(FT5) E-M5 price and poll (versus Nikon D800 and Fuji X PRO 1)
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Soon, at 2 am London time Olympus will officially announce the E-M5. The price will be the following:
Olympus OM-D E-M5 body only: $1000 or 1.100 Euro
Olympus OM-D E-M5 with 14-42mm lens: $1100 (don’t know the price in Euro yet)
Olympus OM-D E-M5 with 12-50mm lens: $1300 or 1300 Euro
Now in order to kill some of the waiting time I ask you: Within one month we had three new “WOW” cameras. The Fuji X PRO 1 (Click here to check price and specs), the Nikon D800 (Click here to check price and specs) and now the Olympus E-M5 (Click here to read the specs). So…..
Loading ...Don’t be fanboys 
P.S.: I will not sleep the hole night. Will drink tons of coffee and chat with you all the time!
acahaya
2 years ago |Assuming that amazing is not neccessarily positive: where is the new Pentax in the vote?
Imo it has the most amazingly ugly design, especially in black and yellow
The D800 has a huge sensor … which amazingly shows us the limit of most Nikon glass
The Fuji is a piece of art with a new sensor… and an amazingly limited choice of lenses
The M5 is a typical Oly product with probably amazing innovations (new IBIS?) not properly announced and explained, which is why nobody cares about them. As a consequence we are only discussing unamazing features like video codecs, dr and noise … and wtf are the weatherproof lenses to go with the new body???
QuantM
2 years ago |Best “breakthrough” sensor design of the three (approaching Foveon in elegance): Fuji X PRO 1.
Best ergonomics and system-ness: Olympus OM-D
(though I do not like the size increase due to the pentaprism mimic).
QuantM
2 years ago |PS Best in the lack of innovation – D800.
FT1 - probably fake rumor
2 years ago |Best future-proofed system OM-D.
Olympus E-M7 with Fuji Foveon sensor.
Tom
2 years ago |Fuji’s X-Trans CFA approaching Foveon? I applaud their innovation, ditching the AA is THE best move regards increasing resolving power but… I don’t see them coming out the other side minus aliasing – way too much interpolation required and on a greater scale than bayer!
Perhaps the old school approach of reducing moire and aliasing in software would’ve made more sense? Hello D800E.
Then again, I love Foveon sensors. Hoping that a 10MP, 12mm equiv. DP3 will be announced this year (long shot I know)! Do wish Sigma had the funds to bring Foveon into the video world – a “full aperture 4K” sensor with an intra-codec could do more than carve a niche!
andrezao
2 years ago |Hello!
First vídeo review OM-D E-M5
CNETTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydznRIa7fbw
QuantM
2 years ago |1. “Fuji’s X-Trans CFA approaching Foveon? I applaud their innovation, ditching the AA is THE best move regards increasing resolving power but…”
The Fuji trick is not removing the AA filter – it will increase moire, the trick is the RANDOM pixels alignment.
2. “Then again, I love Foveon sensors. Hoping that a 10MP, 12mm equiv. DP3 will be announced this year (long shot I know)!”
Despite obvious advantage (correct color reproduction), Foveon’s vertical pixels alignment (vs. the planar one of Bayer, Fuji) has a clear disadvantage: higher ISO noise due to the mutual current induction of the layers plus related chromatic noise.
If one was able to conceptually remove moire from the planarly alligned pixel sensors it would be a conceptual compensation for better color reproduction of Foveon. And Fuji have done it.
3. “Do wish Sigma had the funds to bring Foveon into the video world – a “full aperture 4K” sensor with an intra-codec could do more than carve a niche!”
Forget about 4K video on Foveon: Sigma does not have image processing tech even for good 1080p. Sigma killed Foveon.
Nuno Cruz
2 years ago |God, the camera looks so gorgeous!
end user
2 years ago |Love the “industrial” look of the body with the roundness of the lenses and accessories. I’m one of those people who doesn’t care about how many cameras a system sells, how popular a camera is or how long a system is produced as long as I’m happy with it BUT I see Olympus selling a SHIT load of these.
gaba
2 years ago |And it looks even better on the video review fom CNet in youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydznRIa7fbw
Enjoy!
TheEye
2 years ago |I missed it.
EDIT: That was supposed to go under P’s post with the youtube link.
Berbu
2 years ago |Good design.
P
2 years ago |@Admin Where are you? You said, you will chat with us all the time!
Stephane
2 years ago |His coffee machine is broken
P
2 years ago |Did anyone see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydznRIa7fbw
Ulli
2 years ago |cool!
Nuno Cruz
2 years ago |Bring the picture comparison, this might be my new camera in a couple of years.
Matthias
2 years ago |Wow, looks amazing, much better then on the pics
And what about this big … so many people complained about? 
Anonymous
2 years ago |That’s cool!!
Duchemin
2 years ago |Just now!
Cool! It is a small as it appeared in the hands of the polish guy!
I need to have it.
Nico Foto
2 years ago |Oh wow, that video really shows the size of the camera! Its petite! Love the size and the black metal look of it.
Ranger 9
2 years ago |Pulled as of 35 min after original post. Anyone know of a cached version?
P
2 years ago |Sorry I just have it open in my browser.
Matthias
2 years ago |Video removed… But I’m glad that I could see it before removing
Fish
2 years ago |Dang it, missed the video!! My own fault by not checking here often enough : )
Ulli
2 years ago |he is searching for any more leaks i guess
Ranger 9
2 years ago |…or taking one, if he has been drinking coffee all night…
cosinaphile
2 years ago |imagine , naming a new camera without an x somewhere in the name…..
olympus ….brave brave ….olympus.
been sitting on the fence between a g3 and ep3
getting off the fence…..
Camaman
2 years ago |This is the bravest thing they did apart from the design…
That official should have said Epoch naming, not Epoch VF… VF turned out to be a mere 0.58x magnification at best. Thats a long way off from OM 0,92x
1.33x extender DIY project here I come…
Jón
2 years ago |…or D.
simon
2 years ago |No built in flash ? the D800 pro camera even has a built in flash for some daylight fill in.
end user
2 years ago |Yah Olympus gives us the option to keep it on our packet. Lets see if I can still pop up the flash on my E-1.
Dummy00001
2 years ago |> Don’t be fanboys
You said it, so I have picked the D800/D800E.
It seems that medium format cameras would have raise the ante, because the 36MP isn’t off by that much from Hasselblad and Pentax. And the Nikon is cheaper by a factor.
E-M5 isn’t really that exciting – without lenses to put on it. Enthusiast or not, the system isn’t there yet. I’d wait for the GH3 and the rumored 12-35 and 35-100 before calling anything a “m43 of the year.”
Fuji… those guys live in another universe for sure. No way I would ever pay more than two grands for a street camera. Especially when we have plenty of “good enough” options at much lower price, the price at which I’m much more comfortable taking the camera with me on the streets.
pdc
2 years ago |How many lenses do you want?
Can’t believe that comment.
Russ
2 years ago |You can’t take advantage of the Nikon’s 36MP because of the available glass.
Camaman
2 years ago |Wow that video is great! Thanks!
So I guess there is no magic in the hump.
On a more brighter note the hump doesn’t look that pointy as it did on the pictures so far. Looks cool.
Now show us the silver version!!
Jim Ramsey Khoury
2 years ago |Yeah looks smaller in that pic. All in all, this is shaping up to be a nice cam. For $1000, you get quite an upgrade over most m43 cams in terms of features.
Fan
2 years ago |Silver or black? That would be a good poll here. Silver is more original OM isn’t it?
Nico Foto
2 years ago |cameras and women lingerie should be (mostly) black
Ulli
2 years ago |hahaha..starting to know you better by the minute Nico
Nico Foto
2 years ago |achiinto
2 years ago |I like it red for non camera.
avds
2 years ago |Pentax!
/Sorry, couldn’t help some sarcasm…/
Seriously though, Fuji is a clear big step forward, and not just for Fuji it seems, even though we have yet to go through the sacred pixel peeping ritual to worship the Gods of IQ and present them with gifts from Mount Fuji
The other two are pretty evolutionary. For m43, the usual suspects (G3, GX1, GH2 and E-P3) are not going to lose any slice of appeal once the Oh-My-Humpy is officially announced
safaridon
2 years ago |Admin – remember this is supposed to be a m4/3 forum and not an all camera forum. Comparing with Nex7 or FujiXpro1 is fair enough as both MILS but comparing with FF D800 makes no sense at all. Net result a furry of posts about the D800 being better etc rather than about the topic of this rumor the price of the new E-D5.
Mike
2 years ago |I’m so OM-D ready (screw the PEN!).
Grip, flash, bracket, E-M5 body… I’m looking forward to this! I can use my E-P3 as a backup body.
Fan
2 years ago |Admin, there’s a new leak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydznRIa7fbw
P
2 years ago |Already sent it too him. I think he is busy.
Ranger 9
2 years ago |YouTube says the video has been removed by the user. Maybe the hump contains tiny ninjas who emerge to punish those who violate the NDA? But it seems odd that Olympus would care so soon before the official release.
CRB
2 years ago |Vs D800? only a joke right?
JimD
2 years ago |In the 60s in England they had auto racing on TV and one category included the Ford Galaxy (the 60s style that could land 2 jumbo jets at once 1 on the bonnet and 1 on the boot) and it also included the mini coopers, the original ones not the pseudo German ones. The Minis always won on wide tracks and the Fords on the narrow tracks (if a ford got pole) because the minis had no room to pass.
The mini drivers used to say they had more fun driving.
The m43 v D800 is a bit like that.
Berthie Bernunsa
2 years ago |+1
d800 is a game changer
Omd is just another m43 with good design and built
Gabriel
2 years ago |Oly looks like my good old OM10, but it’s not a FF, only a µ4/3. Not a bad sensor after all, but there is always the same problem with smaller sensor, it’s more difficult to control bokeh, and the slow 12-50zoom make it bad. Why on earth there is not entry level FF ??? I don’t want zillion pixels in an armored body with more button than on a teenager faces, but simply something like a real digital OM. Canon and Nikon race for the more mpx camera with tons of button, knobs and lever. Pentax make a tiny Q and and a K01 which is the son birth from the union of a K5, a Kr and a brick
Fuji drop DSLR and try to mimics Leica. Sony try to manage two system, one with small boby and big lenses and other for ex Minolta fan boys with some high tech innovative features for techies. µ4/3 Oly and Pana make more or less the same camera and lenses, silver lenses for Oly and black for Pana 
Jim Ramsey Khoury
2 years ago |It’s simple as to why there is no entry level FF camera. A FF sensor costs about 4x more than a 4/3 sensor. APS-C sensors probably cost as much as 4/3 due to economy of scale. And a better body will obviously add to the cost. Don’t expect any FF cameras soon below 2k. Maybe in a few more years?
Opliger
2 years ago |Sony A850?
JimD
2 years ago |Gabriel,
Look at the images taken with the 12-50 and the Voitlander 25mm, the bokeh and control is available. If you want to print on a wall FF is fine but if you want to print A2 some times and A3 occasionally and A4 often then why bother with the weight and cost of FF.
Sim
2 years ago |My goodness. Great video! Didn’t expect it to be so compact. The close-up pictures are quite misleading. I’ll definitely be getting one.
Matthias
2 years ago |By the way, are these pics really worth to pay so much for that cam? http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d800/sample02.htm I don’t know…
Ulli
2 years ago |maybe not for us, but others yes certainly. Is there something you dont like in this sample 1? I had the impression that this shot looked very sharp in fitted view but 1:1 its lesser. the Geisha portrait however is impressive regarding the resolving in detail
Matthias
2 years ago |I think I’ve seen better pics with older cams from Nikon and other companies. For me sharpness and details are not the way that I would say “wow…”. But maybe it’s about the photographer that made these pics and we have to wait for more pics. I don’t want to say that the pics are bad, but I expected more.
JimD
2 years ago |Ulli, Yes. It shows up the dust specks on the kimono very well.
T-L
2 years ago |Only shows how shitty is performance of Nikon FX lenses in corners..
RW
2 years ago |You can’t read too much into a few early sample photos. M43 can’t compete with full frame in any real contest of IQ, and photos from the D800 will walk all over the EM-5 IQ wise. To assume any other outcome is not realistic.
I don’t think that is really what the EM-5 is about, however. The m43 target market justifies the compromise in IQ (read sensor size)in exchange for significantly smaller camera bodies/lenses. However, if compactness is not a priority to a particular photographer, then he/she can easily make the point that the EM-5 is not “worth” what it will cost. Different strokes and all, yes?
Jim Ramsey Khoury
2 years ago |If you’re making money, 3k is a decent investment. This isn’t a cam for the casual photographer.
YouDidntDidYou
2 years ago |@Jim Ramsey Khoury
I wold rather spend the difference on my kids or a holiday or even better a holiday with my kids and let my photos do the talking…
Jim Ramsey Khoury
2 years ago |Well I meant if you’re using this as a studio cam. If you’re going on a vacation, the D5100 or D7000 should be more than enough. Who the hell would need such a large number of pixels on holiday?
Jason
2 years ago |I hope they made the shutter a bit quieter…
BLI
2 years ago |Check out interview with Terada-san (Olympus chief developer) in ClubSnap Singapore — on Peak focus, new lens talk, etc. And improvement in DR (“1/3 improvement over current sensors” — whatever that means…).
BLI
2 years ago |Or whatever his position is…
Ulli
2 years ago |direct link? can’t find it
P
2 years ago |http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/four-thirds-standard-4-3-m43/1042672-interview-toshiyuki-terada-group-hd-product-marketing-planning-olympus-imaging.html
TheEye
2 years ago |The interviewer didn’t ask about 4/3 lenses’ AF performance on the E-M5…
Faster than 1/4000 seconds is a future consideration, along with focus peaking.
The camera department had nothing to do with the scandal. “We didn’t do it.”
Ulli
2 years ago |thanks!
Nico Foto
2 years ago |1/3 stop improvement! Whatever they were talking about doesnt sound too impressive, does it?
BLI
2 years ago |The source “ClubSnap” doesn’t say 1/3 *stop* improvement, but 1/3 improvement. We’ll see what it means.
TheEye
2 years ago |I wonder why the interviewer didn’t ask, “1/3 better based on and compared to what?”
Nico Foto
2 years ago |The quote:
“boasts Dynamic Range that is a 1/3 improvement over current sensors”
That sounds to me like 1/3 stop more of DR?
TheEye
2 years ago |I wouldn’t interpret it as 1/3 stop. DR is a range (9, 10, 11, 12 etc EV). Is the whole range improved by 1/3? For example 12 EV versus 9 EV? Or is he talking about highlight DR being improved by 1/3? Let’s say highlight DR was 3 EV, now it’s 4 EV.
The 1/3 claim is meaningless without knowing what’s being compared and measured.
Jonko
2 years ago |To me, it sounds like 1/3 = 33% more. I think he would have said stops if he meant stops. But, 33% seems too large, so who knows.
Ranger 9
2 years ago |Technical people traditionally measure DR in logarithmic density units, of which 0.3 = 1 stop/EV. Wonder if that’s what he meant…?
achiinto
2 years ago |Or 33% improvement?
flash
2 years ago |Nice interview. When asked about a 10mm He said, “Yes, we can consider the possibility of faster and wider prime lenses.” He also mention about a long telephoto.
TheEye
2 years ago |“consider” means “not wasting even a thought on it.” I interpret his reply as, “Hump off.”
Archer Sully
2 years ago |No, it just means that he can’t talk about it. Its just a form of “we cannot comment on future products.”
Nico Foto
2 years ago |Like this very much: “It can withstand heavy rains and is built to the standards of our E-series of cameras and lenses.”
Few manufacturers dare to say that! They just say “weather resistant”, “moisture resistant”, etc. But “Withstand heavy rain” definitely sounds confident.
Ulli
2 years ago |it an underestimated feature of the E-series. I remember an article about an expidition to antartica where they took a dozen cameras with them ..mostly highend nikon and canon, plus a few olympus e-1 r e-3…the olympus bodies where the only ones without malfuntion during that time
Rob
2 years ago |I’ve got to hand it to the admin… Nothing stirs up the Internet “experts” like starting a debate about cameras that hardly anyone has even seen in person! battle of the spec sheets!!
YouDidntDidYou
2 years ago |E-M5 doesn’t have focus peaking yeah!:D unfortunately Olympus are considering it for future models
BLI
2 years ago |His argument is that peak focus doesn’t work well in practice compared to magnification. Here, we should also notice that the design probably was fixed about a year ago, and that peak focus may come in a next generation — if it is found useful.
flash
2 years ago |I hope they do it with a software upgrade, it is good for video. People want it. I have not found it that good in use, but like I stated people want it.
RW
2 years ago |Its a poor argument. magnification takes you completely out of your composition – focus peaking doesn’t.
YouDidntDidYou
2 years ago |@RW
huh! I’ve been using magnified manual focus for 4 years on my Panasonic L10 cameras even for moving and low light subjects, I never bothered using focus peaking on my Sony video cameras and have never seen anyone use it either in the real world.
If you actually spoke to Nex or Ricoh owners you will notice they stop using focus peaking after 6-8 weeks once the novelty has worn off and they realise how impractical it is for fine focus and other situations…
Charlie
2 years ago |Focus peaking is great. I use it regularly.
RW
2 years ago |You use magnification for “moving targets”?? Well different strokes for different folks.
I also have been using magnified focus assist on my GF-1 for years – so I am not just shooting from the lip here… It takes me completely out of my composition whenever I use it, and so doesn’t suit my photo style at all. Having said that, I haven’t actually used peak focusing, so it may also be a “workaround” technology.
In the old days, I had split screen focusing on my OM-1. Now that was a manual focus technique that actually worked well. Of course, that assumed a real viewfinder and not just point-and-shoot LCD composing. Meh – I don’t want to argue about it.
Mat
2 years ago |Lack of support for manual focus system is so sad. I have no choice and have to stay with NEX until Oly or Pana improves the manual focus system.
One of the strengthes of M4/3 is that M4/3 has short lens registration, thus allowing you to mount a wide range of mount type (i.e. Leica M mount, Nikon F-mount, C-mount). Many of these manual focus are superior to today auto-focus lens in terms of optical quality and attractive color-rendering. For example, those great lens are Leica M lens, Carl Zeiss (Leica M mount) lens, Carl Zeiss (Contax G-mount) lens, Voigtlander (Leica M-mount) lens, Nikkor f1.2 & f1.4 AIS (F-mount), Tamron f1.2 (C-mount). Using these great manual-focus lens on M4/3 is absolutely a joy
Today, Sony, Nikon, Canon offer the efficient manual focus system in their camera bodies. For instance, Nikon’s manual focus system is able to precisely and accurately confirm once a subject is in focus at a selected focus point. If not, it even tells you how to turn the lens (i.e. clockwise, counterclockwise).
Sony understands their weakness of creating smaller lens for NEX, therefore implementing a feature called “focus peaking” which greatly supports the use of manual lens on NEX bodies. It is true that Sony’s focus peaking is not 100% accurate but at least it’s much better than having nothing.
I have pana GF2 and I know that how manual focus on both Oly and Pana work and are different from each other. Zooming at 100% and then checking the sharpness of the focus area is generally a good idea. However, the manual focus solution from Sony, Nikon, and Canon are much better.
Oly & Pana should improve the manual focus system if they want to attract users from NEX. I really love the design of EM-5, but my concern about the manual focus sytem is an issue.
jim
2 years ago |yeh magnifacation he finds better – lol – no they just don’t have it and he can’t say yeh we missed that, in our rush to market!
Just like 1/4000 shutter, and the 10mm F2.8 they will conseiider- they won’t/can’t say no to anything because it might alienate some possible customers… chances of a 10mm F2.8 being seriously considdered are slim – they have the 12… too many other lenses to do first… and by his reaction to pancakes I guess these are more likely on the cards!
Wonder what the chances of an SDK for this camera are?!… 0 I should imagine… pitty!
Remember 12 Mpix is all you need! – when they only have a 12 Mpix sensor avalible to them….
safaridon
2 years ago |Looking at the straight angular shape of the EVF prism hump in this picture looks quite different from the more rounded dome tent shown in previous pictures? One or the other must be fake and I hope this more straight angular lined hump is the real thing and not the rounded dome?
Or is this simply because of the distorted view from a wide angle lens on prior pictures? It almost looks that these are two separate models one a more pro one with a different spec EVF?
TheEye
2 years ago |The dome (hump non-grata) is curved. Notice the shading. The lower edge looks straight simply due to the angle from which the picture was taken.
safaridon
2 years ago |If anything this picture in this rumor shows the profile better than head on would hence should be a better reflection of the real thing. I think that in reality it is designed so they can remove the whole top prism and replace with a different configuration and EVF in a future model without having to build an all new model. That is my guess.
Also possible Oly could produce a model without any EVF using this camera body ie the EP5 with lower hotshoe
TheEye
2 years ago |A removable finder, uh we better all it hump now, in a $1,000 body weather-sealed would be quite a feat. I don’t expect this to come true.
I’m pretty sure you are on target with your last suggestion, which should be the E-P4.
TheEye
2 years ago |I’m going to get some snacks and more drinks now. Anybody need diapers?
The Real Stig
2 years ago |Haven’t worn one in several decades, so I’ll pass, but thanks all the same.
TheEye
2 years ago |My offer was meant for weak-bladdered camera joshi.
Ulli
2 years ago |lol..no diapers but thanks
Neonart
2 years ago |Admin, are you 100% about the US price?
Blackbeard Ben
2 years ago |I’m still trying to figure out what is so “Wow” about any of these cameras.
Except maybe the price of the Fuji. And not in a good way.
st3v4nt
2 years ago |While I try so hard not to be fanboys….as a 4/3 and m4/3 user on 4/3 rumors site it’s a tough choice….I vote for EM-5….
D800 have very amazing sensor with high count of 36 MP and almost no “AA filter” in D800E…but it’s not that amazing in term of new camera breakthrough….it’s quite easy for someone as big as Nikon to create new big count sensor…..and I bet it’s very little we can gather in term of IQ from that new sensor….
Although in the past I used to be Fuji analog user….X Pro 1 is a little bit let down….not in the term of breakthrough technology it have plenty of it but in term of price point and that they insist introduce yet another new system. Just because your a strong contender in niche market with X100 it doesn’t warrant you enough fan base to create yet another new system. If there’s a lesson that we can learn from domination and dividing of SLR and DSLR user is the stubbornness of two major player that insist they should hold on with their propiertary legacy system. Mirrorless should not follow the same problem by introducing system war (unless your name is Sony …:-))…….
So which system offer quite healthy environment and discrete look camera that I can carry around without worrying too much….? Well my vote goes to m4/3 system….even when I’m not always have the best bang for the bucks…..
Rocky Pesik
2 years ago |I have been enjoying Oly’s wheather sealed body and lenses since E-3 and E-5, and I think it is one advantage that many people forget. I got many great photos that it would be difficult for me to take if I didnt use a wheathersealed camera. One of the cheapest and smallest wheathersealed interchangable lens camera.
That advantage is one of my need.
Image quality? I didn’t have any complain with my old E-300 and I was even happier since E-3.
Lets have a comparison. Take 100 shots with E-3 and Nikon D800 in everyday condition. Print those photos 40×60 cm. I dont’t think many people can guess more than 60-70% right, which photo is using which camera.
voyager
2 years ago |For anyone who wanted proof that it’s weather sealed:
http://e-p1.net/olympus-om-digital-cameras/fully-weather-sealed/
awaler
2 years ago |I’d rather carry less than a 900g body of a Nikon D800.
That said, I must admit the sample images are gorgeous.
Look at sample 3.
Simply amazing for a camera in the sub 5000$ price range..
Pocho Azul
2 years ago |I don’t think any of them are amazing…yet. Need to see what kinds of pictures come out of them when they all become available.
Narretz
2 years ago |Hmm … stay up or go to bed? Decisions, decisions.
Is 2 AM London time the time when the event starts, or will it be instant – announcment?
43shot
2 years ago |I hear the admin fell asleep.
TheEye
2 years ago |Exhaustion, I bet. Someone poke him with a stick, please.
P
2 years ago |LOL..
Rocky Pesik
2 years ago |lucky i’m in this part of the world, its 7.30 am here
voyager
2 years ago |Screenshots from the removed Cnet video: http://e-p1.net/olympus-om-digital-cameras/first-e-m5-hands-on-video-from-cnet/
Charlie
2 years ago |Wow.
The thumbrest is just a little plastic piece. Thought it was metal/integrated.
TheEye
2 years ago |Looks like synthetic rubber to me.
Olympus crushes
2 years ago |@Charlie – It is magnesium alloy dipshit.
Ulli
2 years ago |lol
MichaelKJ
2 years ago |It’s funny how so many people automatically assume magnesium alloy is superior to plastic. Low quality mag alloy will dent easily while high quality plastic is virtually indestructible.
Tomasz
2 years ago |OMG this baby is beautiful and price is ok, let’s hope the final results are just as good as the design.I’m debating if i should get that with 12-50mm lens for $1300 or GX1 with X lens kit for $850,is it worth paying that extra $450 for EM-5 , can some pleas convince me to buy it or not????
Fish
2 years ago |Do you need/want a VF? If so, factor that in to the cost. How much is IS worth (supposedly improved IS)? 3 inch tilting OLED. You already know about the magnesium body and weather sealing… Im not sure what that adds to the value. Even consider the differences in lenses. The oly lens would be wider and longer, is weather sealed, internal zooming, and a modest macro ability. Is that worth an upgrade cost? Only you can answer that but I think that this new cam represents good value.
P
2 years ago |Here you go guys:
http://blog.bergencountycamera.com/
First sample images
Serge
2 years ago |Wow, those sample images : over-sharpened much?
Narretz
2 years ago |Lol, already removed. However, pictures are still online – if you have the url you can access them directly. Got only the first one though:
http://blog.bergencountycamera.com/wp-content/gallery/olympus-e-m5/b1112749.jpg
P
2 years ago |http://e-p1.net/olympus-om-digital-cameras/olympus-releases-the-om-digital-e-m5-%28samples!%29/
Ageha
2 years ago |A bit small, isn’t it? lol
Ulli
2 years ago |cool
Ulli
2 years ago |press release about the new lenses
http://www.olympus.com.au/getmedia/8c0abfaa-a516-43db-aac6-d082c00d13ce/PR1202002.pdf.aspx
end of 2012
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Anonymous
2 years ago |sweet. looks like the macro is 1:1
Anonymous
2 years ago |nice. looks like the macro is 1:1. I wonder how it will compare to the 50mm f2 IQ?
Fish
2 years ago |Sweet. Looks like the macro is 1:1! I wonder how the IQ will compare to the 50mm f2?
Ranger 9
2 years ago |2 hours to go! Admin, how’s the coffee holding out?
admin
2 years ago |Fuck. I fell asleep for one hour. Couldn’t resist
Matthias
2 years ago |Tststs, don’t use such bad words
TheEye
2 years ago |Get yourself together, man!
fl00d
2 years ago |LOL first time I have seen admin cuss.
EPIC.
voyager
2 years ago |The press release has been leaked with sample photos!
http://bit.ly/zBcR6G
Matthias
2 years ago |Thanks, now I go sleeping an looking forward for more pics
Jim
2 years ago |To paraphrase what a Texas boot maker told me years ago, “it’s the hand” or the feel of the instrument (camera) that affects us individually and personally. I still think Nikon D series bodies have the edge. While I truly hate the feel of the new G lenses. I just sold a ton of new Nikons literally yesterday. Sticking with Canon and Hasselblad going forward.
The toy NEX-7 and the coming Fuji X PRO 1 are a walkabout hoot but just not good enough or appropriate for daily work. But fun.
The 36 MP Sony/Nikon sensor holds no real fascination or interest compared to MF which has topped out at 80MP for a year or more. And video is now professionally owned by Canon. Totally. Nikon video RIP.
And, remember, no client cares whatsoever for megapixel counts. Zero.
TheEye
2 years ago |http://www.olympus.com.au/Learn—Explore/Blog/Olympus-Blog/February-2012/The-Beginning-of-the-New–OM-D-Create-Your-Own-Wor.aspx
mlbizzle
2 years ago |http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yutTntpDhE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
andrezao
2 years ago |http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yutTntpDhE
mlbizzle
2 years ago |I am buying this. No question!
Ikse
2 years ago |http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/07/olympus-om-d-e-m5-micro-four-thirds-camera-preview-video/#continued
Rocky Pesik
2 years ago |Placed my pre order for the silver one!
Mat
2 years ago |I just pre-ordered my EM-5, but I voted for D800. When this sensor works with Nano lens, the result is amazing. I’m not biased and have to admit it. Here is the Cliff Mautner blog. (http://cliffmautner.typepad.com/) He is some samples of D800 pics. Look at the second image which was 100% cropped from the first one.
Larry
2 years ago |Ok so this new camera is pretty snazzy. What about the E dslr line? When will they release the next dslr and how will they incorporate some of this new technology into it? I’m not sure whether to get the OM5 or wait for the next E camera…..