What a camera!

In yet another tumultuous year, the OM-1 popped onto the scene, surprising and delighting us – and all the while challenging us to find subjects to shoot as we win our way forward through a strange milieu of truth and fiction.

Now what?

I mean, we’re photographers, right? We don’t pack our tents and go home when times are tough. Well, if you’ve shot weddings, ya can’t! Right? That’s the whole scene right there.

And I know from images readers’ send that people have used this “time” to stretch their thinking. To look up, sideways, through, across; and find more to imagine, and more life to capture – and more to step out for.

Because that’s what we do.

.                         Lightpainting with the OM-1. Compx374@1/2 sec = 3 minutes of careful activity with various purpose made tools.

As photographers, we grab snaps – to remember things by; “forensic” images – to show what things were like; and art images – to create mood, feeling, emotion… to evoke a response from those who view. As videographers, we step out, evolving a “story” to draw viewers to another place.

While life has been locked-down, I’ve been locked up, spending months digging through everything the OM-1 does, to create a book, with the aim of demystifying all you can do with it.  I delve into the camera’s features, providing what I hope are clear explanations of what everything is, what it’s for, and how to use it – even the hard stuff. There’s hundreds of tips and tweaks to help you get up to full speed with it and maximize your enjoyment, comfort, and skill with the camera – so that when you’re in the mud shooting, everything feels normal, and you know where to look for THAT feature you NEED right now to make the shot work.

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What’s in a Book?

Ever wondered what goes into the making of a book like this?

A lot of time and patience. Careful checking, testing etc.

I’ve had the camera since before release – working with it solidly since then.

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Work Station. The whole desk surface raises for sit/stand

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I  buy all necessary equipment. Gone are the days companies lend cameras for the time this takes.

This year, and this camera have been particularly hard. Like many, I was ill at the beginning of the year. And that inactivity led to developing a DVT. Also, this camera takes more work than most. Obviously, many changes since the E-M1 series. Not helped by not being able to capture menu screens and demo screens to HDMI. Each screen had to be shot with another camera. (I have a purpose-built rig for that.)

Imagine what it takes to capture the photo shoots you see within these pages. Lots of activity – across a wide diversity of photography.

Normally, I am quite active. You must pay attention to that kind of thing when you are at a desk for long periods. I walk the hills with my large German Shepherd.

I hope you enjoy this book. And, if you will, support me in some way through a referral, or some other way.

I wish you well in your photographic pursuits.

Best,

Tony