Jamie MacDonald got his package delivered by Olympus and it’s the new E-M5II. Watch the video!
More E-M5II news:
Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II review-in-progress (CameraLabs).
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Preview (Photographyblog).
E-M5II Unpacking at Pen And Tell.
E-M5II video test at Focus Numerique.
Pixel order of E-M5II High Resolution Mode (Dicahub).
Preorders (if you preorder through those links you will support 43rumors…thanks!):
E-M5II in Black at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-M5II in Silver at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-M5II In Europe at AmazonUK, Jessops, WexUK, Namencolor.
14-150mm II lens at Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
FL-LM3 Flash at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus ECG-2 External Metal Grip at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus HLD-6P Battery Grip at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
HLD-8g at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-P16 eyecup at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
HLD-8G and HLD-6P kit at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full leather case at Amazon, Adorama and GetOlympus.
Olympus PT-EP13 Underwater Housing at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus Stylus Tough TG-860 at Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
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Those knurled dials are a treat, looking forward to those on the E-M1 II
I think E-M1 has better as you can easily scroll around. The 60° angle is the thing
yes, the e-m1 already has excellent dials.
Good to see they have moved the strap lugs to the structure, should prevent the problem some people had where they pulled out of the body
I never really understand “unboxing” videos. Do people really care that much about what is inside the box? I would much rather see a video of someone that spent a week with the camera rather than someone that just got it in from UPS. There are a ton of unboxing videos for various products so I’m sure I’m in the minority for not liking these things.
Indeed, they’re overdone, one video per release is enough, although this is kinda justified since the packaging did change from the original EM5. That being said I wholeheartedly agree with you, people should register their review period instead of all this tiny fragmented videos, there’re not that many videos of people actually going out and using these cameras, I think it would be far more interesting to see the process of someone getting used to the camera and developing a workflow.
Klickbate… with enough viewers the camera already payed for itself.
Exactly.
Someone would have to pay me to watch that ugly beast.
I’m hoping you’re referring to the camera and are not so shallow as to discount something because of the way the person looks. 🙂
Having said that the video is pretty dreadful. It mainly consists of him saying things are ‘Super cool’ and ‘He’s pumped’
Personally I think it’s the nicest looking camera available apart from perhaps the Fuji X100 series..But I used Olympus OM cameras for over 25 years so am biased..
It’s certainly a lot nicer than the original E-M5 which looks a bit awkward.
It all started back in the early aughts… 2000 whatever… when Apple started releasing new products with amazingly designed packaging. I’ve been a consumer of cool stuff forever, but had never seen packaging done like it.
Seriously, the packaging was so beautifully done… the materials used, every piece was interlocking, like a jigsaw puzzle and each part exposed was beautifully displayed. Just unpacking the box felt like a discovery, an experience. The packaging was so inspired that people started posting still shots and videos.
Now it’s devolved into opening dull generic boxes of anything. I really don’t understand it, either.
Oh boy! Can’t wait! It’s like unboxing an EM5 but with a firmware update. YIPPIE!! Let’s do this!! Take my money!!! YAY YIPPIE DOO DA YIPPIE KI YI YEAH!!!!!
ahem… bigger evf, improved ibis, superior button layout, usable video?
Well. mark II means an upgrade version of the previous one. Hardware upgrade. And there is.. Better ibis, better processor, better EVF, better video, 40mpx still pictures, more buttons, mic, 1/16.000s shutter release. If was a new one, they call it in another way.
Sure, unboxing videos are overdone by now but in this case it’s justified, for starters the packaging is diferent from the original EM5 Mk I, that in itself should be enough but you’re also forgetting there’re numerous physical changes towards the camera body (buttons, menus, layout, grip, thumb rest, dials, switches, locks, etc…), this is not just an EM5 with new firmware, far from it. Besides, I don’t see anyone complaining about canikon videos even though their cameras are all the same black plastic blob with barely any new innovations per decade.
It has a new body, more buttons, better tactile feeling also, it seems. But I agree that these unboxing videos are just advs: Olympus send a camera to someone with a lot of “followers” on his site/youtube and everyone is happy.
Personally I think that a cool unboxing, such that of some years ago Apple products, could be interesting, even funny, to watch, given the fact that they looked like an origami, but this is simple and plain advertising. (See also the Bermuda “holiday” offered to some big bloggers, not necessary good photographers)
Is the omd em-5 Ii talky the only new product in micro four thirds that is shown at this year’s cp+? Isn’t Japan their most important market? Where is panasonic?
Admin: are there still announcements expected or is this it? Would be very disappointing.
I’m mainly interested in the 40mp performance with the pana 7-14mm. In the Cameralabs test we can see the first results.
For the 7mm shot the reviewer states: “This time I’m not sure there’s significantly greater detail in the 40M version, perhaps because of the resolution of the lens when closed to f8.”
As he compares two 100% views (different crops) the comparison is hard to make. I copied both in PS and scaled the 16mp up. The difference in resolution is there and is quite substantial. The same goes for the 14mm image.
So for architecture shots on a tripod with the Panasonic 7-14mm, the mkii looks very promising. 63MP raw should be even better.
The IBIS test at 7mm – 1.3sec handheld – looks good as well. So both for handheld and tripod shooting of architecture, this looks terrific!
Now let’s see if the purple blotch problem with this lens will be the same as with the other o-md cameras..
I’ve just compared the flickr files in PS rather than the crops. The 40mp 7-14mm files are certainly sharper, but there is way more purple fringing as well.
There’s no lens correction for pana lenses in oly bodies and vice versa, but that goes for the 16mp image as well. Or is purple fringing always more present with higher resolution?
From the drive to strive to make the effort to produce fine images, to the mere fondling of a mass produced consumer product. The striptease of an inanimate object that anyone can buy in a disturbing display of wasteful packaging, soon to be discarded, as though the process itself were pornworthy, is probably the ultimate external sign of the demise of the hobby. Worship of the device over the image is complete. If we can’t make good pictures, let’s at least diddle around with the device, totem toys being a now acceptable pastime.
It’s not exactly an everyday purchase so the packaging is not an issue.
I would certainly be upset if I went to a jewellers and bought a Rolex and they gave it to me in a brown paper bag.
And as pretty much any ‘serious camera’ nowadays will produce results that would have amazed people only twenty years ago, the manufacturers have to create objects that we desire rather than just for their utility, or go out of business.
Otherwise we’ll all keep on using the cameras we already have which already offer more than most of us need, and just buy a used replacement if it breaks
This reminds me of the late 1990’s when I was really into building computers. There was a lot of “gear worshiping” back then too. People would build these tricked out PC’s with all the latest top-notch components and then do little more than run benchmark tests on them; they would play the latest games not for enjoyment, but to see if they had the fastest “frame rates”. Component manufacturers were coming out with something new every six months to keep the vicious treadmill of constant upgrades going.
It really was all pretty self-indulgent and pointless, but the gear-heads enjoyed it. I kind of see that happening again with cameras. I see people salivating over features, but I wonder how many of them actually spend more time taking pictures instead of dwelling on stats?
Here’s a question. I get the attraction of being able to do multiple overlays to average away moire and refine resolution. Strangely incomplete example images found online compare the result to that of say a 36mp Nikon D810, revealing the pleasant results of the Olympus approach.
I get all that. But that is comparing the stacked images out of the Olympus with a single image out of the Nikon. If the photographer has the time and the subject that lends itself to multi-exposure stacking with the Olympus, then they have the time and subject to do multi-exposure stacking using the Nikon, right?
I agree that the Olympus conveniently does that in the camera, and that with the Nikon you’d have to do it yourself in photoshop. But once we start to stack multiple images, doesn’t the Nikon pull ahead, in resolution, in noise, in moire, in dynamic range, from the smaller sensored and smaller base-resolutioned Olympus?
I don’t think it’s the same: this Olympus way shifts the sensor for just a pixel (or half of that, can’t remember and it’s something for gearheads 😉 ), while the stacks you mention I think are referred to multiple shots stitched side by side.
Anyway, a lot of people are looking at that as a ground breaking feature, while in reality it seems to be very limited in use: no aperture wider than f8, still subjects (beware, no moving clouds in the sky either!), still camera on tripod: as Robin Wong wrote in his good review, even picking up his phonefrom the table where the camerawas standing ruined the shot: a micron was the movement caused by the vibration of his fingers touching the table, and that ruined the result).
The first four exposures are one pixel apart, so that you get one for each position on the Bayer filter. This gives you full colour information, which is the reason why you get fewer colour artifacts and less moiré.
Then the sensor shifts half a pixel vertically and horizontally, and proceeds to take four new exposures one pixel width apart from each other. This second set is offset by half a pixel compared to the first four. This makes it possible to increase the linear resolution, since the camera captures details that are smaller than one pixel.
Trick is you can’t do same with Nikon or canon. As you can only multi sample but all has same sub-pixels causing moire etc. While Olympus and Hasselblad shift each sub-pixel around so every subpixel has all colors like Sigma Foveon sensor.
And then it gets multi sampled for better sharpness, details and resolution.
Unboxing videos are just REALLY REALLY SAD. I can skip over all sorts of things that are not interesting to me personally but these unboxing videos are just pathetic and should be tucked away in a corner where only very sad little people go. I can’t stress strongly enough how mindless they are. Now I have to go outside and breathe deeply before coming back to read the interesting comments about using the 40mp feature with the 7-14 zoom.
And in majority of cases, the folks who do these presentations, qualify for hollywood job…… floor cleaning job to be specific
I just received my em5 mk2, silver. It is one handsome camera. Let me know if any of you got questions. I will try to answer them as much as I can.
Can you override the IBIS focal lenght on native lenses?
I can set focal length but it has no effect on m43 lens. The focal length setting will only take effect on manual lens.
This reviewer says you can override it:
https://johnbrawley.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/olympus-comes-in-from-the-filmmaking-wilderness/
“In both mode 1 and 2 you can override the default focal length setting which if it’s an Olympus lens is set automatically, and set your own focal length.”
The review and I are essentially saying the same thing. On native lenses, the focal length cannot be overridden (“which if it’s an Olympus lens is set automatically”). The own preset can only be used when the lenses are non m43 native, which is similar to previous OMD.
Ok, I read the review differently and got my hopes up 🙁 Thank you for checking!
So, no lens combo with the new EM5 in the US? 🙁
Seems Japan has the 12-50mm and 14-150mm lens combos…
Anyone knows What other countries or regions have lens combos?
Really interested in get one with the 12-50mm or 12-40mm.
Thanks
I have seen a 14-150 and 14-42 kits (and just body of course) available to preorder here in Finland.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to flip the screen 90° up like it was on the EM5? I mean not just by folding it out.
This could be an issue for Street Photographers because then the camera is a bit bigger and less nondescript.
Sorry for my bad english.