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Olympus Japan released a new firmware update for the E-P5 that modifies the transfer mode settings for [shoplink 40829 ebay]Eye-Fi cards[/shoplink]. There is not other fix or improvement coming along the update.
There is also a new review written by ThePhoBlographer: “Olympus’s EP5 is their best Pen camera yet…by no means is this a bad camera. In fact, it’s a rather exceptional one. But it could have gone a tad further.”
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The “thephoblographer” review states that;
“Another problem that we saw is that peaking didn’t work with non-coupled lenses: such as my trusty Voigtlander 17.5mm F0.95.”
But as has been discussed on this forum and others this is not true, focus peaking on the E-P5 does work with all lenses, it just has to be activated by assigning it to a Fn button. As a non electrically coupled lens has no way to communicate with the camera that you are turning the focus dial.
Panny vs Oly… Oly vs Panny.
The REAL winner: Sony.
Panny vs Oly… Oly vs Panny.
vs Sony.
The REAL winner: Blackmagic Design 😉
#flamewar
… come on, we all know the real winner in a fight between Panny & Oly is:
FUJIFILM
😉
yeah,for OM-D and GH-3 but now pany use their sensor may is not sony,
maybe fuji
next new OMD vs GX7 or end of year pany has new Pro-M4/3
You are neglecting the fact that Matsushita is also a semiconductor firm.
Let’s see what Sony has to offer in a few weeks. I don’t see how sony is winning in mirrorless, when all companies have hard times.
Does the firmware add an integrated viewfinder? (I kid, I kid!)
+1 !!!
Bets in when the ep6 will be released? Mid 2014 anyone?
Fantastic, feature rich firmware. As always
A couple of years ago, Olympus used to be more progressive and customer-friendly in their firmware update policy. For example, they added mirror lockup to the E-300 and image stablization for manual focus lenses to the E-510. Today, Fuji acts similarly. Their X-system cameras have already been massively enhanced by several fimrware updates. Besides severe improvements of existing functionality, one of the added features has been focus peaking.
Why does Olympus notoriously refuse to update even their only full-featured mirrorless flagship product, the E-M5, with features like focus peaking or the much improved AF field-size selection method of the latest models? Come on, it’s not as if it would need much more than a couple of lines of code which have already been written for existing firmwares.
Shall dof aps-c and ff wins m43. Way back
“But it also packs other crazy features such as…”
Minus the focus peaking, interval shooting and wifi, he makes it sound like the OM-D doesn’t have these all these “crazy” features.
The updated firmware is 1.2. When was version 1.1 released? My E-P5 still has 1.0.
While you were sleeping? 😉
Maybe 1.1 included something they didn’t want to admit to & are only willing to show what they have under the 1.2 update. 😉
I just found out that the EVF for the E-P5 (VF-4) is much better than the EVF of the GX7. The VF-4 has a 2.36MP rating and the EVF on the GX7 is around 2.76MP (920K x 3). Plus, visually the VF-4’s EVF is larger than the one on the GX-7.
I didn’t think Panasonic would fudge the numbers on the EVF. :/
I don’t understand your comment. The VF-4 and GX7 viewfinders are both 2.3MP and 1024xRGBx768 are they not?
Please note that the GX7 EVF is 2764K-dot *equivalent*. Since it’s using the field sequential system, it only has 921K dots in total. Colors are cycled through the same dots, so it does not need separate dots for each base color.
Also from The Phoblographer: Informal High ISO Comparison: Panasonic GH3 vs Olympus OMD EM5 vs Olympus EP5:
http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/08/08/informal-high-iso-comparison-panasonic-gh3-vs-olympus-omd-em5-vs-olympus-ep5/
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