Image courtesy: ePhotozine
ePhotozine (Click here) tested the E-M10 and gets the Editor’s choice award:
Image quality is impressive with bright saturated colours and excellent levels of detail. Built in image stabilisation helps get good shots in low light, as well as steadying videos recorded with the camera. Priced at £699 with the M.Zuiko 14-42 EZ power zoom lens, the camera is one of the smallest interchangeable lens cameras available with a built in electronic viewfinder, and well worth investing in.
P.S.: E-M10 sample gallery at Digitalcamerareview.
Store links for US and Europe:
Special page with all new products at Amazon.
E-M10 Black at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
E-M10 Silver at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
E-M10 with 14-42mm lens Black at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama , GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
E-M10 with 14-42mm lens Silver at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
25mm f/1.8 Black at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
25mm f/1.8 Silver at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
14-42mm Black at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
14-42mm Silver at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex UK, Amazon Germany.
Olympus SP-100 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
Olympus TG-850 iHS at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
Olympus ECG-1 Black Camera Grip for E-M10 at Amazon, Adorama.
Olympus 9mm f8.0 Fisheye Body Cap Lens at Adorama, GetOlympus. In EU at Wex Uk.
Olympus V321200BW000 Macro Converter MCON-P02 (Black) at Amazon,
29 Responses
The E-M10 is great, but I will never give up my legendary, weather-resistant E-M5.
I also have the E-M5 but this E-M10 is clearly better in so many ways that I would buy the E-M10 if I was to choose something now. Don’t give up the E-M5, as it can be the backup camera to the E-M10 when it is necessary to shoot in the rain etc, because in most normal situations, the E-M10 is better featured and more flexible and therefore the one I would use.
I was on the verge of getting an E-M10 too, everything looks good, but I would like to get the larger VF-4 equivalent. So I’m waiting to see what the E-M5 successor will be. Hopefully it gets the same VF as the E-M1 and the only difference will be no hybrid AF. But keep the smaller body.
I wish they would offer the power zoom as a kit here in North America.
Cameras are not worth investing in, they are a bad investment. The value declines preciptously. Plus all Olympus cams have crap video.
Olympus cams, though, if you want to speak generally, have great *still* images, which is what *I* buy a camera (as opposed to a camcorder) for. I recognize that a camera cannot be all things to all people, and that’s why I am perfectly happy to accept what you call crap video from Olympus (which, 3 years ago, would have been called wonderful video) and great pictures, as opposed to *wonderful video” from a Panasonic GH3 now (which, three years from now, will be called “crap video), and not so good stills.
One more thing. I have just come back from a trip. I took about 3,000 images with my e-m5, and a “crap” 40-150 Olympus lens, and then ran them through some crap DXO PRIME noise reduction (only took about a month on my i7 with 16GB RAM. These images are now WONDERFUL. Absolutely WONDERFUL. They’re much better than ones I had taken with my old Canon 5D Mark II.
Great Olympus E-M10 touch and try event at UK Photography show at the NEC today
Strange word: “Investing.” Investing is something that increases value. Tell that to someone who bought a Canon XT.
The REAL dolbydunn . . . I am posting this because a fraudulent “Dolbydunn” has posted insults at other polite forum users in my name.
60 + years old
Viet Nam Vet – USNavy – LSD 32
Camera repairman 1972-1978
Automotive Tool & Die Maker – 30 years – CAD/CAM programmer for 20 years.
I have built some of the biggest dies in the world, repaired some of finest cameras of the 60’s & 70’s.
Retired
I try to converse here because I had hoped to enjoy the company of like-minded camera lovers.
I always endeavor to be scrupulously honest.
I would NEVER post anything obscene, or malicious toward another polite forum user.
I don’t judge people by their camera, OR their lenses. (shouldn’t have to say that amongst adults)
I have owned and used so many cameras over the past 42 years that I am too old to be emotionally married to a camera or camera company.
I am not a professional photographer/videographer nor have I ever claimed to be.
I earnestly attempt to post as a player not a Know-it-all.
However, I am not a know-nothing . . . nor a LIAR, and I won’t be treated as such.
Full Disclosure: (as if it means anything), GH3, GX7, GM1, LX7, P12-35, P 25, O45, P20 (only posted this for those who really need it). I also post as El Diablow when the devil gets the best of me. 😉
I love cameras, photography, videography, music etc. I’m delighted with the m4/3 cameras and to be associated, however tenuously, with the fine folks on this forum. If I have offended anyone here . . . . (other than our resident TROLL), . . . I humbly apologize.
As to our resident TROLL who, just this morning, posted the most vicious, filthy, slurs against my Mother . . . unimaginable, sickening insults! Tomorrow is my Mother’s 82 birthday, she is completely bedridden and frail. Words cannot describe my feelings about that post.
THANKS again, admin – mod for removing that trash. God bless you, Sir.
We have ONE Flaming jerk here who is posting as 50 different users per day, ALWAYS trying to insult everyone he spits his posts at. He logs on as other nit-wits and congratulates himself. Because I log in as a guest, he logs in (using my username) and posts, nasty comments at other forum users. *Nelson*, I am so sorry that you were dragged into this. I did not even see your post until I saw that a fraudulent “Dolbydunn” had insulted you.
I have too much self-respect to visit a forum where a malicious thug may insult others in my name and spew blood-slanders against my mother. I suspect many have been offended by this cretin in just the past week. He is doing his best (usually by conflating your user name into a form of ridicule and then hurling insults while hiding behind a concocted version of your user name).
That fact right there is enough to drive most respectable people away. This jack-ass doesn’t care about your respectability, he is on a mission. This is one of the very few fora where a free flow of information about our poorly marketed, invisible m4/3 cameras can take place . . . the disrupter knows that. If he can turn this forum into a sewer (like his own mind), he can effectively shut it down. Just ONE punk.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their forum.
There are MANY here who are far more intelligent than me. I have tried to give Joe”proper camera” a few tips about “proper” forum etiquette and showing respect for others. I am standing virtually alone.
Yes, I am tough. You might say battle-hardened. I don’t suffer fools graciously. I HATE LIARS. I can’t tolerate gross, ugly unfairness. I DO NOT VISIT THE FORUM TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING. However, I can’t stand to see this malicious little thug insult so many of you. I am retired and I watch real close: to see what the great camera boffins of the m4/3 format have coming, and to see who Joe”proper” has insulted latest while posting as me.
I have come to the conclusion that if we can’t control this forum it is toast.
Disqus certainly hasn’t done us much good, it is obviously out of their control.
If nobody here wants to confront a 20 something-ill mannered punk, I guess that makes Joe”proper camera” the Sheriff.
Here are the choices:
1. Allow ONE PUNK to set a gutter level standard for propriety on this forum.
2. Return to the previous system of user login.
3. Disqus could lock down the forum and require authenticated login – with all the attendant data privacy concerns. Resulting surely in the loss of many voices, and a more stilted conversation.
4. Turn it over to another outfit for policing – (and all the baggage attendant thereto).
5. Stand up for our forum and give no ground to such an obvious disrupter.
I’ve said more than I should. With spring coming most of us will be out taking pictures – Joe”proper” will own the place. I don’t have to fight this out alone, I can leave, quit running interference, and let you guys pick up the slack.
One more thing. I have been appealing to the admin – mod . . all day to remove the offensive post (made under a slightly altered version of my username) directed at * Nelson *. I am asking once again. It is NOT acceptable to allow this unjust post to stand. Remove it, please.
For what it’s worth – I’m sorry to hear that such silly (insulting) impersonation is going on here, and that you were the victim of it.
Keep your spirits up.
I’m always posting as anonymous guest, just because I don’t feel like having one more username and one more password out there – and don’t think “who I am” has much to do with what I think about camera’s.
Reading this, I’ll think twice before taking on a username and trying to be more vocal.
I have read plenty of your posts and find no objection. You don’t change your user name with each new post or post under other users names, or spew a torrent of filth at everyone you disagree with.
And you are NOT the one who trashed my Mother for her birthday. I don’t have ANY problems with anonymous posts, but no one here is going to slander and trash my mother with impunity.
You must be the real Dolby Dunn as you are the only one I’ve ever seen post in here!!!
Oh come now, a man of your valor, of your experience. We all love you and the things you have done for our small but rich community. It’s people like you who keep us afloat. The internet is full of jokers, just don’t give if you cannot take, and you will live happily.
Thanks again for the amazing things you do for us, I couldn’t be happier with you.
At least I have served. One so cowardly as yourself has obviously never served.
Let me explain a little something to you. My generation fought TWO wars during the Viet-Nam era. The actual Viet-Nam war, (into which I was drafted), after that we had to fight a 2nd war on the home-front AGAINST the Draft. After being forced into such a bloody, stupid, senseless war, we fought like Hell at home to make sure our sons were not forced into a similar deadly folly. You are a direct beneficiary of that valiant movement by war weary soldiers to ensure that your generation wouldn’t be forced (drafted) into another Hell-Hole like Viet-Nam.
Do you have any understanding or gratitude for the sacrifices made by Viet-Nam veterans for YOUR direct benefit?
Honestly, I hate to say this but in retrospect it might have been a mistake. Your generation is not very manly, a tour of duty in the military would have changed a lot you for the better.
You had better issue an apology for trashing my Mother.
Dolbydunn, I may have done some of that “trolling” that you found so offensive. I am sorry if I went too far. It’s just for the giggles and it should not go beyond a certain point. I apologize, but hey, also you have been pretty heavy at times. Cool?
If you are not the TROLL who trashed my mother for her birthday, I will accept your apology. If you ever post under this same name I will remember your contrition.
I will accept that I have been heavy at times, I’m not a light-stepper. If you think that I have falsely accused you, I am sorry.
Hope we’re cool.
Frankly, I’m just glad that Oly finally released any competition to the Panny Gx cameras. The fact that it checks lots of boxes to me is only icing on the cake. Basically it boils down to: cleaner RAWs of Sony sensor vs. better video of Panasonic. Both have place and I hope competition would brighten up the niche.
For an “entry-level OM-D”, it has quite the goods: WiFi, large evf, articulated touchscreen, IBIS, metal build, multiple dials, etc. It’s an attractive option for someone who is looking at low-mid DSLRs like a Canon T5i. That said, GX7 is not that much more expensive and it has pretty much the same features in an RF style body. Then there’s the cheaper Pany G6 that has pretty much the same features except IBIS and slightly lower IQ. Not to mention the (depreciated) weather sealed E-M5.
For me, it’s the E-M10 or the GX7. Either way, it’ll work with all the m4/3 lenses (more selection than other mirrorless), as well as the same flash system. I like that even the very cheap E-PL1 has multi-flash remote control built-in, where as you need to get a middle tier DSLR from Canikon to have that feature (and that FF is their priority). Then there’s Sony who can’t seem to decide on what hotshoe to use. It seems that this is what they meant by “worth investing in”.
“For me, it’s the E-M10 or the GX7.”
I have the same dilemma, but will probably go the GX7 way, which is slightly cheaper here. Besides, minimum ISO of 200, worse grip, timelapse, flash sync and video quality and no bounce flash also work against the Oly. OTOH M10 has bigger EVF, better IBIS and high ISO…
Neh, i am going for the 600 euro much better A6000.
Hi Viez’ Where’s Mr ALL CAPS, I think its time he showed up now.
Perhaps he’s finally happy with his new Fuji! 🙂 while Shenkie here above won’t ever buy a camera..
That’s some “entry level” at $700 just the body. A Canon DSLR can go out the door for almost $300 less with a kit zoom. Sell this at an equivalent price, Olympus, and they will fly out the door and you will be in the black for once.
True, but unfortunately it’s still a Canon.
“Investing” isn’t what one does when buying photo equipment. Reviewers are gasping for new terms to distinguish themselves?
About ‘investing’. There are two mentalities at work here. You spend a chunk of money for a device that is going to last you a long time. That is what I did with the E-M5.
Or you buy and sell a piece of technology that is going to last you some 6 months.
The E-M5 shutter is probably going to last 100,000 actuations, the E-M10, 30,000. For my use, Slow Photography, the word ‘investment’ has sense. For most it does not.
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The word is still not “investment.” The correct word is “value.” You must also consider how much it costs to fix a shutter.
Value as in a fuzzy logic formula involving the following variable :
personal need/desire for a specific good or service
Ability to appreciate the quality, difference.
Ability to stomach the cost
Alternatives available on the market and their respective worth.
If it was an exact science, we wouldn’t be having all those talk back flame wars! …then again… 😀