Comments on: Olympus E-M5 hack: Clean Hdmi 4:2:2 and focus peaking possible?

By: Joonas

Joonas — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:53:48 +0000

Soon? Eagerly waiting for someone to hack HDMI out for E-M5 as would hate to be forced to purchase another camera just for this.

By: Kaiser

Kaiser — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:42:21 +0000

Nothing?

By: Julius

Julius — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:05:31 +0000

Only uninformed people make such statements. The likes of you never seem to realize that it’s just a memory-chip containing some code that boots and can be copied in its entirety. Similarly: It can be reset 100%, error-free, back to the way it came out of the factory. Better yet; Even Olympus would not be able to tell if the camera has ever seen unofficial firmware on it.
Happens with smartphones all the time; People turn them ‘back to stock’ so they can get their warranty’s worth, even though they rooted their phones, flashed weird OS-es on them, overclocked, undervolted, you name it.

By: Julius

Julius — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:51:22 +0000

Well, I can assure you that my Samsung Galaxy S3 (thanks to Android being mostly opened up for my device) has A LOT of config for the video-recording part that is simply missing in my E-M5 (which genuinely SUCKS!). 30fps, why, Olympus, why leave out 24/25/50/60 and yes, even 120 fps?
In addition, the only bad thing about my current SGS3 OS is that it controls A LOT of heavy hardware, but lacks really good camera-hardware. Touch to (auto)focuss and shoot works faster on my SGS3 than on my E-M5.

So yeah, I’d rather have it be Android than this mess of an OS and horribly non-userfriendly menu-layout. By the way, power-usage is a much bigger issue in smartphones than it is in an OM-D E-M5, and android simply runs/starts services; If the E-M5 doesn’t require them, they’re not IN there (nor started or ever run). You’re really underestimating the humongous power of android code versus that of the tiny bunch of less experienced coders that try make an OS for custom hardware. I’d easily BET you €1000 that if Olympus would open their code up so that hardware can be spoken to by Android, it would be a MUCH less powerhungry OS in a few months time. You really have no idea what you’re writing about. Go check out the xda forums.

By: mistmal

mistmal — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:05:58 +0000

Any news on the progress of the e-m5 hack?