Olympus OM-D E-M1 Demo Video from Jurek Ugarow on Vimeo.
There are many new E-M1 tests to link. First of all our reader Jurek made the video on top: “Here is a test video I did a few weeks back with an almost finished version(firmware 0.9) of the Olympus OM-D E-M1. Most of it was shot with the 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 ED M. Zuiko EZ and a few final shots with the Olympus 75mm f1.8 M. Zuiko Digital ED. All clips straight out of the camera.”
The video quality of the E-m1 is certainly not one of the strenghts. That said it’s goo enough for most of us. And here are all other new tests and reviews: E-M1 hands-on review at Ayton. E-M1 review at PCmag. Hands-on at DC.watch. E-M1 test by Thomas Leuthard. Test by Steve Huff. Size comaprison by TheAaronLoy. Praxistest by Photoscala. Video illustrations comparing AF speed with MFT and FT lenses on E-M1 and E-3 at Onfoto.ru.
That’s it for now. I am back working on Olympus rumors now. I am 100% sure there will be an announcement in October!
Preorder Links:
Olympus E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto, Amazon DE (via DL), Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL), WexUK, Topshot FI, CameraWorldUK.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO Lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, AmazonDE (viaDL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-40mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK and CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-50mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK, CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus EP-13 Eyecup for E-M1 at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus HLD-7 Battery Grip for E-M1 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LC-62D Metal Front Lens Cap for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LH-66 Lens Hood for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
84 Responses
mmmm !
Smaple is not impressed!. I know Oly doesn’t care Movie!.
I’d like to see body which has high bit rate movie with 12 bit color and 5 axis IBS.
I don’t mind panny or oly. Both of company cam make high bit rate with 5 axis.
Just Make it.
Jurek’s video drives home the power of the camera in motion.
I hope that Olympus could add the 24p and 60p frames in a firmware update.
Find it strange why do people keep insist on testing its weakness it against others? I’ll rather see more test focus on IQ, focus speeds with 43 lenses, C-AF tests, 1/8000 shutter speed tests to capture fast actions…. etc.
Because its a 1500 $ camera. The consumer has to wonder why a 1500 $ camera cant do what cameras half their price can.
Please name a $700 or under camera that can do *everything* that Olympus can do plus has 24P, 30P & 60P in a non-motion JPEG format.
To me, the clip looks “good enough for government work”… 😉
and the worst cameraman award goes to… 😀
The vast majority of people doing video with E-M1 will have had zero prior experience with video except what they can do with possibly, their cell phone.
Video is a different skill from still
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fail as all m43 just look canon going mf but this ? is just terrible a compkete joke in real terms camera for wannabes hipsters or asian girls
y r u @ 43?
Wannabe, hipster here. I own a 5D MKIII. It’s ironic, you see, because only a tiny percentage of people actually need a ridiculously large, heavy and expensive FF camera and glass, but since I’m a hipster I love the irony so it’s worth the inconvenience and cost. It goes well with my old timey bicycle and corn cob pipe.
Does trolling fill the empty hole mommy left in your heart?
Full Frame, you really ought learn how to spell. Instead of spending money on an expensive and heavy full frame camera you might consider investing you money on a spelling and grammar tutor. With regards your comment about Asian women. Are you a racist as well as a troll who can’t spell?
Full Frame, what is a “compkete joke”, anyway?
Go home, full frame, you are drunk.
What’s wrong with Asian girls? Many of them are quite hot IMHO.
I could care less about video. If I wanted a camcorder I’d go out and get one. I’m glad they focused on the stills, now just waiting to log in and see that it is in stock. Adorama & BH still say “early October” which is this upcoming week; here’s hoping it arrives over the next couple of weeks. If you hear any rumors or speculation about when the first ones will begin to show up please pass it along. BH lists October 4th still, here’s hoping.
Just to remove any troll bait, I was given the camera with no documentation, had two hours to figure things out and then about two and a half hours to shot stills and video. I’m a dedicated Panasonic GH user and that line has nothing to fear from this camera.
However, image stabilization is impressive, and for the photojournalist who needs some video, or a traveller, with the right lens the camera is very usable. And photo quality is outstanding.
So there……
Good to hear. How did they match up for stills quality, given the relatively short amount of time you had to use it?
As far as video goes, the GH2 & 3 provide outstanding value—I use both for business purposes. But nothing beats the liberation of shooting hand-held video than the Olympus.
Last year I shot a music video using the E-M5 and I don’t know if I could have done it with the GH2 & 3—hauling out tripods and sliders is not my idea of having fun. I don’t mind it if I’m shooting for dough, but not the personal stuff.
You can have a look here: http://youtu.be/NkLEg0la6kc
That video could have been done with any of a dozen P&S cameras it is nothing special
agree 5-axis IBIS trumps the fabled 24 fps for me, it’s what stops me buying a GH or BMPCC
Was it the auto focus or the IBIS causing that slightly nauseating back and forth movement during the video?
Yuck! Em1 video looks terrible (garbage). I’m going with the GX-1 to compliment my EM5.
The GX1 certainly will have to compliment the E-M5 🙂
Yuck Em1 video looks terrible (garbage). Guess i’m going with the Gx7 to compliment my OMD EM5.
Great, positive test by Thomas Leuthard. “The best m4/3 camera to date” to quote Steve Huff. MR (luinuous landscape) think the same. We have a winner here.
I had the change to test the em1 for 4 houres. Its a very nice camera. The video also is good enough for the average point and shooter. I could not find much diffrence in picture quality wit the em5. But for that matter its also good enough for the point and shooter. The pictures are not that good comparing to apsc fuji or sony. Thats the problem with the em1. The price is pro but the outcome is somewhat everage. This would be a good cam at around 600 euro.
Is this story like the time you said you were shooting with the d700 XE1 and EM5 simultaneously, but were never able to post any comparison shots?
Link to your blog or it didn’t happen.
Link to your birth certificate or you do not exist.
Shenkie you’re a pathetic troll….
By the way my wife and kids aslways say I’m below everage and therefour the EM1 is purfect fore me.
That’s strange. I had the use of an EM1 for a few hours and was amazed at how far ahead of cameras such as 6D and D800 in terms of build quality. The Fujis and NEX are even further behind. As you say the sensor is similar to the EM5 – so only a negligible difference to NEX with the advantage of high ISO to Fuji. Of course the far superior MFT glass (quality and quantity) easily outweigh this. Then there is the focus tracking and responsiveness (nil lag, huge buffer) which is way better than other mirrorless and probably worth the premium itself. Fuji and NEX don’t offer this (and weatherproof, ergonomics etc) at any price. A fantastic camera- not the cheapest, but a fair price.
I find that strange. Even with expensive glass on the em1 high iso shots where not that good. For example the xe1 with cheap kitlens was untouchable for the em1 in low and high iso. Em1 has faster focus and is weather proof indeed with one very expensive lens and one shitty kitlens. Ibis works not as good as ois. Size is almost the same. Em1 is really to expensive for the foto quality it dillivers. All those gadgets are nice but in the end its all about the output. And m43 can not match apsc or ff.
Well according to the independent reviewers as opposed to the fantasies of a fanboy .The D800
Is a very well built weather sealed camera with a 100% OVF,, class-leading image resolution ,Wide dynamic range Raw files,Consistently pleasing metering and white balance results,excellent ergonomics ,Outstanding high ISO performance in both JPEG and Raw files,DX, 1.2x and 5:4 crop modes,Dual SD/CF card slots,Ability to output uncompressed HD video etc. All with image quality that it will take years and years for mFT to to catch up with .
The E-M1 looks to be a sweet camera but keep it real guys.There are a number of critical areas that do not reach the spec I hoped for the RAW image quality is if anything at all only a tiny fraction of a stop better than the E-M5/E-P5/E-PL5/GH3.The battery life for a “pro” camera is poor, the lack of dual memory slot , the poor video
And according to real life yhe d800 costs twice as much without lenses that also cost twice as much. And according to the reviewers, unless you use the very best glass on it the outcome looks like sh*t. And also according to sensor testers the d800 is 1.62 stops ahead of the best m43s sensor, a bit less than 1.5 on the super new ones.
SO all in all mire than twice the money and more than twice the size and heft for 1.5 stops and access to 4 really good lenses so you can shoot your dog and some flower macros and post them reduced to 2mp on flickr and facebook? Yup thats some smart spending
We’ll need to wait for DxO, but it looks like the d800, which is currently king for DR, is only 1.1 ahead of the E-M1. Others like the 5DMark III may be behind the EM-1.
Why are the DxO results taking so long? Still waiting for E-M1 and DMC-GX7. They had advance copies for the E-M5, I thought.
“Why are the DxO results taking so long? Still waiting for E-M1 and DMC-GX7. They had advance copies for the E-M5, I thought.”
I downloaded the RAW files for the E-M1.GX7 and E-M5 from DPreview, imaging Resoucre ,Focus Numerique and tried them with LR,Olympus viewer and RAW Therapy .I broke my ankle so I have had more freetime than normal.At base the differences are insignificant, up to 3200 ISO they look within a quarter of a stop of each other above that I don’t care
Cool! Thanks! 🙂
Hope your ankle heals soon!
winner of ? better imaage thanna point and shoot? apart from the sponsored photogs wich pro use m43 ? none! yes outstanding image quality no! is a mediocre and very small sensor just comparable with nikon 1 or pentax q ohhh sorry iphone tooo
They say,
Life is a journey, not a race.
It is cumbersome to always be fighting;
With words so biting,
Always so alert,
Speaking without a trace of grace.
The Market is a mysterious thing.
No one knows what the future will bring.
The new ways will come,
As surely as the day,
And we’ll be gone when the final bells ring.
Canon fears FF is too small,
Fighting to have be the biggest of all.
Is the bigger the better?
Would *my* shots improve?
Here are my photos both wide and tall.
You tell me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/LeicaApostate/?details=1
For your reference:
http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/09/an-eos-canon-medium-format-system-cr1/
y r u @ 43 ?
FF, you sure have a big mouth. What are you, twelve? Are you any good with that full frame camera of yours? Does your mommy know you do this?
At Full frame. Why r u so full of hate against micro 4/3 users? Can’t stand the fact that a lot of photographers have switched from full frame to micro 4/3. Taking low light pics on full frame maybe good but that’s why u have to learn how to take proper pics in low light with whatever camera dumbass. Try to learn how to take better pics instead of bashing this forum.
Full Frame,
Not only what OlymPan says, but what makes you think that an m43 shooter only shoots with m43 cameras? There are many pros that love their Full Frame Nikons and Canons for studio work but opt for not only m43 but mirrorless cameras in general because of weight. The weight advantage that m43 has over the other mirrorless cameras is that the m43 specific lenses are much smaller, lighter, yet there are tons of super fast m43 lenses on the market. I’ve read some of your other posts and you quite often call m43 users “wannabes”. Want to be what?
I really wonder if you understand the basic principles of photography. I suspect you think you do but really don’t.
If you want to offer intelligent constructive criticism I highly recommend you improve your written skills. After that I recommend you stop the trolling and bashing others. No one will take you seriously going down this path you’re going.
I do wonder at what’s missing in people’s lives that they spend their valuable time trolling camera forums on the internet.
I’m a guitarist as well and the same thing happens on those forums as well. It is really something.
Pussies who cant compose with backgrounds
at least ff can shot in low light with out terrible noise \… oh and the CA ? iphone smaller and bettet
fed up with my heavy oil splattered sensor , misfiring focus and moire riddled soft video, no touch screen live view , to get to get grsat angles and about as stealthy as an elephant , good for studio portrait ,or for a can of beans or bunch of daffs . Too slow big and clunky for street photo , got me order in for EM1
You mean as opposed to the banding, the falling apart bodywork, the squint EVF , cracked LCD covers, the software corrected lenses that are pretty poor when looked at without software corrections or any of a dozen other problems that have been present in mFT.
There are no such thing as perfect mass produced products no matter what it is or who makes it.The D600 issue { no doubt exaggerated by trolls just as with the mFT issues}takes exactly 1 minute to fix. As for your nonsense about “Too slow big and clunky for street photo” regards anything bar static shots , DSLR wipes the floor with mFT in every AF regard. All the best street photographs have been taken by 35mm cameras.Street shooting is about as easy as it gets
You should wipe the floor of your verbal diarrhea.
@shenkie here the em5 cost650$ and like 500 second hand is many em5 and gh3 shure many ppl regret buy that
I was pretty disappointed until I hit the ‘HD” button. It is comparable to E-M5 video, which in the right hands, is pretty good video. There doesn’t seem to be too much of an increase in quality over the E-M5, however. The sound is about the same, too, but Olympus internal mics have always been mediocre, at best. I like a lot of the new features of the E-M1, but I think I’ll wait for an E-M5 successor before upgrading.
Dont want another brick-camera! I’ll keep my FF and will not look again until an m43 camera in small size/form relevant to its tiny sensor is released. I will keep trolling though 😉
Full Frame and Shenkie (if their not the same poster), are actually m43 fanboys. They have made up a strawman profile to try and discredit users of ff and aps-c cameras.
It’s like if I was a Panasonic fanboy and posted under a different name saying “oly rules. panny sucks, they should stick to making toasters” etc. The comments are so stupid that all they would do is make olympus users look like donkeys and make panny users feel even more secure in their decision.
Similarly, posts like ff and shenkie’s will never change anyone’s mind about why they chose m4/3 – but they discredit users of larger formats by portraying them (often unfairly) as inarticulate sheep who have been brainwashed by big marketing – in turn making m4/3 users feel even smarter for having made their own decision.
It’s a clever move by whoever is behind it, but it’s not necessary – each format has its own merits and no one should feel threatened by someone else’s choice.
were rich we got OIL !!!!!!!!!!!! and free cleaning kit
History of 4/3 still to be written: size of sensor was not made only for matters of cost, but for optimization of resolution across the frame, and telecentricity. Because of the earlier film Pens, Oly knew it had to provide lenses with TWICE THE RESOLUTION of 35 mm ones, and those film lenses still show the same high resolution today on m4/3.
So camera size was only one of the variables of optimization. Digital sensor dragged Oly down initially, but now it can be seen that all other things being equal, smaller sensor means faster processing, and so quicker AF, faster drive mode, multiple images, WYSIWYG – all this with no loss of per pixel sharpness in respect to 135mm – thanks to the outstanding optics.
There are some physical limits for smaller sensors, but *within those boundaries* you simply cannot tell the difference with larger sensors, except that for the same performance cameras will be twice as expensive – at least.
So if small size is a given for the success of m4/3, reasonable price is another – efficiency must be related to popular prices. I think I share this concern with Thom Hogan, lest m4/3 prices itself out as a viable system.
Meanwhile m4/3 is still sharper across the frame, and has less aberrations than 35mm.
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I have to give credit where it is due, and that was a very reasonable post.
nice post …you must have very good day today ! 😉
That’s the haloperidol talking!
I’ve had the chance to test the E-M1 in a shop yesterday evening. Bad light conditions and the FT 12-60 and 50-200 incl. EC14 didn’t focus perfectly but they did. The Oly rep said that it’s a preproduction cam. I’ve checked the firmware: 1.0. I wanted to test the focus peaking so he set it up. It worked with the 12-40 so I took the Voigtländer Nokton f0.95: no focus peaking 🙁 he couldn’t figure out why it doesn’t work.
This topic of focus peaking not working for non-Olympus lenses was raised by Robin Wong in his initial review of the PEN E-P5. It turned out it *is* possible to use focus peaking for non-Oly lenses on the E-P5, and Robin correcyed his first claim.
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I assume it is possible to use focus peaking on Voigtländer lenses with the E-M1, too. As long as you figure out the menu. 🙂
“correcyed”–>”corrected”… [stupid smartphone keyboard… Why don’t they make a full frame keyboard?]
I read somewhere that focus peaking would not work with a lens without electronic contacts to the camera (like the voigtländer?). Can someone tell if thats true?
no, but you must activate it manually with a button assignment
Thank you, I´m quite relieved now 🙂
I’d like to buy a cam that stands the test of time. Video will be needed for that.
I have a very good eye, and I am not judging the artistic merits of the tester. The video looked fine, and is perfectly fine for when my wife and I go to Europe next summer for a well-deserved holiday. I’m more interested in the stills quality of the E-M1, but the video aspect of this camera looks quite acceptable to me.
very boring video, like with photograsphy, you need an interestig concept to shoot good video. not details as frame or bit rate, they are secundary.
I really want to see the 5-axis image stabilization in the next Pen Lite/Pen Mini…
why full frame video got so much moire
full frame gives you free oil cleaning kit , you dont get that with mft
Deep in the archives of one of the reports is:
“The other big story is the 1-stop wider dynamic range, which, in other words, means that tonal qualities at ISO 3200 on the E-M5 will be somewhat similar to the E-M1 set to ISO 6400. This often translates to similar improvements in noise management”
This is what I read previously that the DR was in the 13-14 range. If it is 13.3 and not possible to see a difference of .2 -.3 this brings it well into the top 20 and close to the best 10cameras on the basis of this alone, yet alone all it’s other main advantages. This brings it to the same DR as the Leica M, NEX 7 etc.
Let’s see if DXO stalls in their release as they did last time because they couldn’t believe the E-M5’s results could be that good. It is only 1.1 behind the best camera for DR.
As yet I have not heard anything about colour depth in any reports.
I forgot to say, and better than any Canon which I find is pretty interesting. Fill me in please, why do Canon rate so poorly when it comes to DR
Some people keep mentioning that still cameras are not really made for video, and that you could get much better results with camcorders. This is kind of off topic, but which camcorders would you guys recommend?
No need for professional grade camera, but looking for something better than the EM1s sample above.
Correct me if needed,but i think no dedicated camcorder in this price range which has a similiar sensor size as the consumer class and semi-pro aps/mft stills cameras, which is one of the advantages if you really want film like creativity options.Other specs might be less then a dedicated camcorder, but those are mostly important if you need to be able to deliver broadcast conform formats.
I am no expert in this topic, but yes, I think you are correct about sensor size.
After seeing the EM1 video above, I’ve looked at some videos from other cameras and camcorders. I don’t know if it the codecs used in the still cameras, the compression or the bitrate, but sharpness seems a lot better in the camcorders (not counting the high end, PRO still cameras b/c of their much higher prices).
I also ran into the following post on DPReview:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52220754
Seems like I am not the only wondering about this…
I am quite disappointed in the images, mainly because of the noise characteristics. Noise levels are not too bad though not great, but the noise doesn’t look at all like film grain, more like reticulation which was an unwanted effect that could happen during film development, causing the emulsion to ‘ripple’. I wouldn’t be spending near £1500 for this camera based on these images.