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I got a short message from an anonymous sources saying “December 14th“. This should be the date Olympus may release the new [shoplink 29074]OMD E-M5[/shoplink] firmware update. May some other source can confirm this?
We have been told that the firmware should add several more options to the menu regarding EVF info and “one exciting feature that is sure to please users. 😉“. My guess as you know is that Olympus will add peaking mode. Let’s see if I am right!
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EUROPE E-M5 price drops:
E-M5 body for 877 at Amazon France and 12-50mm kit for 1.058 (Click here).
USA E-M5 price drops:
-$50 on the body only at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto (Click on store names to open the page).
-$50 on the body with 14-42mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
-$100 on the body with 12-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Same price drops on different auctions on eBay (to check here via Slidoo).
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A new art filter! 😉
‘Sparkle’ filter maybe…..
How about Saucy Mode?
Most likely or maybe the smaller focus points on the E-PL5 (I hope it would be optional in use though).
As far as updates are concerned, Olympus has updated the Oly Viewer 2 to version 1.42 to fix small issues with RAW conversion.
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/ov2/ov2_update_win.cfm
25p….please!
– 24/25p
– better Wi-Fi support (Eye-Fi, Thosiba Air and others) and Apps for all OS (WP7&8, Symbian, Android, iOS, Bada)
– better AF-C
– more movie codecs
– better panorama mode
– HDI modes
Here we go again. Peaking will be nice. So is better codec (or at least higher bitrate)
If Olympus is democracy I will vote like this:
First choice: Focus peking!
Second choice: In camera CA remove!!
+1000 for CA removing !
I vote for a firmware update that automagically drops the price by $200.
So good , furmware update again for OMD .
What about my poor GX ?
Someone need to write to Pana for 2rd firmware update .
I’m hoping for the banding-fix so I don’t have to sell my 20mm 1.7.
do you get banding even below ISO6400? With firmware 1.5?
if yes this is tremendous issue!
Hopefully Oly will fix this, should be the first on the list as 20mm is the most popular lens for the system.
otoh – they have their own lens, why help panasonic :/
The previous firmware updates were not supposed to fix the banding, at least not if what I read was correct at the time when the updates were first released! So I didn’t install them yet. I’m afraid I get banding even at iso 1250. Went to Disneyland paris recently and did quite some fireworks shots using the 20mm at iso1250-1600 – I didn’t dare to use even higher iso’s. On the retina Ipad I didn’t notice any banding at all – so at first I was really happy – until I came home and watched the photos on a non-retina screen using lightroom.
Just because the firmware update doesn’t fix your banding issue, it does fix other things, so why not update?
In particular as it says in the GH3 manual that the banding issue also exists with the GH3. So it definitely isn’t an Oly problem.
I have never noticed any banding in real-world shots I have taken with the OM-D and the 20/1.7.
+1
Any rumors on banding fix?
At ISO 6400 I have a lote of banding, at ISO 4000 is ok ( firmware 1.5).
I wish there was a way to control the sensitivity of the auto EVF function. Sometimes I choose to touch shoot and then the LCD goes blank before I could shoot. I have to be really careful to move my hand in a certain way to touch shoot, especially when the LCD is tilted. It’s been annoying me.
Olympus has never added extra features in firmware upgrades, never ever. They only fix bugs. Don’t hold your breath, sorry…
There’s a first time for everything……..
“Olympus has never added extra features in firmware upgrades, never ever. They only fix bugs. Don’t hold your breath, sorry…”
well on the last one they added the ability to zoom on 12mm or 50mm from the camera body configurable buttons… that is quite a new feature to me that I shoot underwater with such a lens. Actually I would love to see one of the configurable buttons to stay set at some custom setting rather than having to push the button to keep engaging it. To me that would fulfill a bit the fact that there are not custom modes on the mode dial like there is other cameras ( a very useful feature!) …
oh… and also would be nice:
1) faster switch from LED monitor to EVF
2) less eye distance to automatically engage EVF
3) better PANORAMA mode a la SONY … 🙂
Giving us 25p would be a bugfix. Since current video is not PAL-land-friendly.
That IS JUST NOT TRUE or you haven’t been lying around long enough.
Olympus has added IS to legacy glass on the E510 1.3 firmware update after they had raised it by ~1 stop on firmware 1.2.
But we needn’t go all that way back to find new features introduced with firmware upgrades. In fact we needn’t look further than the OM-D it self: http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/software_results.asp?id=1583&os=w
The E-3 got IS with legacy glass in a fw update too.
They recently added video IS for manual lenses. Or did they fix the bug that video IS didn’t work with manual lenses?
I shoot with Olympus since the E-1, so I know what I’m saying. All those firmware upgrades were just enabling some pre existing feature : adding IS to manual lenses, supressing the humming noise, adding new way of configuring some buttons are nice upgrades, but that’s not a completely NEW feature like a new movie codec or focus peaking or new panorama mode or whatever. Panasonic have done this with adding a new HBR video mode to the GH2, which was super nice. So I wouldn’t hold my breath about the EM-5 firmware upgrade. It would probably add some improvement to existing features, but a complete NEW feature… I am skeptical… But as someone said, there’s always a first time 🙂
– more video codecs
– CA correction (optinal, choice in menu) for lenses, specially for Panasonic lenses
– better auto-WB indoors
I don’t care about focus peaking, all my lenses have AF. But better AF-C, and better AF in movies will be nice.
exactly – around 0.0001% of users care about focus peaking (those that have manual lenses)
having manual lens brings other disadvantages – you don’t have any electronic connection with the camera so:
– distortion isn’t fixed professionally (you need profile for lens – if available for m43 sensor crop to correct smaller circle (FF lens for example)!)
– don’t know what aperture you’ve shot at (thus can’t know how serious vignetting was for example to apply your other post-processing profiles)
– don’t see a focus point so need to spend ages looking for one for _each_ photo
– don’t see a shutter speed and unsure whether the focus was bad, handshake or speed
– can’t see exposure comp so you need to remember EACH photo how it looked like in reality and how you would like to have it – and why you altered exposure if you did it at all (for example for better shutt.speeds to later correct brightness or for better shadows detail to play with later on and save highlights from RAW)
– and so on and so forth – all visible with proper AF lenses
manual lenses are ‘fun’ but for bigger systems which also have much better support for them (APS-C lenses for NEX for example).
I still consider m43 a fun camera system to have with me all the time – manual lenses are joke – I have Leica 25mm F1.4 for £400 with AF, and Voigtlander is trying to sell me twice as heavy and big lens for 3 times a price with no autofocus for me to look cool? Or to gain insignificant 1/3 EV advantage?
please gimme a break – not a rant – my realistic point of view ppl
I want peaking or some other form of focusing assist for easier manual focusing in movie mode. The existing “key line” art filter is better than peaking for manual lenses, albeit a bit laggy.
The Voigtländer’s advantage is more than 1 EV but principally you are right. MF is fun but overrated 😉
Are you being serious? Manual Focus is over rated, there are many times when it is the only option for getting the subject correctly in focus.
Also, I can afford a manual 300/2.8 or 400/3.5 but not the Zuiko 300/2.8. Focus peaking would make using a lens like that a lot easier!
You actually see shutter speed and exposure compensation while using manual lenses! Speaking of a focus peaking, there is a kind of it in one of the art filters, so it will not really be a new feature.
Hey look, someone who can’t back up any of their opinions with factual evidence but insists on having a “realistic point of view”. Give me a break.
So… you need aperture info to see how bad vignetting is?
I use the 1.8/38mm pen FT and 15, 21 and 28mm Voigtlander lenses, I use focus magnification. I have used the artline focus method also. The focus magnifications is simpler if set up on the FN buttons. Its easy, compose, press FN2 twice (once if you leave it on) focus manually (I use 5X and I can half press the shoot button if I need IS) shoot on magnify or press FN2 to check composition and then shoot. Its very fast and very simple. I have had artline set up but I don’t use it, not accurate enough.
Most important: option to reduce size of spot focus region
Plus one.
Plus another one. I’m already spoiled by my E-PM2 in this regard.
plus another one! AF point size is way too big
I´d like to get the HDR-BKT-function of the E-PL5!!!!!!!!!
Not more, not less.
I would like a open RAW format that can have image adjustments applied to it and read by other raw software.
but focus peaking is also good. 🙂
1) size of AF point
2) auto WB in artifical light
3) HDR options
4) better cooperation with all types of SD with Wi-Fi (some competition has in-build Wi-Fi – Samsung, Panasonic, Nikon)
5) improvement AF-C
focus peaking is for systems without rich choice of lenses, eg. Sony NEX, not necessary for micro43 system
I just want more customizable Function(Fn) buttons and dials. One button zoom in mode and completely switch off image Stabilisation in chimping mode to save on battery. Customizing arrow buttons e.g. up + down for WB adjustments and left + right for ISO adjustments would be nice too.
Picture in picture zoom would be nice from the G3.
The new feature most likely will not be new! It will be something that another camera already has, and that can be added to the EM5.
I guess that means there will be smaller focus points such as in the EPL5 in the next firmware update.
And that would be very welcome in my opinion…
I expect we will see some of the new features from the E-PL5 and E-PM2 added to the E-M5. So don’t expect any video or peaking enhancements.
That’s my feeling too.
Even with Peaking and 25p this camera would still be way too expensive in germany…
…but we who will upgrade already have bought it 🙂
If there’s just one thing : size adjustable AF points.
It will be the pin point focus they promised when the EPL5 and EPM2 were announced – they already have it.
i think will be an improovement on AF targets configuration like EPL-5 and EPM2 cameras
the possibilities to reduce the target dimensions to increase the speed of the AF system.
I want just one thing. Focusing distance scale with calculated for a given aperture DOF. Easy to do via FW as focusing distance info is already encoded in EXIFs from OM-D, but reading them at home, on the computer is rather useless. It is the only serious improvement suitable for this serious camera. No need for other bells & whistles…
Sigh… admin! Stop getting our hopes up! We all know we’re not going to get anything like focus peaking. Maybe the OMD will be the first Oly cam to skip the automatic sensor cleaning process when you turn it on.
“Maybe the OMD will be the first Oly cam to skip the automatic sensor cleaning process when you turn it on.”
I’m sorry, but I think that would be the dumbest thing (& backward step) to implement. It is one of the strong points of Olympus DSLR & CSC cameras, to shake the dust off before turning on & especially after a lens change to keep the sensor clean.
huh? seriously?
so you spend around a grand on a camera that comes from the company that brought dust reduction where it is today and you want to undo progress and have your sensor more prone to dust?
wtf?
Do you even know what the sensor is and what it does? If so, you would realize how important this feature is…and what purpose would it serve? The start up time was improved with the 1.5 firmware release and is profoundly better than other cameras.
Come to think of it, the update for Olympus View just came out yesterday, I think. But it was a very minor update. This being the only changes:
Version 1.42
– The problem that some parameters could not be set correctly in RAW development processing has been fixed.
Of course there could be more in there like say getting ready for the new firmware or something.
Smaller focus points and 2 stop bracketing perhaps?
A black lens filter that makes silver turn to black? Something that fixes the crapy video that my point and shoot already supports? I can’t say I’m holding my breath since Olympus marketing is all about alienating new customers. Wake up Olympus or I will never buy another of your products, if you care:)
You make absolutely no sense. The OMD has been revered for pushing the system to new limits…and you’re complaining about such minuscule issues? And how can anyone even discern what you are talking about “the crappy video that my point and shoot supports” …. huh?
How is Olympus alienating new customers when this camera has had several updates which have only been improvements…
well. its the 14th and thus far no firmware update.
Still no firmware. The swedish site even lists 1.1 as the latest one, even though my camera has 1.5
Several weeks later and still no update. Way to get our hopes up. 🙁