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I have been told by dealers that the first batch of E-M5 cameras would arrive this week in Europe and Canada. As you can see the first UK store has two of them in Stock and sells them through [shoplink 30243 ebay]eBay UK (Click here to see the “buy now” auction)[/shoplink].
Again for my European readers: Today you can find a new stock of refurbished cameras at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket (Click here)[/shoplink]. And also a Four Thirds [shoplink 30244 ebay]Olympus E-M5 (Click here)[/shoplink].
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“Approximately US $1,733.39” That is ridiculous. I feel sorry for you folks across the pond who are actually paying that much for the camera.
Unfortunately, we do not have a choice (unless we wait for 1-2 years until the camera gets less expensive).
Might as well buy a cheap flight to NY, enjoy the trip, and buy the camera at BandH.
agree, but its also ridiculous to see how much alot of usa ebay sellers ask for shipping outside of usa.
Actually, the only respite is the free HLD grips you are eligible for when you buy the camera via the preorder, which as I understand costs $300 in itself.
This money buys a used 5dmkII
C’mon Amazon! Ship now!
Scroll down the Ebay ad and it says shipped from the UK but also says the seller Rocketronics is based in Hong Kong. I suspect that this means that the camera isn’t coming from a shipment to Olympus UK and may not qualify for the Olympus warranty that’s offered through Olympus UK. So what you have here is a grey market camera without a grey market discount!
the world wide warranty should be applied,but i am sure some countries do not honour it.
Good call to notice the Hong Kong base. Makes more sense that it comes from Hong Kong as Amazon UK has pushed its release date back. The smart thing to do would be to release it in the U.S., which is a major market. I think the next release will be U.S. and Canada, not the UK and Canada.
Mentioned in a dpreview forum threa is the idea from Colorfoto magazine, that with video the M5 only used 2-axis IBIS. For 2 axis the M5 would use accelerator sensors, no gyro, so no noise.
It would be absolutely chocking if the gyro implementation could make noise. Most consumer electronic gyros today are MEMS. Small spinning disks would be ridiculously expensive, no good at that scale, and if you could hear them, they would be metal dust in no time. your phone has gyros. Its not the gyros.
A bit off topic but…
I think Olympus should have just stuck with one name for this camera.
OM-D or EM-5. They should’ve just picked one and ran with it. Not both!
I agree with you – the name is too complicated although OM-D actually refers to the series like Pen and the model name is E-M5, but still it is a bit too long and a little confusing. It seems they had two parties supporting different names and simply couldn´t agree and came up with this compromise.
But speaking of names at least the name isn´t as utterly stupid and unimaginative as Fuji´s X-Pro1. Haircare products and toothbrushes are sold with “pro” prefix – NOT cameras. No camera maker would name some camera with “pro” especially when the question is about a “lifestyle” product as X-Pro1. An then the “X” …. Isn´t it enough that we have generation X, XBox, Maxx, X Games, X Files, Nex, GX, x-this and x-that…. how awfully boring and surprising lack of selfconfidence from such a fine company 🙁
Only say OM-D, if you talk by camera type, the is so the is mean from Olympus.
simple:
OM-5D
PEN-1D
PEN-1D Lite
etc.
There are some archaic people at Olympus. Same with the setting for Continuous + IBIS off: ON/OFF
OM-D is the series, while E-M5 is the actual model, with the “E” making the link to the (m)FT system. You could suggest they better name it the E-M series but then the link with the OM heritage would be less obvious.
At least “Olympus OM-D EM-5” does’t sound as tedious as “Canon EOS Rebel T3i”.
I’m going to wait until July and see if I can get an E-M5 from anywhere (probably Hong Kong or the USA) for under AU$1000 (AU$1 =US$1.03). Otherwise I will buy a GH-2 and wait until the E-M6 or E-M7 comes out!
The E-M6 and E-M7 will also be to expensive for you if the E-M5 is.
the word “wait” is prob the most used here in the forum 😉
And also a Four Thirds Olympus E-M5 (Click here).
Admin, you mean E-5.
No wonder UK people business trip to Taiwan often ask where to buy cameras.
Eos Epl1 mk 2 at a premium
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