Olympus How To Use Spot Meter Hi/SH, Link it to the Focus Point, & Read the Histogram ep.260 

Glad it helped!

It is nice they kept the feature in the new digital versions. Some argue it's not necessary anymore but I like it.

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You are very welcome, Michael.

Thanks. I love the E-M5 Mk 2. Amazing camera even against today's stuff.

Thanks. I try.

Thanks, Plato!

The 2 persons who gave the thumbs down probably are following the tutorial with their smartphones which menu is not matching that of of the OMD cameras

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Thanks, Colin. I try.

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Thanks, Bob. Will do some more.

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Thanks. Always good to hear from you.

You must have sent me a psychic message. This video was very spontaneous, but maybe not!

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I find your videos much easier to follow than the other 2 main Olympus YT posters; others clearly like them, however, Peter, whilst obviously knowing his material, simply goes too quickly for me. Btw: I believe,?, you have put up a YT video on how to assign various settings to C1-C4 on the Pen F. I have both attempted to make these settings by going into the menus and pressing "OK"" at the end, but when turning the Pen F on again, the settings have been lost Secondly, thought you put up a YT on this, and rather than being bone lazy and simply asking you for a link, have searched your videos - without success. If there is a YT video, or a link to your FB camera page, would be very grateful if you could send it to me. Finally, was very interested in one of the very early YT videos I watched after purchasing my 2 mint Pen F's. This dealt in part with setting the various 4 film options to L and SF in the dedicated menu. I have not attempted this from the SCP. However, I would have thought? that when all 4 settings are set to L and SF, and OK pressed on exiting, that would result in all image settings being both L and SF- this is what I wish to do. However, once again, despite going into the dedicated image quality menu- not the row of options on the R hand side of LCD what may come up if attempting to set via SCP, these settings are also lost. All in all, have done this countless times and each time, I lose the settings! The difficult part should be locating the correct menu, the one with image settings going from L-R as I have seen in your video on this subject. After making the setting adjustments to the image settings, how do you "lock"" or set them. PLease advise if you wish these queries to be made on your FB page. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, once again.

Thanks, Ted. I updated the title and description with your suggestion. I'll have to test the tracking but I'm pretty sure it won't work that way.

Thanks. I'll have to do a vlog where I use those settings in real life.

@@RobTrek When I select a focus point on my camera, the brackets are visible but also the small circle?

Thank you!

Hello Rob, I tried to tie the EM-1 focus points to the spot meter but it does not seem to work. Is this a limit of the EM1 Mk1?

@@rogerdad5845 I don't have the EM-1 Mark I, but checked the manual. Doesn't seem to have that ability.

I'll look into this and get back to you. Thanks.

I don't think that would make sense. HDR would over/under expose too much and clip. I'll give it a try and see.

Thanks. Sorry, I don't have a video about video settings on the EM5ii.

You got everything right except you can untie the spot meter from the focus point on the em1.3. Look in menu E3.

@@RobTrek i must be missing something as I dont see how to untie in E3. Under Spot metering it just seems to give me options to untick if I dont want them. the other options are Metering [mode] AEL Exposure shift Which one has the uncouple ? Thanks

@@marklaurendet1861 The options under Spot Metering are the options you want - if you don't want spot metering tied to focus, simply uncheck that option.

@@barrysteger8764 Thanks got it now

Hi. Go into the E. Exp/*/ISO and then scroll down to spot metering. Click right and select the check boxes for Spot, Spot Hi and Spot Shadow.

@@RobTrek That worked. Thanks again!

Hi. Were are you seeing the term "af-area metering"? Everything in this video should be identical on the E-M1x. For metering, there is only digital ESP, Center weighted, Spot, Spot Hi, Spot SHadow.

I always reset my camera before each tutorial. I do normally set to to Raw+LSF. Thanks.

On the OM-D cameras, go into the "D" menu and turn on Live View Boost to "ON1" for the modes you're shooting. Also, turn on the OVF setting in the EVF menu.

@@RobTrek I actually use an EPL9 the Live view boost only gives a brighter display and the exposure is fixed on my screen, what I want is the "Constant preview" that the Lumix have, Thank you.

@@johnvincentespiritu4768 I see. The Olympus doesn't have anything like the Constant Preview. The normal live-view is about the closest thing but is limited to +/- 3 stops.

Interesting. I'll look into it but I think you have found one of the few limitations here.

Thanks for your expert advice, Rick!

The Spot Hi/SH is more flexible. It's rigid in how many stops it will adjust. I'm not very good at keep a flying bird in the focus point, but might be worth trying Spot Hi.