Setting up your camera, new or old, the way you want is important. It is a lot easier to photograph when you have set the buttons and dials the way you prefer. Also, there are some other things like beeping sounds, image quality that you might want to check.
My video might help you!
In the video below I go through my settings what I call best settings.
If you have some other Olympus cameras then use this link to see if I have the best settings video about your camera.
Great deal on my One on One sessions.
There is also a great deal included in the video. It includes a discount code for a one on one session with me. Check out my webstore and see if that is something for you. All my one on one session is tailored for your needs.
I had a chance to test a very rare lens. An Olympus super-telephoto lens from the early 80s. The lens is Zuiko Auto-T 180mm f2 ED-IF. Back then the OM-system bodies that Olympus had were OM-3 and OM-4. Olympus had a very nice line up of Zuiko lenses for those cameras and other OM-system bodies. The one line-up they did not have, was pro-grade fast telephoto lenses.
Olympus made several fast telephoto lenses. One of them was the 180mm f2 lens that I had the chance to test. Other lenses were 100mm f2.0, 250mm f2.0 and a 350mm f2.8. This way Olympus was able to offer fast telephoto lenses to pros. All these lenses are very rare and cost quite a lot of money.
You can still find them on eBay. The prices are from several thousand all the way up to 10K. That is a lot of money for a lens. Some of them were sold in Japan. That will add up to costs.
Of course, the lenses are full manual. The lens has an aperture ring and it is manual focus. I tried with two cameras. One of them was my Olympus M-1. The first SLR from Olympus. Unfortunately, the shutter was not very consistent and the images did no come out the way I wanted.
I was able to use it also with the E-M1 MKIII. I had an adapter from Novoflex. With that, it worked very well. The focusing was quite easy, thanks to focus peaking and magnify features that help a lot. I am not very experienced using manual focus for moving subjects so I concentrated on more easy subjects.
Of course, I needed to try it for bird photography. That is the most likely genre that this lens would be used for.
![Olympus OM-D E-M10 MK IV – [Best photography SETTINGS]](https://peterforsgard.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screenshot2020-09-18at8.37.44.png)
