Olympus OM-D M1X Setup Guide For Bird Photography

How to setup the Olympus M1X for bird photography. Also included is a way to get better control of exposure, so you can get better bird images.

Peter Fosgard's video on setting up the highlights and shadow alerts pre shot.

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[garybrown]

I spent 3 days look for a way to enable pro capture low then remember something someone said
Continues autofocus only works with Olympus lenses
Raw tip of the year thanks Peter

[MJOffizieller]

Dear Tim, many thanks for sharing, will apply some of your settings and see how it goes. Again, thanks for this great tutorial.

[AllenMaestas]

This is excellent, especially for someone like me who just switched over to Olympus. Thank you!

[fredbuncke]

This is a excellent video.I have been using Peter Fosgard for along time He gives credit to original post in his video, the set up is sensational.CAF with or without tracking is very poor . Best to just forget it.The dot sight is very good but you must set it up correctly and ensure the dials don't move.Also CF sensitivity should be set to -2.

[Landscape_Tog]

Thanks for this video Tim, its very helpful and informative. I've just switched from Canon so now learning the menu of the E-M1X.

[jonathanashton]

Hi Tim, I enjoyed watching the video and the settings you recommend are very much the same as the ones I have already set. I too have switched from Canon to Olympus, some folk thought I had gone stark raving mad but when they have seen the results and seen how comparatively easy it is to walk around with Olympus gear they are beginning to reconsider, two of my less sceptical friends have also switched from Canon to Olympus. Now coming back to the video I am not too sure about CAF sensitivity, I haven't done much BIF photography yet with this gear but I see differing views on going + and -, so far I have left mine of neutral and it has been ok. The first part of your video I guess reflects most of your BIF settings, I an a little surprised you have not saved them to one of the "C" settings. I have set BIF to C1 and Stacking to C5 and Hi Res to C4.
Just as an aside (I have not discovered if you enjoy macro photography) the 300mm & 1.4TC make for a very portable and hand holdable rig for dragonflies and butterflies, the 40-150mm &1.4TC equally. The dinky little 60mm macro lens is just incredible. I recently pointed the 300& 1.4 at a small butterfly when on a photographic weekend, the people using full frame gear just could not believe it - hand holding 840mm at 1/60 sec - it's impossible...no it isn't!!

[just]

Great video thanks Tim. I made a few adjustments on my EM1 Mk2 as well as most setings are the same after the recent firmware upgrade. cheers!

[denisglennonsafaris]

Tim
Just found your video on bird photography settings for the EM1X.
Extremely helpful
Thank you.
Denis

[finnlarsen]

Great video, I also thinking bying Olympus, I am using Fuji Xt-3 for Landscape ( great camera ) In 2020 Olympus will release new telezoom with inbuilt teleconverter 150 to 400mm f4, 5. Hope for more videos about your new Olympus.

[AlexanderAt]

Good video. Very informative! Thank you!

[catherinetremerryn]

HI Tim, great tutorial. Please can you help with bird in flight focus points? My focus always seems out of sync - either behind or infront of the flying bird - particularly when its a white bird. Many thanks for all your help.

[hanzkilian]

Hi Tim, can you tell me re: the e-m1x. When you go to the IBIS settings and press info, you can then enter the lens details for stabilization. eg 400mm or 150mm. What I wish to know is, when you change Olympus lenses on the 1X do you have to each time enter the lens details so as to get correct stabilization, or does the camera recognize the attached lens and make the needed corrections automatically. Please advise. - Thank you

[stephensinger]

Tim great video. I recently changed from Canon gear after 50 years to Olympus. Have you totally changed from Canon to Olympus? I have the OMD E1 MII and have set it up very much like you have and used Peter's highlight and Shadow advice as well. Looking forward to more of your videos using the Oly.

[kuau]

Jeff I just stumbled onto your channel very informative indeed. Going to be renting the E-M1X yet I’m going to be shooting alpine skiing with the subject moving towards me all the time. Curious why don’t you use back button focusing. I have shot a lot with the Sony A9 and I found using back button focusing a must because at least for me human nature at work I found my self half pressing the shutter release and the releasing it which then causes the camera to stop focusing and it would have to reacquire focusing every time I let up on the shutter release. I assume the same thing happens on the EM1X

[colingift]

Thanks for your informative videos, I have become a dedicated follower... coming from the Nikon D500 and Tamron 150 - 600 g2. I now use the e-m1 Mark II with the most recent firmware upgrade + the 40-150 pro & 1.4 tele - 12-100 pro AND the Pana-leica 100-400 when I need more reach... I am wondering if the new 2x teleconverter would be worth it on the 40-150 as it would give me a 600 f:5.6 and the 100-400 is f:5.6 at the 600mm equivalent..Hmmm.
I tend to leave the 40 - 150 home and bring the 12 - 100 & the Panasonic 100-400 with me when I'm out and about. Even thinking of just selling the Olympus pro as it has become sort of redundant. Have you or anybody else had a chance to use the Panasonic lens? I find it to be very sharp up to 350mm or so and good @ 400...
I just recommended the dot sight finder to the woman who is having problems finding birds through her viewfinder using a long lens..
Cheers

[richerich]

Tim I find this very interesting, when in picture mode on my E-M1X the first one is I-enhance, no vivid, then natural, which is what I have mine set on, then no muted, portrait, monochrome and custom, I go from natural to underwater. Like I said interesting.

[craigb]

Tim, you mentioned turning on peaking for AF, but as far as I can work out the peaking only works for MF. Can you please clarify if you managed it for AF as I would love it

[finnlarsen]

Tim, have you tried to print example A2 or bigger copy from the micro four third sensor?

[charliemans]

Can you please make a tutorial on how to do custom AF points on the E-M1X for wild life please? Thanks

[gerdpenno]

Great video,
Do you use back button focus ? There are numerous videos, but haven't come across any that show the set up for the E-M 1x and E-M 1.2. I am trying to use C-1 on both cameras for BBF, and M, S and A for landscape and other types of photography