Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Firmware 2.0 Flat Profile for Video
Lot of E-Pl7 and OMD cameras for sale in Europe at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Gold Box deal on the E-PL6 at Amazon Germany (Click here).
The working photographer’s go-to zooms – M.Zuiko 12-40mm vs. Lumix 12-35mm (Mirrorlessons).
Phil Gould Photography has posted an image on Twitter showing the Panasonic 100-400 mm prototype next to the Panasonic 35-100 and Canon 70-200 lenses for size comparison.
Teemu: “I took some great footage in Koh Samet island in Thailand. Time-lapse was done with OMD Em5 mark2 and some footage with GH4. The aerial shots was done with Phantom 3. https://vimeo.com/147926780”
Lior: “The Panasonic G7 is a great little camera for 4K video. Here you can watch a video I shot in the south part of Tel Aviv city, during the evening and sitting in a pub. Uploaded to Youtube in 4K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PD8C6xvKrM”
Johannes: “A Little And A Lot – Johannes Kotschy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLJlGX0lA8“
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its not a flat! its useless thing untill Olympus makes own v-log like panasonic did.
I have to agree… there’s nothing all that flat about it. It’s at most mildly muted. I would hope that you can do some additional curve adjustments on top of that profile, else it’s not really bringing us anything we couldn’t already do with contrast, saturation, and sharpness adjustments. This isn’t even flat to the extent that the Cinelike profiles were.
As far as Olympus bringing us their own log profile, I don’t see that happening any time soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if Oly and Pana have some agreement between them to ensure that each of them to have brand-specific targeting. Panasonic are the supreme video brand, while Olympus are stills-focused. Panasonic gives you a lot of features in an easy automated way, while Olympus gives you the same features with almost entirely user-controlled without much automation.
Maybe they do have such an agreement, but it would be a very stupid thing to do.
The demand for good video is growing, the demand for stills much less.
True, but agreements like that often have time limits on them, or can at least be re-negotiated. I imagine that if such an agreement exists, it was formed when the market looked different. Either way, given the trend towards video nowadays, it really benefits Panasonic more than it does Olympus.
Olympus’ practice of putting more power directly in the hands of the user where you have to actually deliberately setup a lot of controls just to make things work is something that could be postured as “pro-focused” and “premium”… Technically, playing a niche like that can actually be lucrative as long as you also sell a relationship to the customer the way premium brands do in every other industry… but that’s a hard sell with a small sensor system that is more limiting by nature. Especially with other brands like Fujifilm really playing up the classic controls and Nikon&Canon really offering the “proper” pro gear.
In any case, the fact that the E-M5ii at all exists suggests that Olympus is willing to get more serious on video, so I think that the situation might change.