Belvilla’s Seasonal Inspiration: Summertime from Hugo Goudswaard on Vimeo.
Best 20 Pictures of 2013 and Stories Behind Them (Samudranil).
E-M1 is camera of the year at TheOnlinePhotographer.
TimeLapse-SunSet in Korea 2013″ from kooi-Park Kyoung Kyun at Dicahub.
Abstract work with the E-M1 at Sergiomuscat.com
Jon: “If you like, feel free to share my E-M1 gallery, all shot with the E-M1 and the 17mm f/1.8 and 12-40mm f/2.8. I’ve had the E-M1 for 2 weeks now and I’m extremely happy with it (I also have the D600 and X100S, just so you know where I’m coming from). Here’s the gallery: http://www.openbloom.com/CAMERAGEAR/Olympus-OMD-EM1-Gallery”
Tomek: “Olympus OM-D E-M1, E-M5, Live Time and… Christmas Time 😉 http://youtu.be/HAdXyQxk-j0”
Martin: “Not a rumor but I bet this is what all Panasonic video shooters would love to have: http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/218923/83767197.gif”
Nicholas: “The mounting plate of my M.Zuiko 12-40 PRO lens broke off, just as others have reported. Three of the four scores sheared. This happened while mounted on an E M-1(with Battery Holder) in a padded Lowe Pro Bag. The bag fell off a bed onto a heavily padded hotel carpet. It was such a minor fall that I didn’t even look inside the bag when it happened. I only realized the lens was damaged the next morning when I took the camera out of the bag.
I called Olympus and they acknowledged there was “an issue,” and assured me that warranty would cover the repair. Perhaps most troubling: The technician iI spoke with admitted that they do not have a fix. He encouraged me to keep checking the website for updated information.“
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Nicholas’ 12-40 story is terrible. Selfishly I am v. happy to stay with my primes, but it is reputation killing for a brand, and for a v. stupid fault.
Note however that I didn’t have any of the notorious teething problems to the E-M5. But it was 2nd hand, so I wonder if it went back to Maintenance.
I hope that the lesson helps. One cannot buy 1000 credits objects and accept this. Sturdiness must be an implicit deal.
Every company can make mistakes, and maybe it’s a problem of the manufacturer in China, who knows. For example I remember D7000 with problems with the sensor, or D600 with dust/oil problems. It’s not good for the reputation of a company, but I think in such a case it’s better to say that they acknowledge that there is “an issue,” then to say that there are no problems, like other companies in camera business did in the past.
The question is, is there an issue with all 12-40 or only with a part of them. I hope, Olympus will find that out soon and can fix the problem.
So what do we learn? Never ever buy a new product 😉
Amazing video (belvilla). Congratulations!
Givme some tips. What shuld I study/learn to make something like this, not comercial, for my family.
Thanks
Some good posts here, but the photos in Samudranil’s post were great!
couldn’t agree more!! 🙂
samudranil’s latest posts are awesome too! 🙂 Love the low light one! 😉 :
http://samudranil.in/blog/?id=71643644708
Nicholas: about your broken lens, stop whinning about the 12-40mm plastic. It’s a good you internet stoopid twat. Read about the lens rental guy, he will explain to you why you suck…
I always trust my car rental guy when it comes to automotive engineering and repairs.
@TheEye: Would you trust a mechanic to tell you about what he thinks about the build quality of the internals of cars? Given the amount of maintenance and repairs the lens rentals guys are doing, I think that is a fairer comparison. So far, in this whole issue, he’s been the main voice of reason. I also don’t think he ever said the Oly was well designed or has a serious flaw or not: just cleared up some other misconceptions that were floating around about other lenses.
@Gary: You’re a psychopath. Nicholas just told his story, with no whining at all. No matter what the lens rental guy said, it still doesn’t change the unfortunate thing that happened to Nicholas. Try having some empathy.
The voice of reason talked about “plastic mounts” and “metal mounts.” He did not talk, from what I’ve heard, talk about freestanding plastic (resin composite etc) screwposts that can obviously sheared/torqued-off with relative little laterally applied force, just like the three screwposts in the 12-60 that frequently shear off when the lens hood is removed. Then the front element falls out. Now we got a similar design on the rear bayonet of the 12-40.
Some say the screwposts are easily replaced. That’s false. The screwposts are part of the lens barrel casting. That means complete disassembly, replacement of the barrel, and reassembly by a qualified technician is required – in hopefully a clean room.
Admin, you really do have to more actively monitor posts and remove those that are clearly offensive or trolling. Not doing so cheapens this site.
Sorry, may I ask who is trolling?
Seriously? The trolls are evident in comments for almost all posts.
Admin, I agree with SteveO. By putting up with the trolls here you will drive away the people you wish to keep around. I know it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth for this site when I read the garbage you allow to be posted here.
What happened to Disqus? I know it was implemented for a very short while (hours?) a couple weeks ago. I even made an account just so I could post.
Likewise, I had to sign up to Disqus to use the site (for a short period) but will also have to add ‘I would have left the site with a bad taste from Disqus, it was little short of dreadful as far as I was concerned’.
Disqus is far from perfect. My main issue is that it’s a massive data mining operation. I already use different Disqus accounts for different places, because I don’t like being followed around. So I made another account for this place here, because admin has previously said he would install Disqus.
@TheEye
Petapixel uses disqus and it still gets trolled ( often by the same trolls that troll here), admin has bad words filter and no. of links checker etc and checks comments as often as they can, the only suggestions I can think of is IP ban and/or have assistance moderating comments….
IP bans are useless since anyone can use a proxy server.
Have a few authorized moderators. There are probably not many people that troll on a regular basis. If their comments continuously gets deleted within 3-4 hrs, they will tire of their games and move on to some other site.
+1 get rid of the vulgarians
Hi Nicholas!
We are quite a few with similar experiences on this forum thread: http://www.mu-43.com/showthread.php?t=56256 please drop by and tell your story and even more importantly, how it was resolved by Olympus.
Cheers!
Judging by this:
“The technician [I] spoke with admitted that they do not have a fix.”
they would simply provide a replacement.
The “Olympus” brand is on line, so IMO the best course of action for them, as soon as they have a permanent solution, is to go public and initiate a recall and/or announce a free repair program.
The 12-40 is a basic building block of the system and it’s expensive. Therefore Olympus should make an announcement, and a recall, if suitable.
I am sure that, lacking information, people are already refraining from buying. It is in the interest of everybody that timely action is needed. Serial numbers of lenses concerned should be circulated.
First they have to find out what the problem is, and also if all or only a part of the already produced lenses are affected. I don’t think they will find out that in a few days 😉
I have a stabilizer that is similar (3-axis) though it carries cameras up to approx nex 5n w/kit lens, not much more. It is very useful, and I only paid a few hundred on ebay for one.
I’ve read it before. Want’ it here?
This article was written in May ’13, very old story.
I also never think Mitsubishi disappear, because it belongs to the MIC. I suspect the write really knows about it.
BTW, but recent Sony-Olympus logistics alliance are very suspicious that Olymus will be merged (or acquired) by Sony. but Sony continues to loss the prefix over five years, Sony could not buy Olympus, just buy 51% stock, that result in continuing Olympus brand.