Tom Caldwell

Much the same as my use of some tools that were my father's - there is some extra pleasure in working with them that transcends their basic practicality. Thanks for the discussion on this lens.  I ...

Thanks for the Howto.  At one stage the adjustment was even easier and the "other'" manufacturers cheekily used to refer queries on this subject  to the "Howto" on the Metabones site. Gluing parts ...

I tend to agree. It is a personal thing - a lens is worth what it can do for you. There seems an endless market for very cheap MF lenses and the thrill of perhaps finding that masterpiece in a junk ...

Thanks for that report - we need good news as well as bad news.  It just re-inforces my thoughts that evf-burn is not inevitable and more random. I only have one E-M1 and use multiple G-M1 bodies ...

Replying to my own argument - the dioptre once set is fixed and I don't really think that the magnification increases with zoom screen magnification for manual focus purposes.  But perhaps if the ...

Juha, thanks for your information. It is interesting to see that the evf in your replaced evf has a different setting from the original - this might be part of the problem being fixed - a lower ...

Alouette, My understanding is that the evf can be burned whether or not is is switched on.  It is the sun's rays physically focused through the magnified part of the evf on its internal lcd that ...

Quite right - up here they are red, not black and can be harnessed into a buggy ....  but they keep chewing the bit to pieces .... buck a bit ... maybe there is an opportunity for an Aussie-ant ...

Good to know, maybe it was made post March 2015.  Furthemore the resistence to evf burn is not good enough for a commercial product - an adjustment dioptre should be capable of being used ...

Toasted ant-pixels are not very pretty. Slightly heartened by the knowledge that Olympus have known about this problem almost since day one.  One report that they had "a fix" due about March 2015 - ...

Scott Yes I agree, I think we need to know which cameras are susceptible and which ones are not - so far I have seen no reports of evf burn from any Panasonic user.  Perhaps small(er) evf units ...

When MF is used it is quite usual to magnify the image to get better focus.  One thing I have noticed that seems parculiar to my E-M1 is that at high magnifications both the focus peaking and ...

Thanks for the link. The IR filter seems to talk specifically about the heat problem and this seems the problem with the evf burn.  UV also seems to be a problem but more related to colour shift. ...

Thanks Kim, Four (! ) evf replacements .... The same thread said that Olympus had advised that "a fix" was coming in March 2015.  In that case my evf was fixed well after that date. Cause for ...

Try cutting grass on a tractor wearing shorts mid summer.  Best sun-tanned kneecaps in the business. Obviousy such cameras should be gripped hard in one hand and carried tucked under arm away from ...

You forgot glasses that allow you to read prices on shelves (also used for figuring out what speed you are driving at)  .... :)

Peter Not doubting your explanation.  But I am a reading glasses only man and although I need them to read a bit further away than I once did I am still pretty good with natural eyesight at infinity. ...

Yes, I reported it abut two months ago but I am pretty sure that it was an "old stock" unit athough I bought it unused. If a "hot filter" can be made by a user cutting one from appropriate material ...

Thanks for the link, I now remember seeing it but that was well before I had an E-M1 in my thoughts. This, I presume is the filter that should have been included in the evf by default.  Now I still ...

Summary so far: The problem seems mainly with Olympus E-M1 cameras - perhaps even restricted to early issue ones - where the dioptre is set high because of aging eyesight. However those with this ...