Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Mastering the Olympus OM-D E-M1 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, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Cherohala Skyway--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 about two 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
I purchased my OM-D E-M1 Mark II in November, 2017. Being new to mirrorless, being my first Olympus and discovering how complicated the EM-1 MII is I checked to see if Darrell Young had written an instruction book for it. I was familiar with his books having purchased several of his Nikon Camera books in the past 15 years before I sold all Nikon gear and switched entirely to the OM-D E-M1 Mark II. His books have always been the most thorough and easiest to understand of any I’ve found. At that time he had not completed the Em1 Mark II book.While waiting for Darrell’s book I looked for other sources. I found many. Some good to very good but incomplete or unclear in their instructions. Some were not so good or just plain wrong in the information they gave. Using the better ones and by my own trial and error I gradually learned more about using this camera. I got to the point where I could set it up and take decent photos but sometimes got lost in the menu system and had to do a complete reset of the camera to where it was when it came out of the factory. A couple of times I even confused the camera enough to cause it to freeze up. Actually, not a freeze-up. I just didn’t know how to get from where I was to where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. (Reset again!)Even with all my looking I came up with questions I could not find answers for. First thing I did after finally receiving Darrell’s book was look for those answers and I found them. Darrell’s book is 600 pages. It has to be that long to be complete. The camera is a computer and Like a computer system there is usually more than one way to do what you are wanting to do. Remember that just because the camera will do it and the book tells you how it doesn’t necessarily mean you will want to be able to do it on your camera. You will eventually get to where you have the camera set up the way you want it. Darrell’s book makes that much easier.I also recommend the Kindle version of this book. It can be saved to your cell phone and when in the field if a question comes up you can find an answer. The Kindle version of the book can also be saved to your desktop computer using the Kindle app. I would suggest you also read the review by Mr. Conrad J. Obregon.I’ve found that low ratings of books about this camera often come from those who don’t have the experience needed to operate a camera as complicated as this one.
