A bit surprising but true: The Black E-M5II is already in Stock via Cardinal at Amazon US (Click here). UPDATE: Also the Silver E-M5II is in Stock at Amazon (Click here).
A bit surprising but true: The Black E-M5II is already in Stock via Cardinal at Amazon US (Click here). UPDATE: Also the Silver E-M5II is in Stock at Amazon (Click here).
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Cardinal Camera does NOT have the camera in stock. It is simply a pre-order. I contacted the seller and he told me they would have them in next week but there was no guarantee I would get one.
Admin does this often, a little fact checking would be good:) First clue was the ship date.
Yeah, the bozo on here claiming that 4k and other video features were coming to the E-M1 comes to mind.
Agree, Seems like if the rumors were not true then Olympus used this to push sales which would be sad if true.
Reminder of all the rumor list of firmware improvements for E-M1 and so far only a few things were true. Also though the list below it was rumored to be confirmed by 2 Olympus insiders that they had to only fix a few bugs to release this firmware? Granted, these things could still be coming to the E-M1.
Higher Bitrate (similar to the GH4, also for the 1080p
Slow motion mode at 240fps and 120fps
Framerate control (24p,25p,30p,50p,60p, including the slow motion one)
4K + the usual FullHD, HD recording mode (IS compatible) 24 and 30p and other modes.
Motion Film (whatever this is)
New codec (Panasonic patent, AVC-I-U)
New S-log mode for cinema grading
Updated Colour Creator
FullHD 4:2:2 in MJPEG mode too
Uncompressed HDMI with 4K support
More manual control during recording mode
Better mic control
UHS-2 support (improvement of the UHS support)
Improvement of the Wifi control (including a live control)
A lot of picture improvement and art filter update (composite, etc…)
E-M1 firmware upgrade will also add the new “Keystoning” feature
There is a new New O.I. Share app coming as well
Must be one of the factory workers selling them right off the assembly line 😉
For that price, why should someone even consider buying E-M1?
Ergonomics and PDAF. Besides that (the E-M5II) is pretty much equal or better than the E-M1.
Ergonomics not there as benefit for E-M1 when you add the grip to E-M5 II. That is the benefit as addon, you can get the E-M5 smaller when needed, and add the grip if needed better ergonomics (IMHO, E-M1 has best ergonomics I have ever experienced on any -2014 camera).
And PDAF is not really benefit, yet. Lets see after 3.0 firmware what the C-AF improvement does. Instead CDAF+PDAF combination going only to PDAF focusing and 6.5 -> 9 fps can be enough to make E-M1 much better in situations where C-AF is required. Now E-M1 tracks subject with PDAF and then use CDAF to do the final focus, slowing down and causing misfocuses if subject speed is radically changed. If there comes 30% speed improvements to C-AF, its huge and place E-M1 to NIkon D4s / Canon 1D level.
So if you are not for sports, you don’t dislike articulated screen, you don’t own 4/3 objectives (and not going to buy Pro line objectives), there is nothing in E-M1.
So E-M1 seems to come niche camera for those m4/3 shooters who need sports camera. And very few really needs such.
The smaller is the sensor the more light you will need 😉
Pentax moved to FF, what does Panalympus wait for? They could make an alternative to Canon APS-H sensor if FF sensor is too common for them
Lens size.
In some years many will learn that FF is not needed.
Your right. Medium Format is needed.
I do not suffer from your illness.
All about math: Why this obsession with FF? FF benefits from the great fortune of marketing in that the name “full frame” implies the best or most complete, and that all other sensor sizes are inadequate.
But if you want larger sensors, then why not MF? Why not even larger than that?
There are already some great vendors satisfying the needs of the FF market with some great products. No need for Oly to get involved. FF would just be more expensive, and as others have noted, the system would demand larger sized lenses.
And it’s not like the market for FF is all that large; it’s not. And it’s not like Sony is killing it with sales of their mirrorless FF offerings. It would be a costly gamble for Oly to try the FF market. Better they focus on perfecting their m4/3 product line.
Wrong. Larger sensors do not require larger lenses. Of course, one needs to understand lens equivalence first.
Someone needs to understand “Field of View” and “Final Print Magnification” first.
There is no equivalence…
Just some thoughts:
35mm is just a hyperbole for many. Like seriously, very few really really needs or benefits from 35mm format.
The most used format is APS-C, aka “Half-Frame”. That is the new standard on system cameras. In fact, the true standard today is 4.8 mm x 6.1 mm (29.3 mm2) 1/3″ sensor. That is in iPhone 6, Lumia 925 etc. It is usually around 1/3.2″ size.
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2013/RainyDayPhotography/iPhonePhotography/Future/SensorSizesBig.jpg
Those are the most commonly used sizes. We need to understand that the 1/3″ or 1/23″ sensor as the standard, aka format factor 1. Everything bigger than that, needs to be divided.
Isn’t it the standard the most popular one, de-facto one?
35mm format is no where near the quality, usage or requirements where the smartphones cameras sensor are, or even pocket cameras sensor are. Even m4/3 is beating 35mm in every of those areas the 35mm sensor.
Like lets use the flickr as the metering source. What is the most common camera on web?
1. Apple iPhone 5s
2. Apple iPhone 5
3. Samsung Galaxy S4
4. Galaxy S5
5. Apple iPhone 6
So…. in Top 5 we have 3 Apple iPhones, and two Samsung Galaxys.
Where is the 35mm format? Where? Can someone point out how the 35mm is in the Top 5?
If someone talks about quality and 35mm sensor, he is idiot because it is no where near the quality that PhaseOne IQ180 delivers with 80Mpix and sensor size of 53,7×40.4mm.
For pixel peeper who have very serious GAS, it is very hard fact to ignore (but they still do) that their precious “Full Frame” is NOTHING compared to TRUE DIGITAL CAMERA, a king of digital cameras, a MEDIUM FORMAT!
35mm sensor has the crop factor of 2.5x!
35mm sensor is even WORSE to MF than m4/3 is to 35mm. Yet the every idiotic person is there claiming that 2x format factor is terrible nah nah nah…
While those idiots are just terrified about their sensor being 2.5 crop factor.
Heck, even the IQ180 has larger pixel pitch than any Canon/Nikon top dogs.
And lets talk about the True Format, large formats. 192Mpix, true color (sensor sub-pixel shift for that), 48-bit (16-bit per channel), over 1 Gibibyte DNG filesizes per frame…
Everyone who even talks about 35mm being “Full Frame” and delivering best quality, are just idiots.
Every digital camera these days use full frame if its not multi-aspect ratio sensor.
Or we can just drop spreading the Canon and Nikon (and now Sony) propaganda about how “35mm is the perfect one”. That format does not deliver any better photos than other formats. When it comes to top quality, its far behind medium / large format levels. When it comes to portability, it is far from 4/3 format, or smartphones. When it comes to get the moments and situations captured as good memories, far far behind smartphones.
When it comes to sports, it is just half a step a head m4/3, but just that and m4/3 is getting just better, while 35mm isn’t as DSLR form, size and weight.
Why? Cameras quality changes, but the “final print” doesn’t. People watch photos from uncalibrated displays, small displays, mobile devices, printed on recycled newspaper pages, printed at home with non-calibrated inkjet printers.
All that talk about ultimate quality is nothing if you can’t deliver that ultimate quality in final print, and even have someone to see it. No one cares if you can shoot better test charts or get 36/50Mpix photos from your running kids or millionth time taken sunset.
If I want to see great photos, I can watch almost any photo taken in last century and they can be awesome no matter they were taken on “so bad cameras” that any “full frame” idiot would not even recognize is a camera.
Olympus use full frame in all their bodies. Panasonic use full frame most of their cameras but in some of their cameras they have multi-ratio sensor so you can’t never use full frame.
Amazon does not have the camera in stock. admin I love ya man but please correct this! 😉
Knock 600 bucks off the price and we can talk.
Yes, $600 off from E-M1 and it will sell well. E-M5 II killing E-M1 and E-M1 has higher price than E-M5 II. Seriously?
What?
already on sale from a Malaysian online seller since a few days ago
another wrong ‘fake’ news from admin just to get klicks and money, pathetic. it is nowhere in stock.
“This product has not yet been released.” Thanks Admin. LOL