E-PL5, Myset via Mode dial, firmware bug or defect?

Neither a firmware bug nor a defect...you have a misunderstanding of the way MySet works.

MySet is NOT supposed to change when you change the mode dial...it's supposed to stay on the MySet you have chosen! If you want it to switch to MySet2 you have to go into the menu and select MySet2. If you change exposure modes after selecting a MySet, whatever settings you HAVEN'T changed manually will be whatever they are in the MySet you had chosen.

For instance, if I was in Manual mode and I had the exposure set to 1/125th f/8 and then Set that into MySet1, and later chose that MySet, if I was in M mode I get that 1/125 f/8...if I was in S mode and selected that MySet I'd have the 1/125, and whatever aperture the camera needs to balance te exposure...but if I didn't change the exposure settings and switched to A mode I'd have f/8 and whatever shutter speed is required by the camera etc.

The mode dial is independent from MySet, but it will adapt whatever MySet settings are possible.

 

As Mike said. You can assign modes to mysets, but you don't assign a myset to a mode. You can switch the mysets from the menu or with assigned buttons. The only mode dial position you can use to select a MySet is the iAuto.

 

The reason why I use M mode when I configure to save a MySet is it allows me to also choose the predefined shutter speed and aperture as well...really nice for my studio MySet where I mostly use flash.

 

Yes, Leif & Mike appear to be commenting on pre-e-pl5 behaviour.
It does seem a shame the button re-maps don't carry over with this new (awesome!) function, but even without them we now have a one-click access to proper bracketing, among other things.
This would be the second really important feature tempting me to the newest bodies.

 

Oh, you're right.

I always thought that you can only assign them to the mode dial position iAuto since this is the only one it shows directly. But you can move the cursor up to get the other ones. My fault  

So yes, Settings -> B -> Mode Dial Function is the way to go. Have to try out the other now...just used iAuto so far. Maybe they fix the other button assignments in a further update.

 

We could have a poll about which PASM we'd assign to MyMode.
I'd plump for 'S' since I always fungle everything else to get my shutterspeed into a general range for the job : and 'P' is nice for when I've got the flash on.
(I don't have an e-pL5, probably never will : there's no good place to glue on my modifications.)

 

Hmm, I'm on v1.1 and it hasn't fixed it for me.

For example, I have iAuto -> Myset1, and ART -> Myset2.
Myset1 = normal focus on shutter
Myset2 = focus on Fn

Sometimes - it works when I turn the mode dial to ART and the buttons get re-mapped.
Othertimes I have to actually go into the Myset menu and apply Myset2.
I haven't found a pattern... it works about 2/3 of the time successfully...

 

And yes this is an amazing feature and I don't think I'd buy a camera without it now!! Especially that you can have A-mode or S-mode in the Myset too...

 

The E-P5 has this bug too. I reported it to Olympus and they claim to have never heard about it.

 

Firmware version 1.2 is available and I have just upgraded. Other than the benefit of support for VF-4, I notice no difference.