Am I just hearing things? But when camera is on and I have the shutter pressed half way I hear this static noise like a soft small fan running... Or like volume turned up but nothing is playing.. Is this just me?
Cool. Also any settings in multitude of menus that are immediately recommended. I'm coming from a canon world and the Oly menus will take some getting used to. Also the first time I have had a touch screen on a camera. One more thing.. I have a older sunpak RD2000 flash that I would love to use. I attached it to the em10 with no success.. It is a iTTL flasher designed for canon. Any suggestions? Chuck it and get a Oly one?
Dig through the menus and enable the Super Control Panel (often abbreviated to SCP) - info here http://blog.atmtxphoto.com/2013/05/07/turning-on-the-olympus-super-control-panel/ Lets you get to many many useful things from a single screen. Annoyingly its disabled by default.
I suggest a Nissin i40, the M43 version. Very powerful and small flash. Very easy to use. TTL works well.