I am a painter living in western Maine. I am a trained visual artist but not a trained photographer, although as a teenager in the '70s I studied film photography. My camera is an Olympus OM-D EM5 Mark ii, and it's my second Olympus — I had a film OM-D when they first came out and I have loved both ...

I want to configure my Olympus OM-D EM5 Mark ii to use an external powered clip-on mic (Boya BY-M1), and I haven't had any luck with that; once I plug in the mic I lose sound. I have verified the mic is turned on and it works with my iPhone; I have successfully recorded a voice memo with it on the i...