Olympus & OM System Links

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Some Panasonic links included, particularly where we need to check compatibility issues when mixing brands of bodies and lenses. Some miscellaneous links down the page here.
Olympus and OM System links still in a state of flux, sone links dead, some auto re-direct to new pages. Slowly finding and fixing them here. As at 21st December 2022, not all fixed yet.
Aside: I use DuckDuckGo for all searching, that way there's no intrusive Google type tracking of my online activities https://duckduckgo.com/?  also Firefox browser in its setup has DuckDuckGo as an option for searching.
Olympus and OM System series of cameras.  https://asia.olympus-imaging.com/product/dslr/index.html

The OM System entry point    https://omsystem.com/en/   with country links at bottom of page.

The US informational page https://learnandsupport.getolympus.com/

 It is best to Google for Olympus and OM System reviews and help. Review here. Some tips here. John Foster's excellent help page on setting up the E-M1.  More setup tips here and info on the Colour Creator feature from Robin Wong here.  Robin Wong's settings cheat sheet is here. Robin used to work for Olympus so some of his pages state that he is an employee, but now (as far as I know) he is independednt of Olympus.
List of all possible button settings here.
Andrzej Wrotniak's E-M1 Mk2 settings here, very thorough.
Pen-F about the Creative Dial  http://myolympusomd.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/pen-f-significant-marker-in-digital.html
About tethering with Olympus Capture http://app.olympus-imaging.com/olympuscapture/en/
Various ebooks from Gary Friedman at http://www.friedmanarchives.com/ and for a free sample to see the style try the E-M1 V4 firmware update pages at http://friedmanarchives.com/~download/1me/E-M1_Firmware_4.pdf
Some useful E-M5 links
My E-PL1 and general Olympus M4/3 pages here.
My E-PL5 comments and notes here.
My E-P5 menu help is here.  Worth exploring even for most other Olympus Pen/OM-D bodies as they all have the same DNA with only a few differences.

Robin Wong's blog is always worth reading. http://robinwong.blogspot.com.au/

Andrzej Wrotniak's pages are of help with Pen and OM-D cameras.

New to me is https://www.adorama.com/alc where the big New York photo store has a bunch of general info and help for still and video shooters, not M4/3 specific of course.

All Olympus OM System camera manuals found from https://cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/pen.html#body
All Olympus manuals.https://cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/
Olympus Europe starting point for manuals https://www.olympus-europa.com/site/en/c/cameras_support/downloads/index.html
Olympus/OM System USA Support entry point for manuals, brochures, FAQs, downloads etc..  https://getolympus.com/
 links change so best to drill down into cameras from the start page. Never found the USA pages useful, best to go to the Japan pages for more reliable information and reliably maintained pages.
All Olympus bodies, FAQs and general information from Japan  https://cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/qa/products/slr.cfm

Panasonic information and manuals are much harder to find than Olympus and I find the only reliable sources are these.....
Panasonic Canada Support Manuals Download http://help.panasonic.ca/english/support/operatinginstructions/query.asp
Panasonic Euro Manuals Gateway.  http://dlc.panasonic-europe-service.com/EUDocs/
enter search item like 'dmcgx7', shows all available downloads, the big files are the user manuals, the smaller files are the useless manuals. Usually takes a month or two after a new camera release before the full user manual is added.

Find your shutter count Olympus http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/12-epl1-shotcount.html or https://www.apotelyt.com/photo-camera/olympus-mft-shutter-count or http://www.biofos.com/cornucop/hidden.html
Find your shutter count Panasonic http://www.apotelyt.com/photo-camera/panasonic-g-shutter-count
Note: with Panasonic shutter counts only the mechanical shutter is counted, the electronic shutter is not in that count. Olympus finally sorted that out in latest bodies, but other ones add electronic shutter  to mechanical shutter count.

Firmware is updated by using the update program that installs with Olympus Viewer 3 and connecting Olympus body via USB cable. Body, lens and accessory updates are checked and performed automatically.
Panasonic body users need to download the individual updates, place the BIN file on a memory card to do the update.
Read the instructions first https://cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/qa/contents/ow/ow_a2.cfm
Firmware update list. http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/firm/e1/
Firmware downloads for those using Olympus lenses on Panasonic bodies http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/fourthirds_olylens.cfm
Panasonic Firmware notices http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/

Olympus, Plastic bits that get lost http://www.getolympus.com/us/en/parts.html and then select your camera model to see all the bits available.
Olympus Australia Shop, bits and pieces, no bodies or lenses in shop... http://www.olympus.com.au/shop.aspx
Battery note, all of E-P1/2/3, E-PL1/2/3/5/6/7/8/9, E-PM1/2, E-M10 Mk1/Mk2/Mk3 can use the BLS-1 or BLS-5 or BLS-50. All of E-P5, Pen-F, E-M5 Mk1/Mk2, E-M1 Mk1 use the BLN-1 battery. E-M1 Mk2 uses the BLH-1 battery.

Olympus  Workspace download  Win/Mac....  https://download.omsystem.com/pages/owdownload/en/  Also includes the firmware updater program. Olympus Workspace reads and edits any jpegs, from all brand cameras, but only will convert Olympus ORF files, no other brand RAW files are handled.
Olympus Capture for E-M1 Mk1 v2 firmware and up, or E-M1 Mk2 or E-M5 Mk2 ...... http://app.olympus-imaging.com/olympuscapture/  to tether the camera to a computer.
Windows Remote Control of WiFi Olympus cameras https://rebs.biz/cc/en/index.html

For Panasonic files only free Silkypix SE V8 RAW and jpeg editor. http://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/p/
Silkypix SE for Panasonic reads/edits ONLY Panasonic RAW, jpeg and tiff files, and not for every model of Panasonic. No other camera jpegs can be processed..

Some other raw converters, all have free trial periods...... Google for more recommended free or cost programs.
Olympus RAW codec for Windows Vista and Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit. http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/codec/index.cfm
Panasonic RAW codec for Windows but no 64 bit http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/raw/index.html
Microsoft RAW codec pack for Vista and Win7, 32 and 64 bit, but check Overview first for cameras handled
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

See all M4/3 (and 4/3 lenses) and view specs. http://www.four-thirds.org/en/microft/lense.html

A new list at http://www.m43lenses.com/ Select the lens brand/type etc to make an easier to see display.

A useful M4/3 lens list with info on 4/3 lenses http://hazeghi.org/mft-lenses.html

Another excellent list is at https://www.apotelyt.com/photo-lens/micro-four-thirds-catalog

A very useful page on mixing Olympus and Panasonic bodies and lenses https://www.apotelyt.com/photo-lens/mft-compatibility

All Olympus compatibility tables from here. http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/compati/

All Panasonic body compatibility tables from here... http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/connect/index.html
(they are needed to see how Olympus components behave on Panasonic bodies)
All Panasonic lens compatibility tables here... http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/connect/FourThirds_lens.html
(they are needed to see how Panasonic lenses behave on Olympus bodies)

Olympus lens tests. https://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/olympus/reviews/
Panasonic lens tests. https://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/panasonic/reviews/
Optical Limits M4/3 lens tests (was Photozone)  http://www.opticallimits.com/m43
LensTip lens reviews http://www.lenstip.com/lenses_reviews.html

Matching simulation, see any M4/3 body with any lens. http://www.four-thirds.org/en/special/matching.html
Size comparison, most brands http://camerasize.com/compact/

Olympus PDF list of lens adapters. http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/MFT_Adapters_EN.pdf
Where to buy lens adapters. http://www.rainbowimaging.biz/shop/category.php?id_category=3&p=2
Best to Google for the exact adapter required, they come from all sorts of sources.
Adapters in Australia http://jjcphotography.com.au/catelist.aspx?cid=73&sid=735&bid=116
Also lens hoods in Australia http://jjcphotography.com.au/catelist.aspx?cid=73&sid=220&bid=1205

Compatible flash list (old badly maintained). http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/panasonic/11-flash.html#flashlist
Michael Meissner's old but useful flash list http://www.the-meissners.org/olympus-flash2.html

Using early days MySets http://www.mediafire.com/?a9av4rzk72pn4z6 5 page rtf file. Also here for more help.

Olympus camera Museum https://www.olympus-global.com/brand/museum/camera/
A quick look at some of Olympus' private museum by Blunty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RWOS0U-DFY

Olympus reviews and previews at DPReview site.
http://www.dpreview.com/products/olympus/slrs?sort=chronological&view=grid

Some may also own the Olympus XZ-1, here's a nice collected tips page... http://jon404.com/xz1tips.htm

Thorough user review of VF-2 and VF-3 http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=39337642



A few misc. links......
A sensibly written page explaining crop factor and what you may expect when using a different sensor size than you normally are used to http://dpanswers.com/content/tech_crop.php
Have Slides to Scan? Try this link http://scantips.com/es-1.html (2 pages, read both) where there is a good description of using the Nikon ES-1 with a camera.
Sensorgen tech comparison between sensors, many brands http://www.sensorgen.info/

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