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Love it!!!

This is the camera I’ve been waiting for!

Pre-order now up on B&H!! $999.00 Body Only

It’s the real thing ! I love days like this………

Announcement is now on dpreview

@ admin, you have done a great job over the past few weeks on this launch, thanks. EM-5 looks good for me and rumours were pretty much accurate.

Well, so now we know what’s in the “hump” – it needs all that space for the EVF due to the diopter adjustment lens. The very front of the pyramid is just for design, but it’s only a few mm away from the EVF screen. Hopefully now all the “hump haters” can chill….

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Silver pre-order link

http://www.adorama.com/IOMEM5S.html?utm_term=Other&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Other&utm_source=rflaid63773

Oh dear… it’s so spectacular I’ll just have to buy one!!

Throw 24p in there and I’ll buy it in a heartbeat. Otherwise I guess it’ll stand alongside the X Pro1 as a camera that I’ll ogle at the camera store without buying one. I never imagined that the new Pentax mirrorless would end up being the better video camera. Oh well.

I wonder if Oly will release a similar spec in 4/3 line. They should consider to release E-xx/E-x with similar spec (with higher sensitivity in low light).

IR mentioned it has a very quiet shutter. It will be interesting to hear comparisons.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/omd-em5/omd-em5A.HTM

“When we first tried the E-M5, we noticed that the shutter sound was considerably quieter than the E-PM1 I’d brought along. Then we got out the Sony NEX-7 and put it in electronic first curtain mode, its quietest setting, and the E-M5 was quieter than that as well. Very impressive. The E-M5 is likely to be an excellent street camera.”

Just e-mailed Olympus N. America and Japan: Hopefully we can have some explanations/ clarifications/ thoughts. E-mail as follows.

Dear Olympus, I’ve held out hope for you since the e-300 in 2004, and thought the E-M5 would have been the day you became mainstream and adopted by many, but just like the let down of not releasing the futuristic E-3 Body design and not implementing video on the e-330, you’ve come up with the first of designs, but for some reason lacked what people are looking for.
The e-300 different viewfinder style, kind of neat, small and dark….but affordable. The camera that got me into video and a huge fan of DSLRs, couldn’t wait for video to take up this form.
The E-330, first live view DSlr, should have been able to record video. The articulating LCD screen was innovative, but not innovative enough to buy over an e-300.
The E-3, from the mockups I saw it had a curved battery grip, super cool, but you decided to go with the traditional square grip design…I have no idea why. You had almost 2 years from the E-330 to the E-3 to implement at least some form of video but didn’t. Lame.
The E-5. You had two years to at least match the 5D mkII video specs, but couldn’t come close and could only manage 1280 x 720 @ 30fps, compared to 24fps or 30fps @ 1920 x 1080 of the Canon 5DMKII.

Today you’ve released a let down of a camera, although the body is cool, and the 5 axis IS is way cool, you almost completely ignore the video aspect of this camera. While I don’t know the exact specs of this camera due to conflicting sources, I haven’t seen 24fps listed anywhere.
People like me who are in the video field know DSLRs are the way of the future and traditional camcorders are out. This is what you’ve missed in the video market. 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, 50fps, 60fps. Option of 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720 for all frame rates, along with record time limited to size of memory card, instead of avoiding European taxes by limiting recording lengths. The current videographers don’t want to use should mount cameras anymore, we know small cameras can beat the quality of the large cameras and are waiting on a company to set the standards of future video. Right now Canon probably has the video category pretty secure with Panasonic close behind, but you and Panasonic use the same mount, why not combine your forces to beat Canon in the video game? The M4/3 system has a smaller sensor than Canon. If you want to stick with the 4/3 sensors, which is fine with the upcoming Panasonic lenses, but the software side of your system needs to be pushed much further. Thanks to people like Vitaliy_Kiselev and the people working with him to hack the GH2 we can see the potential of the 4/3 system. Why aren’t they a part of PanOly? Users want to be able to customize their cameras, we aren’t stupid, we know there is more potential in the cameras than we are given.
I hope the implementation of 24fps is applied to the M5 before the official release. You have great ideas, but are almost always lacking with ideas, that while may be difficult to execute, seem like common sense steps from a consumers point of view.

I’m really not getting all the hump hate. It only looks big because the rest of the body is small. It’s only a tiny bit taller than the G3 or GH2.