras right now. Today I was going to check the shutter count and take some pictures. Olympus has a cryptic but clear spelled out series of button pushes needed to get to the hidden menus and the shutter count. It’s also been the same cryptic series since the earliest PEN. So I try it today and nothing. I get to the intermediate page where it gives you the model of the camera but the last part that leads to the hidden menus just doesn’t do anything. The last sequence after the model page is Up, Down, Left, Right, Shutter, Up. I have been doing this all day. I reset the camera. The battery is fully charged. All the needed buttons work in their normal roles. I can do figure eights with the focus point using the arrow keys. I just can’t get the hidden menus appear with the elusive shutter count. It’s probably around 2500 or so but I can’t prove it. I also can’t put it up for sale since listing the shutter count is a sine qua non for sales of Olympus because you can in principle get to it. I just kinda stuck here.
By the way,the camera works fine. I tried it out because I hadn’t used it in a while and everything is great for picture taking. All I can think to do tomorrow is to update the FW to 3.1 from 3.0 because I’m out of ideas. Why Olympus can’t just list this in their already voluminous menus is beyond my simple wit.
Rant off.
Thanks for reading.
I was thinking about selling my Olympus EM1 II since I am mainly using the Fuji cameras right now. Today I was going to check the shutter count and take some pictures. Olympus has a cryptic but clear spelled out series of button pushes needed to get to the hidden menus and the shutter count. It’s also been the same cryptic series since the earliest PEN. So I try it today and nothing. I get to the intermediate page where it gives you the model of the camera but the last part that leads to the hidden menus just doesn’t do anything. The last sequence after the model page is Up, Down, Left, Right, Shutter, Up. I have been doing this all day. I reset the camera. The battery is fully charged. All the needed buttons work in their normal roles. I can do figure eights with the focus point using the arrow keys. I just can’t get the hidden menus appear with the elusive shutter count. It’s probably around 2500 or so but I can’t prove it. I also can’t put it up for sale since listing the shutter count is a sine qua non for sales of Olympus because you can in principle get to it. I just kinda stuck here.
By the way,the camera works fine. I tried it out because I hadn’t used it in a while and everything is great for picture taking. All I can think to do tomorrow is to update the FW to 3.1 from 3.0 because I’m out of ideas. Why Olympus can’t just list this in their already voluminous menus is beyond my simple wit.
Rant off.
Thanks for reading.