{"id":6517,"date":"2014-09-17T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2014-09-17T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:24:16","slug":"olympus-om-d-e-m1-gains-a-few-new-capabilities-in-a-firmware-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"Olympus OM-D E-M1 gains a few new capabilities in a firmware update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympusamerica.com\/cpg_section\/cpg_downloads_updater_info.asp?utm_campaign=olympusStore&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_source=olympusamerica.com&amp;utm_content=oima_camera_updater\" target=\"_blank\">Firmware update v2.0<\/a> for the Olympus OM-D E-M1 is said to give the following:<\/p>\n<h2>8 new functions:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tethered Shooting<\/strong> for studio photography via the new <a href=\"http:\/\/click.email.olympusamerica.com\/?qs=dc29977b414991abe6584254362f92826b3aaf3ab62ebb681b317933f250c12d\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Olympus Capture Software<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Live Composite mode<\/strong> for star-trail photography as with the E-M10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keystone Compensation<\/strong> (digital shift) to correct vertical distortion<\/li>\n<li><strong>2 New Art Filters:<\/strong> Vintage and Partial Color<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aperture Lock function<\/strong> has been added to Aperture Preview<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panning Shot shooting mode<\/strong> has been added to SCN mode<\/li>\n<li><strong>Old Film effect<\/strong> has been added to movie effect<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Photo Story mode features:<\/strong> Zoom In\/Out and Layout framing options. Save (complete partway through), Temporary Save, and Resume functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>16 operability improvements:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>EVF image display time lag reduced to 16 milliseconds (when frame rate setting is set to high speed)<\/li>\n<li>Multiple simultaneous settings now available in Live Guide<\/li>\n<li>Exposure compensation (\u00b13 EV) is now available in HDR 1\/HDR2 shooting<\/li>\n<li>A function has been added to cancel Color Creator and return to the original Picture Mode by pressing the MENU button when using Color Creator function.<\/li>\n<li>Movie Tele-converter can now be used simultaneously when Art Filter is set to Picture Mode.<\/li>\n<li>AF function for each frame was added to Custom Self Timer. In Drive Mode&#8217;s Custom Self Timer settings, you can now press the INFO button to change settings.<\/li>\n<li>MF Assist is now supported in magnified frame position.<\/li>\n<li>3x has been added to high resolution magnified Live View.<\/li>\n<li>The Peaking display frame rate has been improved.<\/li>\n<li>Electronic zoom speed setting function was added. An icon appears on the LCD monitor when using an Olympus electronic zoom lens.<\/li>\n<li>When the arrow pad is set to Direct function, the Underwater\/Underwater macro functions can be used with the left and down button on the arrow pad.<\/li>\n<li>Double tap is now supported in touch operations on the Super Control Panel.<\/li>\n<li>The level gauge and histogram can now be displayed during magnified frame display. The Touch Off icon was added to magnified frame display.<\/li>\n<li>A function was added so that shooting information recorded in HDR1\/HDR2 can be viewed in the playback screen.<\/li>\n<li>Information on composited number of shots for images recorded with Live Composite was added (Can be checked in Olympus Viewer3).<\/li>\n<li>When the BKT button is held down, the BKT menu now appears.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Much has been rumoured of the firmware update adding 4K video capability but this did not eventuate in this update &#8211; perhaps in a subsequent one if we are lucky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firmware update v2.0 for the Olympus OM-D E-M1 is said to give the following: 8 new functions: Tethered Shooting for studio photography via the new Olympus Capture Software. Live Composite mode for star-trail photography as with the E-M10 Keystone Compensation (digital shift) to correct vertical distortion 2 New Art Filters: Vintage and Partial Color Aperture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[287,74,18,241,14],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-e-m1","tag-firmware","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}