Camera secrets

Fisheye lenses are very special lenses, which are suitable for taken 360° panoramas for example. However as they have a very large distortion and field of view those lenses are not suitable for many other applications. With software such distortion can be corrected. The OM-D E-M1 series has this correction already built-in to the camera firmware. The advantage is that you can already see the effect before you take the image, which helps you to compose your image. This technology makes the 8mm F1.8 a very wide angle lens which is unique in the market.

As the adjustment spindle could be quite long in lenses with long focal length, focusing speed is slower than with shorter focal length lenses. Therefore …

The preset picture modes can be adjusted by you. In this short tip I will show you how.

In opposite to cellphones, cameras have to rely on the GPS signal for localization. The connection to satellites can take longer and therefore it could …

OM-D cameras do have a predefined self-timer of 2 or 12 sec. In most cases, this is more than enough, but in some situations, you …