Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II: Exposure Compensation for Beginners Part 3 

Olympus should hire you and include your excellent videos with every E-M10 sale... I'm getting to really know and enjoy my camera. Thank you.

What I love about these Videos is: there not just teaching me about my OMD, they're teaching me about photography - Many Thanks

I'm honestly blown away at how well you teach, I have been trying to figure these things out for so long and this series just makes it all so clear, so simply. 👍

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Just Started using my omd Em 10 again and found your videos and learned more in 2 days what i have learned in last 3 years about my camera. Thanks a lot . A subscriber now :)

Really enjoying this series! SUPER HELPFUL and Rob is a very good teacher! Thank you!

I purchased my OMD E-M10 Mark 2 in 2017 and have mainly taken video with it at a basic level. I stumbled across your channel and these tutorials...WOW! I wish I had seen these 3 years ago! Excellent!

I learned a lot, I now go over your video's for the second time, there is so much to learn. It's now a year later and I now understand things more easily. The first time I felt very intimidated and now I feel less intimidated and more curious and eager to learn

You're teaching methods are so spot on. Thank you for having these easy to understand videos!

Super helpful ! I am now beginning to feel more comfortable with this camera thanks to your tutorials!!

Now I've learned why things are blinking on my screen, many thanks Rob! :)

Just got my Mark III and thanks to your tutarials (even though about Mark II) that I'd watched before buying camera, once I got it, I could immediately start shooting and find it easier to navigate through the menu, settings etc. Thanks a lot Rob! I will recommend your tutorials to my friends and all interested in getting into basics of photography.

If you haven't discovered Rob Trek yet, you're missing out on one of the most natural teaching styles you'll experience. He doesn't rush the viewer and delivers information in sizes of bites that you can digest. I've been using my new Em5 for 6 months and have learned things watching Rob that I should have picked up by now but didn't . Thank you Rob. Keep up the excellent work.

A great learning tool. Every time I watch it I lick up something I missed before. Thank you Rob.

Rob, All of your videos are awesome. I have an OMD-EM10 and have watched quite a few of your videos about that camera. You explain everything very clearly and concisely, and your videos are just plain enjoyable to watch! Many Thanks for all your work!

I have watched part 1, 2, and 3 and have found them all very useful and well done; I plan to watch your other videos. Thank you !! .

Rob, Sometimes I get stuuuuupid and go back to these great videos to straighten my brain out. Thanks!!!!!

Rob has taught me more than any other class I have taken! Great job Rob and thank you!

Just getting back into my OMD - EM10 and your series is fantastic. My photography excitement level is back through the roof. Thank you!

Have just watched Parts 1, 2 and 3 and I finally have an understanding of my wonderful camera. I tried reading the manual but none of what I was reading made sense like it did when watching you. Thank you so much

Mate, I love these videos. Really straightforward and easy to follow along with. This is my first proper camera and until I found your series I was feeling quite intimidated by it, especially when my photographer friends and family members are throwing all kinds of advice and unfamiliar photography language at me.

Only got the camera a couple of days ago and have practiced after each tutorial. I can already see the improvements. Excellent and more helpful than you probably realise

Had my E-M10 over a year, lots of fun and great travel camera. I have many years SLR film and digital experience but have just found your videos giving me a new sense of understanding of my E-M10 and some great photo tips along the way. Great Job.

Thanks Rob... again You have a way to explain things that simplify what seems scary complicated 👍

Rob, I have just picked up this camera in a conscious move away from my Canon DSLR. This series has truncated my learning curve and allowed me to not feel like a numpty in a very short time.. I appreciate your knowledge and expertise, along with the considerable effort to create these videos. Thankyou sir.

Thank you so much, Rob. I have been using Olympus cameras (my last: the OM20) for the first part of my life, then didn't have time for my hobby for the longest time, got lazy and used my i-phone. i'm now retired and discovered during my recent visit to Yellowstone that the i-phone really doesn't cut it. So, sticking with what i know to be a decent camera, I just got the Olympus OMD M10 II. To say it mildly, their manual stinks. And while there are any number of videos out there, they all assume you already know what the camera can do, and what all the functions stand for. You are the first and only one who starts at the very beginning. THANK YOU. you are opening a new world in cameras for me. i knew i had a good camera, and you showed me what i can do with it. You are patient, explain clearly, don't assume anything, and walk us through it! Please keep making tutorial videos. As i get further into your tutorials, i may make suggestions or ask questions.

Thanks Rob I have had my camera for a while now and I wish I had seen your videos earlier. They are fantastic and I am learning new things. I have a renewed enthusiasm to get out there and take photos.

Rob, as a new OM-10 Mark II owner, i’ve read the manual at least 3 times, often times with some confusion. But watching your excellent tutorials, everything about the camera makes sense! Thanks so much and please keep you videos coming!

Excellent series Rob

Ok... thank you so very much for your videos. I am in love with my camera because of you. Your teaching style is outstanding!

This is another very effective and well-done presentation. You have answered some questions I had and some I did not know I had.

These beginner series are great Rob. I have mainly been shooting in manual, thinking it was sort of cheating if I used the other modes. What you are saying really is, make full use of your camera. The manufacturers put all the modes and settings in their cameras to improve our photography. If the technology is there, then use it.

I recently purchased an E-M10 Mark II and your beginner videos have been very helpful. Even though I am not new to photography (I used to shoot with film and do my own development and printing of photos) I am relatively new to digital photography. I am on Part 4 of your videos now and can't wait to finish the rest. The videos have given me so much more confidence in shooting with my new digital camera and enabled me to have more fun rather than being frustrated with the complexity of all the overwhelming menus and settings. Your explanations are so much better than the Olympus user manual (which I am reading cover to cover). By the way: I even watched your video where you explain why you selected the E-M10 Mark II vs. the E-M5 Mark II and found myself echoing your conclusions. Totally agree!! Not worth 2x the price $$ for my shooting needs (but I acknowledge that it maybe totally worth it for others though). Thank you for taking the time to do these tutorials and I look forward to many more. You are a natural teacher and have a great gift for explaining concepts very clearly. Love your equipment recommendation links too. Definitely adding to my wish list there. Thank you Rob!

I cant thank you enough Rob. I had limited time to get my head around the camera and its settings ahead of taking it to hospital today to capture some images after the birth of my first child. Thanks for taking a step back to basics (for you) to help beginners like me get off on the right foot with this camera and photography in general!

Thanks Rob, your videos are the best I have seen and are really encouraging me to learn more. I am just glad I found them online.

I just got the E-M10 MII and your videos are excellent. A treasure trove of information. Thank You.

great Rob 💖 can't thank you enough!

Hi, Rob. I find these videos really helpful. As I'm going with the progress, I am having to go back and forth as I experiment, which helps to cement the knowledge. I would like to thank you for your time and expertise: you are helping me to understand not only the camera, but photography, also. It isn't just holding a camera up and pressing a button. I find it a very technical process, and to me, who has not got a technical brain quite stressful. I look forward to session 4. Thanks again. John

Great video, and very helpful for the exposure problems I’m having with backlit subjects right now. I could do with less “OK“ and “right.“ Thank you for this video!

Thank you so much for doing a beginner series. I purchased my E-M10 Mark II last month and hadn't used a "real" camera since the late 80's in a photography class in school. With only vague memories of basic terminology, I binge watched a lot of your previous E-M10 Mark II videos and still felt in over my head since my foundation is still weak. Consider me very interested in starting from scratch. I really enjoy your clear style of educating with no undercurrent of condescension or gear elitism. I second the request for accessories and lenses that don't break the bank. I'll certainly keep an eye out for the next installment.

So Rob......... I was really having trbl finding the histogram and getting that clear and concise reading as your live view. Anyways, I switched that back button ... the AEL/AFL and tada! Got it now. Even wrote to Peter Forsgard. You guys will just presume, I'm certain, that this is all so new to me. BTW, have you done a vid on that nasty button??? I seem to remember that you may have. Thank you for all that you do for us viewers, Rob..

First tutorials of using this camera for beginners that actualy are for beginners. Great that you put you time and effort in this, I follow these things vids till the end. What would be something to think about, since you asked for suggestions, is giving people homework. Try to take 6 pics with bad lighting for instance, and try to beat HDR. Just an example, I am sure you can think of better homework yourself since you play with these things. Looking forward to part 4. Thanks a lot!

Rob, these series are so helpful! I’m not tech savvy at all and you are making this camera easy to understand and use. I’m looking forward to playing around with exposure compensation and HDR this weekend. I can’t wait for part 4! Thanks again

Great series Rob - just got my camera a month ago, I've been taking photographs for years, but this camera has so many features and you explain everything so well, and at the right speed so I can follow with my camera. Thanks - keep up the great videos

These are very useful. This is a very complicated camera, which I knew before purchasing. I'm not a beginner, so some of your recommendations don't work for me. For example, I think the highlight/shadow adjust assigned to a function button may be very useful. This series has been a great explanation of a camera with a lot of non intuitive functionality. Thanks.

Rob thanks for these video's as just moved over to the omd 5 from dslr, try'd reading the manual to find different things and found it really hard work. Then I found your site an absolute god send. Having found you you have saved me many hours of going back and forth to the manual just to set up the camera how I like it. Keep up the great work and I look forward to learning even more from you.

Hiya - I am so grateful for finding your page. You are helping me in so many ways with my cam. You are the best - even if it is in english. (I live in Denmark) :-)

Great Video, Rob

Top notch as always. A great tutorial for the absolute beginner like me. Thanks for the upload.

Thanks. The combined use of the exposure compensation and HDR really helps ... really looking forward to the part 4 of the series.

Thanks for confirming HDR shuts out shutter delay. Exposure compensation was already available in my C-2500L and D-400 ZOOM, but buried in the menu then in 2000. In the film days it was called 'varying shutter speed and/or aperture'. On the pocket zooms I reduce EV(variation) to bring back color saturation, since the long zoom lenses get internal flare. The short zoom kit lenses on the E-M10 versions just about do away with the flare, hence EV=0 has proved safe for me so far. Less flare also allows me to retrieve both highlight and shadow detail in PP on the E-M10, which I cannot get back on the pocket zooms SH-1 and SH-2.

Thank you! i just bought a mark 3, so a little bit diff but im learning heaps :D

Thank you so much Rob. I love my Pen F now after watching your videos!

Another great video cheers

I got my hand on a Mark III this Black Friday and I'm surprised how relevant this tutorial still is. Just a few things can't be adapted, like the programming of the Fn buttons. They are far more limited on a Mk III, when it comes to their options. For example, you can't choose HDR, and the Quickmenu is now fixed on the former Fn3. There is no Fn3 on the Mk III. Nonetheless a very good tutorial series for a photography newb like me.

Brilliant videos. Thanks !!!

Very instructive and well explained videos! Just got my hand on a secondhand EM10MII and this is so helpful! I'd love to have eiter a video on accessories (grip, uv filter) or lenses (which ones are the best to begin with!). Cheers!

Another great video from Rob! No longer intimidated by my camera! 👏👏👏👏

Thanks alot for the excellent explanation of this camera!

La mejor serie. Clara y precisa !! Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱

Great video as usually.. You mentioned "Nothing is blinking". The red part for the highlights and the blue for the shadows. How can I set up. Which video shows that.. Otherwise congrats... Love your videos and learned a lot. Thanks

Rob. Can't tell you how pleased I am to have discovered your tutorials. As an old dog trying for the first time to learn new tricks these have been very helpful. On the exposure compensation video the aperture is set at 1.7. So I either missed the change in lens from the kit lens that came with my camera, 14-42mm 3.5-5.6 or I missed the instruction on how to get the aperture that open. I suspect that you are using a different lens but wanted to check.

Thanks Rob, your explanations are top notch! Really easy to understand with those nice examples. Cheers!

I love your explanation, just practised today with the flash on a flower and a black background, you showed in another video. I am wondering and looked for videos of you on the em 1 mk ll, but I miss them?

1:52 i would use a fill in flash for this example in fairness but i get what your saying about Exposure Compensation. This really would depend on the background light conditions - Would Exposure Compensation completely blow out the white background??... I think it would.

I bought one E-M10 Mark II just because of these videos. #Olympus just send some share to Rob. Thanks.

Wow, so helpful. Thanks Rob!

This is absolutely terrific!!! Thank you so much!

Thanks,really enjoying this series

Thanks for this, very useful. Perhaps you could make an episode on how to achieve sharp pictures in different settings and how to check (in preview) how sharp the pic is.

Awesome stuff! This was extremely helpful! thanks again!!

very nice video!! It would be helpful if you make a tutorial about the wi-fi functionality in details. I am especially curious to know if live-time, live composite functions can be availed fully using my mobile as a remote!! Thanks in advance!!!!

Great interresting vlog as always...A pleasure to whatch and follow. Rob, You are a true entrepeneur...!

Great job!

Thanks Rob! Really love your EM10 Mk II beginner videos, looking forward to the next one! ^^

Great vids

I'm very tankful for yours videos with your excellent and well understandable explanations. Have you any suggestions settings for beginners for a Wildlife Safari ? Thank you Rob.

Thanks Rob, seen this 3 episodes over and over again. My english is a little bad, so i repeating every moment. I may have missed how i aktivate the silent shutter. I wonder if you could explain that slovely, and also explain when to use it and when you do not use it. Best regards. Ulf Eriksson Sweden

Hi Rob, thanks for mail. do you have any separate video explaining Evie Scale? I mean on what basis it blinks? what [ - ] and [ + ] indicates for Evie scale?

Perfect! This is what I was looking for! Thank you so much!

Another excellent video Rob! I would subscribe twice if I could.

Thanks!

Top tips here, great guy

Hello Rob, I like the way you explain the setting very usefull for beginners like me¡¡¡¡ Could you make a video about how to use video setting? Thanks¡¡¡¡

Please keep share knowledge , Thanks

Nice one! There’s no need for 2 stops, I’d marry Polina right after one stop of the exposure compensation.

Hola rob ¿Todas estas configuraciones que estas haciendo de la m10 markII sirve para la E-M10 Mark III o la m5 mark II? Estoy a comprar una de esas 2 cámaras, estoy en duda si la m10 mark III o la m5 mark II, pero seguro que me compraré 1 de ellas. ¿podrías aconsejarme cual me interesa de esas cámaras? hago en especial fotos de paisajes y calle. Saludos.

Hi Bob! Thanks for your videos Bob, i noticed that when I'm in A mode i can not control the exposure, it only appear the A and the speed, if i want to change the exposure i need to change to another setting (M,, P, S) how can i add that to my A mode? Thanks

Thank you for your videos.Very informative.Does hdr work with long exposure? Would greatly appreciate your reply.Ps.Love my mark two recently purchased.

Thank you!!

Rob, do you think you will be doing a segment on downloading and basic editing with the Olympus viewer 3 software that came with the camera? Also some of the prompts when reviewing photos on LCD screen can be confusing. Please consider and thank you.

Please continue to make beginner videos !

Thanks Rob, Is there any way to use exposure compensation in manual mode? I am using em5 ii, it works on s and a but not in manual

I really like your videos. I've been watching them for a few months now. I like being able to set the Myset settings. But I have a question. Is there any way​ to save the Mysets to the SD card or maybe back them up to a computer?

I have an Olympus OMD EM10 Mark III and I have something I cannot figure out regarding exposure compensation. When I am in manual, the camera is stuck on -3 and I cannot change it at all. The dial won't move off that. I saw in an Olympus forum that this was happening to others, but Olympus has not addressed it. Do you have any info on this? Makes it really difficult to shoot in manual with this issue. Thanks!

Your teachings are so helpful and easy to understand. Thank you soooooo much for helping me understand my camera, and photography in general!

Hi Rob, new to olympus I have a question about lenses. I have a 45 mm lens F1.8 what does that really mean. the F1.8 part I understand but the 45 mm I don't understand? I also purchased another lens which I totally not understand it is a lumix panasonic lens and it says 14-42 0.2m/0.66ft. Can you please explain this to me? the sales person told me the 45 mm lens F1.8 was for portraits.

I purchased pen E-PL8. i still find it relevant. Is there anything major irrelevant with this series?

Interestingly on the mk1 when you enable hdr the exposure compensation becomes disabled

All my photos look noticeably darker than the camera's viewfinder/screen when extracted to my phone/computer. Any idea why that is?