I ordered on 2016.11.6 from amazon an Olympus battery for my E-M1.2.
Yesterday they informed me they had to cancel my order "Due to a lack of availability".
Luckily I bought 2 extra batteries back then from another vendor when they were in stock!
When shooting raw images in the E-M1.2 with Lexar 64GB 2000x memory card in the fast UHS II slot 1, I had occasionally in-camera errors. Those errors ceased to appear almost completely after formatting the card first on my Macintosh with Image Rescue 5 (IR5) and then in the E-M1.2. The camera would shoot 18 fps (that's what I had set, probably less according to https://www.mu-43.com/threads/e-m1-vs-e-m1-mk-ii-burst-rates-with-four-thirds-lenses.89602/) with C-AF L Silent for as long as I pressed the shutter button fully down without slowing down. What a joy. In many burst mode short and long sequences I shot way more than 10,000 images without any significant issues. So far so good.
Then I tried shooting videos up to the time limit (less than 30 minutes) set by the camera. That's when I encountered "Card Error" in the E-M1.2 with my Lexar 2000x card. With IR5 I could recover some old images but never video files. After formatting, the card would also fail in the slow UHS I slot 2, so became useless to me. I then tried a Lexar 64GB 1000x memory card in both slots, slow and fast, until the card got so corrupted that it couldn't be formatted any longer either in-camera or on the Mac. That reminded me of last summer when the same corruption had happened with two Lexar 64GB 1000x memory cards in my E-M5.2 while shooting the same lengthy videos.
So, a few days ago I got the SanDisk 64GB 280 MB/s memory card that Olympus recommends in their table. I shot raw images and long videos with it on both my E-M1.2 and E-M5.2 without encountering the "Card Error" message. So that card doesn't cause the same severe problems that the Lexar cards did. So my two cameras with the SanDisk card in them are quite useable. They may still have other little quirks that should be able to be addressed in future firmware updates. But both cameras appear to be basically sound. I also have received a SanDisk 64GB 300MB/s memory card that works fine in my E-M1.2. I have not tried it in the E-M5.2 yet.
On DPReview was pointed out that Lexar had acknowledged that their 128GB 2000x memory card caused the problems in the E-M1.2. They now have addressed the problem through issuing REV B of that card. I am assuming they will do the same for their other cards. Anyway I have obtained an RMA number from Lexar and mailed them for replacement with the corrected cards two 64GB 2000x and four 64GB 1000x memory cards. Lexar says it will take them several weeks to send out the replacement cards. BTW I still have several 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB Lexar 1000x memory cards that work just fine in my Sony cameras that use UHS I slots. No particular problems encountered there.
When shooting raw images in the E-M1.2 with Lexar 64GB 2000x memory card in the fast UHS II slot 1, I had occasionally in-camera errors. Those errors ceased to appear almost completely after formatting the card first on my Macintosh with Image Rescue 5 (IR5) and then in the E-M1.2. The camera would shoot 18 fps (that's what I had set, probably less according to https://www.mu-43.com/threads/e-m1-vs-e-m1-mk-ii-burst-rates-with-four-thirds-lenses.89602/) with C-AF L Silent for as long as I pressed the shutter button fully down without slowing down. What a joy. In many burst mode short and long sequences I shot way more than 10,000 images without any significant issues. So far so good.
Then I tried shooting videos up to the time limit (less than 30 minutes) set by the camera. That's when I encountered "Card Error" in the E-M1.2 with my Lexar 2000x card. With IR5 I could recover some old images but never video files. After formatting, the card would also fail in the slow UHS I slot 2, so became useless to me. I then tried a Lexar 64GB 1000x memory card in both slots, slow and fast, until the card got so corrupted that it couldn't be formatted any longer either in-camera or on the Mac. That reminded me of last summer when the same corruption had happened with two Lexar 64GB 1000x memory cards in my E-M5.2 while shooting the same lengthy videos.
So, a few days ago I got the SanDisk 64GB 280 MB/s memory card that Olympus recommends in their table. I shot raw images and long videos with it on both my E-M1.2 and E-M5.2 without encountering the "Card Error" message. So that card doesn't cause the same severe problems that the Lexar cards did. So my two cameras with the SanDisk card in them are quite useable. They may still have other little quirks that should be able to be addressed in future firmware updates. But both cameras appear to be basically sound. I also have received a SanDisk 64GB 300MB/s memory card that works fine in my E-M1.2. I have not tried it in the E-M5.2 yet.
On DPReview was pointed out that Lexar had acknowledged that their 128GB 2000x memory card caused the problems in the E-M1.2. They now have addressed the problem through issuing REV B of that card. I am assuming they will do the same for their other cards. Anyway I have obtained an RMA number from Lexar and mailed them for replacement with the corrected cards two 64GB 2000x and four 64GB 1000x memory cards. Lexar says it will take them several weeks to send out the replacement cards. BTW I still have several 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB Lexar 1000x memory cards that work just fine in my Sony cameras that use UHS I slots. No particular problems encountered there.
Great info - even though I don't have an em1II I never ever bought any other card except Sandisk. Read too many issues with Lexar and others with different cameras. Glad it works now.
savingspaces wrote:
Great info - even though I don't have an em1II I never ever bought any other card except Sandisk. Read too many issues with Lexar and others with different cameras. Glad it works now.
Well SanDisk cards caused havoc in my Leica M9 ... stayed away from them since.
bobbytan wrote:
I've had issues with both Sandisk and Lexar cards, but so far (touch wood) I have not had any issues with Sony and Samsung cards.
That's good to know. Thanks Bobby.
I use a Sony 256 GB card in my A7r, A7r.2 - no issues.
Panasonic Gold cards were the workaround for the Leica M9.
Those cards knew about power management and prevented the M9 from corrupting the memory card's file system.
Bandelier is only a short drive from my house.
Getting back, a couple of new lenses and the Lexar memory cards were waiting for me.
Lexar certainly returned my cards within a matter of days.
I believe those are the cards I sent them just a few days ago, as similar but newer cards have a black instead of a yellow label.
The cards must have only required a firmware update. That's my guess as I really don't know.
My Mac could mount all of them and they formatted in the E-M1.2 just fine.
I now need to see whether they can handle my images and videos.
Sorry K-H but these images look real mushy and lacking detail ... compared to your recent images with the 300 PRO. I wouldn't make the pictures so big.
Sorry K-H, have to agree, thoseTV shots look terrible. What was the point in posting them?
1. The larger someone posts an image, the more detail is lost, and the image usually looks worse, not better.
2. Unless one is shooting video, shooting thousands of photos and can't change cards, or shooting large files such as 5DSR files, I don't know why one would use 256GB cards. What is the point of putting all your eggs in one basket? By using 32GB cards instead, you decrease your risk of losing your images if a card gets corrupted by 8-fold.
3. Unless one is shooting very high-speed action, shooting at faster than 10fps just results in more images that are almost identical, and increases one's culling time. Nothing more boring than looking at a sequence of 10 or more shots when there is little difference between each shot.
bobbytan wrote:
Sorry K-H but these images look real mushy and lacking detail ... compared to your recent images with the 300 PRO. I wouldn't make the pictures so big.
Well Bobby, that's what that lens 75-300/4.8-6.7 seems capable of at larger distances when it's already getting pretty dark. Seems to make the case for using better glass, no? Getting closer is not an option in that setting. Neither is more light for most days, especially when it's overcast, as the vultures are only returning to the roost for the night.
I merely see these images as a record documenting the Turkey Vultures on their journey north pretty early in the year. That's the earliest I have seen them. The camera and lens that you have with you is the best.
