UPDATE: I reapeat it hard and loud. The info comes via new source. For now trusted sources said they didn’t hear anything about any E-M1 4K firmware update.
Well, sometimes it happens that I get conflicting reports. While a trusted source said he didn’t hear about a possible 4K upgrade of the E-M1 the new source I am in touch with claims the exact opposite. The reason why I still consider the new source worth of my consideration is that I know with 100% certainty that he comes from the high end video world. So he is actually not anonymous to me 🙂
It’s not my intention to confuse you but this is a rumor site after all and what fun would it be without doubts, hopes and tension? After my post from yesterday that new source said to have more info to share. He said the firmware update for the E-M1 will be released next week and have those features:
“– Unlocked 4K recording (over 100mb/s in simple HD)
– Different frame recording mode including 24p/25p/50p/60p
– High speed recording frame FHD/HD (120p/240p) – Slow motion
– Motion Film
– Kinda of Cinema Grading Features (similar to Slog A7s and the one on the GH4)
– Like on the 4K recording (higher bitrate)
About the photo part. I don’t know exactly the name of this feature, but this feature will let you take picture without pressing any button on the camera when the sensor detect a movement, the camera will take many picture of it. Also another function about doubling a picture (picture over another picture)”
Like I said, take it with a grain of salt. I hope other sources can help me out on that matter. And if not well…in one week we will know the truth for sure 🙂
E-M1 Store Links:
Olympus E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto, Amazon DE (via DL), Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL), WexUK, Topshot FI, CameraWorldUK.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO Lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, AmazonDE (viaDL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-40mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK and CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-50mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK, CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus EP-13 Eyecup for E-M1 at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus HLD-7 Battery Grip for E-M1 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LC-62D Metal Front Lens Cap for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LH-66 Lens Hood for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
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The E-M5 has the double exposure option as standard – doesn’t the E-M1 have it too?
It does have it.
It has three means of multiple exposure –
1) A normal double exposure – two new shots
2) An overlay setting – combining an existing shot with the next new one
3) Using Edit Still Images Menu to overlay 2 or 3 RAW images in camera
Trap Focus? Nice!
I love a good academic dispute. A reason to get out of bed in the morning. It’s a shame it will be over before long.
Call it blasphemy but 4K or not, I hope there is still an option for recording low bitrate HD video. It’s good enough for my needs and quite economical in card space.
Well it would be great if it did have those features and it would certainly bring new interest to the camera by those who have been on the fence with the move to MFT. If true, it would be an exciting time for MTF not just for Oly but Panny as well. Some changes to focus peaking would also be great.
I’m only interested in focus peaking in video mode, but would accept 25p 😉
Critical moment for EM1 holders .
Sometime Yes sometime No .
Hopefully nobody strike in heart attack .
Still seems hard to believe that Olympus, known for ignoring all aspects of video, will be one of the few manufacturers to offer 4k, and the ONLY one to give its users 4k via firmware upgrade. I think I’m closer to believing your other source this time.
The other source also didn’t say the e-m1 would NOT have 4K.
Yes, I wonder if ‘this source’ has seen an E-M1 body with a new prototype motherboard in it for initial testing for a new model. But….. we shall see.
But Olympus is the last manufacturer to ad a 4K capable camera to their line so to me it makes sence that they whant to keep up.
Or they have just now figured out that their IBIS is actually good and would be popular if the video quality wasnt so bad.
Nikon doesn’t have a 4K camera and neither does Pentax, Leica or Hasselblad.
Neither does Nissan or Coca Cola, lets stick to brands that have at least a nugget of ambition in video.
Wow, you’re actually comparing competing imaging companies to those that sell automobiles and soft drinks. Nope, those other camera companies probably have the same ambition in video as Olympus does, and they are unlikely to offer 4k over firmware too.
No Im not, I made a joke since the thought of using a Nikon, Pentax, Leica or Hasselblad for video amused me, should have added a smiley 🙂
Olympus have always been really bad at video, thats the only reason I don’t own any digital Olympus cameras, but I have wished ever since the EM-5 was released that they would up their video a little since with the IBIS it could be a great C- or D-Cam.
So no, Im not a Olympus owner nor Hater just a regular camera dude, Sorry if I offended you as an Olympus Fan.
/Mattias
But if those companies should be excluded from consideration because they lack ambition in video, then the same goes for Olympus, since they never had such ambition, either. So your statement that Olympus is the last manufacturer to offer 4K is simply not true.
And about Nikon, they have been more ambitious than Olympus regarding video. Only Canon, Sony and Panasonic are more competent in the video field, among the stills camera manufacturers. Olympus, Fujifim, Ricoh/Pentax and Samsung are certainly behind them.
We are discussing in the context of this rumor that if true makes Olymous pretty ambitios.
Nikon.. Please.
I would be happy to buy the em1 if they only add 25p and higher bitrate.
no need for the 4k in the mass market for this generation, but given what was possible to do with the GH2 hack, if Olympus does something similar and officially support it they will earn my respect and loyalty for a very long time…
+1! I’ve heard the EVF is brilliant, and I’ve seen how epic the IBIS is. This camera would be such a valuable tool for me if only it had 25p and better codec. Olympus, my money is ready.
This certainly sounds like a huge update. While I’m sceptical, I am still carefully hopeful about this. It would kind of make sense when you think how lackluster E-M1 is when video is concerned. It seems like they just wanted more time to work on the video features, but didn’t want to wait with releasing the otherwise ready camera. Also about 4k, if the hardware is capable of it, there would be no reason not to add support to the flagship camera. It’s not like it would affect the sales of their higher range cameras.. 🙂 So it all depends if it is capable.
I doubt I would have much use for the new video features, but still welcome anything they throw this way!
I am skeptical too until I don’t see it for real 🙂
the tension is getting hotter
Any word of if you will finally be able to use the hdmi out to a monitor from use in video mode yet? They would have a fat guy doing flips if they fixed that issue.
will the EM10 with similar video upgrade follow ?
em10 video to be upgraded too mr 43rumors man?
Sold if true.
“Also another function about doubling a picture (picture over another picture)””
Maybe that’s a very rough way of describing Live Composite as in the E-M10.
I am thinking more about composition where you can point subjects you want to remove from photo, like stand still 10 seconds and then point yourself to be in frame and all other moving people are deleted from photo.
It looks like I will be taking my laptop computer with me when I leave for a 4 week road trip later this week. First week I will be with my wife and staying in a hotel. The next three weeks I will be camping in the mountains. I am planning on trying night sky photos. A firmware update with Live Time Composite would really be nice for this.
4k, over 100mbs at 24fps, 30fps, 60fps, 96fps, and 120fps, .mov at compressed H.265, and electronic shutter mode.
I know that’s a lot to ask for, but if I could get that in the E-M1 update my money fucking ready to be spent.
Motion detection like Canon? Cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksg78bteN7s&t=37s「will let you take picture without pressing any button on the camera when the sensor detect a movement, the camera will take many picture of it.」
Like canon, others has had it too before Canon. Even film cameras were possible for that with external release. All what it required was to attach a optical IR detector and point it to correct direction.
I have on next room a field case where I have now almost 40 years old motion releaser for OM-2. Exactly used for wildlife photography. Motor back to camera from where comes cable to IR light what has little electronics and it will detect movement (like shadows) or when beam is cut (reflector to other end).
And that could be set to digital cameras easily as long USB cable allows triggering the burst/single shot.
That is as well how long time ago timelapse was possible to do, as electronic clock could trigger camera to release shutter every minute/hour/day.
And it was not just motion or time, sound or vibration could be used as well, anything what electronically could be sensed.
@disqus_fUfvPB7etP:disqus thank you! Could you please recommend the motion releaser you use for wildland photography? Some devices like MIOPS as a laser receiver to trigger the shutter ( http://goo.gl/ehMQrz ) , it is inconvenient to set up all devices before shooting . The convenient method I thought for shooting animals more than 50m away maybe using build-in-firmware motion detection like canon’s because of applying long lens like 600mm or any others. The other method I thought is to use laser rangefinder ( http://goo.gl/ZWx1Ld ) , it has no need to set devices first just like build-in-firmware motion detection , but it seems no such kind of accessories for camera , if yes, it will be more convenient to shoot animals far far far away . But it should automatically turn off the laser point if sensoring a object to prevent from catching the red laser point.
I am wondering if the FW update will add pdaf for video. Simply adding the new video options makes this a worthwhile upgrade for me now.
If true, it is really really smart of Oly. I wish more manufacturers were updating the firmware, instead of pushing a completely new model with only cosmetic hardware changes.
Also, it would be smart if OIy would make a faux launch of the “E-M1.01”, specifically advertising the new firmware features. And all you need to get those exciting features, is just update your E-M1 firmware.
It just sounds too good to be true. However, IF Olympus can pull this of, that would be a big deal. That would send a clear message to users of professional Olympus gear, that they can rely on Olympus to provide incremental improvements and not being abandoned once the money changes hands.
Unfortunately, I don’t expect Olympus to even try the same for consumer grade cameras. So I’m not holding my breath for any significant upgrade to E-M10.
Olympus has changed a lot in few years. They have had negative signals to consumers and investors in business, but they have started to slim their product lines and started to release firmwares adding new features and fixing things, without requiring to buy new hardware.
If Olympus shows strong signal that they support old products as much possible, they get more customers.
Just like here if some people get their 4k and 24fps, they will get E-M1 for IBIS.
I have three features I wait, a live composite from E-M10, 25fps for 1080p and 120fps in 720p like E-P5 gets.
And then bunch of small fixes to current features like allow to see artificial level when the magnification box is visible.
Olympus really has nothing to lose by adding great video features, because they don’t do camcorders or professional video cameras. So I hope this is true, and they put pressure on Sony and Panasonic in the future.
They actually make i-Speed high speed video cameras for proffesional use. Mostly for ballistics, car industries and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gy-sb-XIcU
Thanks for sharing, that was fascinating to find out and look up!
I still doubt a bit that the current hardware could handle the processing of 4k material.
I have doubts too. For now I will stick to what the trusted source said…
doesn’t sound very true.
For realizing this, Olympus needs to deploy sensor readout circuitry + processor + hardware codec support up to the GH4 level in a body launched 6 month earlier than GH4.
Considering Panasonic’s vast experience in PRO video equipment, it is very hard to imagine Olympus, who does not have a noticeable video market share, has this capability and vision for video.
Maybe it’s designed with Sony’s help?
I agree, Olympus even stated that their focus was on still images on the E-M1. It would be surprising that the E-M1 has all the required hardware to bring about 4K.
But Olympus would do well to deliver 1080p 24 and 60 fps. I would upgrade my E-M5 to E-M1 if this feature were added in the firmware update.
Yep. Very unlikely that the E-M1 contains the necessarily hardware, and these things can not magically happen in software.
So 4k capable hardware didn’t come before Panasonic released their GH4, that they designed after E-M1 and designed components for it after E-M1 was released?
So no collaboration between Olympus and Panasonic about sensors etc? Do you know why Olympus chose to use Panasonic sensor in E-M1 instead Sony like in E-M5? Sony sensor would have made dark frame extraction in the sensor same time as exposing frame, removing need to do it after image exposure doubling the time.
Why did Olympus choose Panasonic sensor?
How it is possible that hackers have pulled 140Mbits bitrate from Panasonic GH2? Was GH2 releases after GH4?
Olympus said they focused to still photography. That doesn’t mean they didn’t count that camera is capable to allow them to focus for video too later and improve it simply adding new features.
We might see 4k end of the month or not.
You can “campain” all you want. E-M1 will never have 4k video. Hopefully it will get better controls, better bitrate and even slowmo on 720p. But 4k would be way too revolutionary, doubtful the hardware even supports it(and I’m not talking about the sensor..every sensor supports 4k resolution), and even if it does they will still put that on the next model.
Olympus does make professional video equipment, but for medical use. They definitely have the capability and vision, they just have made a choice to focus on still images in their regular cameras.
Olympus has as well experience from Pro level video, even higher than Panasonic as peoples lives depend from Olympus Pro level video.
How difficult it is to believe that there is a possibility that Olympus has added hardware to camera for later use? 4k didn’t arrive with Panasonic GH4. They use same or equivalent sensors. Question is, how good is Olympus CPU? We don’t really know.
We should not trust 4k comes, but we should not trust it will not come. Keep open mind and you don’t be dissapointed.
Lots Of today’s electronics are completed with software. If we can modify software, then we can optimize it.
If Olympus focus to still photography in E-M1, it doesn’t meant they will never focus to video later.
History is full of product releases where it was improved after release with software. Even Intel has released a CPU without required math calculation capability, only adding that feature with BIOS (firmware) update. A hardware functionality added with software….
Some smartphone can do (bad) 4K video nowadays… and Olympus said they would focus on video from now on cause there’s demande for it.
Releasing their 4K implementation in a fw is less risky for Olympus: maybe it won’t be on par with GH4’s, but it will still be a generous move “pay for stills and get the video free” 😉
I am quite sceptical. I have been looking for photos of the G4 motherboard but have failed to find any. Found an image of the E-M1 motherboard. It would be nice if O made a post to confirm or deny this particular rumor. My belief would follow whatever his take on it happened to be 🙂
Better 1080P would be more than good enough. The IBIS would trump the GH4s other specs for me.
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/634/398/022.jpg
That was closest I could find in one minute.
The actual release of the firmware update will surely work as confirmation or denial of the rumor. It’s not that long to wait.
Okay, I was thinking that someone video guy making wishlist and posting it anonymously. But because the Admin knows the person (and knows it is who claim to be) and have some valid backgrounds, then it is to me little more valid that it is so. As previous old source doesn’t deny anything. And new source can’t be sure that his used firmware gets to public, it is 50/50 change.
If this is true, I buy a second E-M1 on that day. And I will guide multiple persons to buy one or two for their needs as well.
All what it takes others is 25p video, for me it is 120 (720p) and 240 (272p) framerate. 25p will make E-M1 awesome with current high quality h.264 codec (bitrate larger than most bluesy releases).
Maybe that’s the day when everybody will put the price up on the E-M1. 😉
I suspected the source was Andrew Reid, but definitely it’s not… http://www.eoshd.com/content/13280/5-reasons-olympus-e-m1-will-not-get-4k-video
But he seems to know who is spreading that wrong rumor… 🙁
One of the false claims is that sensor is incapable for 4k recording because heat.
If it is incapable for that, then the sensor is incapable to shoot long exposures, video, EVF data and do time lapses.
The problem why long exposure shots shows more noise isn’t from heat, or anything like that. It is because it is a single frame having all the signal data what otherwise is scattered to multiple frames in video.
If sensor is capable to do 16Mpix 30min long exposure where the sensor is read continually or even keep EVF on, then it is capable for 4K as well. Question is, how well gain chip and A/D processor is capable for the amount of data?
EM-1 does in fact have a problem with excessive noise on long exposures. Noise is known to happen due to heating issues. This is why Astro sensors are often cooled.
That said, maybe Olympus could offer say 1 minute max 4K recordings, and similarly for high speed too.
How many 4K frames (8mp) can the buffer hold? It could be the sensor is capable of 4K output at 24p but the if the hardware can’t encode it in real-time maybe it gets buffered and processed later. That would only give you seconds, not minutes, of 4K.
I agree, lot’s of unknowns, whether the processor can handle it, and even so, if it is possible to fully utilize it. My point was that, IF (and that is a big IF), Olympus adds “4K” to a firmware update, it is likely a very amputated version – as you say, it could be very little. I think the Nikon only does 0.5-1 second. Of course, if it is that short, I can’t see Olympus even promoting/giving that feature. If however they can do 30 seconds or a couple of minutes, maybe. I still really doubt this – sounds like someones wishlist.
The new movie features are welcome for sure. I would really like to see full manual control when shooting video, like on the G6 or GH3. This shouldn’t be too difficult, or focus peaking while recording.
Question to video people. How well does electronic apertures really work? Meaning that can electronically aperture be adjusted in slower speed without stepping?
Meaning that we have a touchscreen, all what is required to make video people go crazy too is to allowed any electronic aperture change be slowed down. Controlled by sliding finger on screen up/down or sideways and aperture would change electronically without stepping.
It depends on how the aperture is controlled in the lens. I think usually it is a stepper motor. So there would of course be steps. But may be one stop or 1/3 stop are so many steps of the stepper motor that a smooth transition would be possible.
They havent added Peaking to E-M5 yet, and failed to update it with any significant firmware,
you want meaningful firmware updates? go with fuji.
Its possible that the processor is too slow to handle the peaking – Look at how slow the viewfinder gets on the much faster E-M1. Its also possible that is either impossible to do with the hardware it has, or would be too bad of an implementation to be worth it.
It is about implementation as well. In E-M1 it is done so first everything is overlaid with dark frame, then contrast is metered and where it is high contrast, the borders of contrast areas are highlighted with white line.
And if color switched from black to white, colors are just switched.
Instead just checking the contrast and highlighting the border with blue/red/yellow color.
The E-M5 has older CPU and we don’t know how well it could manage the process. That is only a question we can’t get answer.
sorry but the em5 has a better global high iso than em1 (yes), the processor on em5 it’s very good and very, I think is not a problem to do 24/25/60p even slow motion at 120fps …… you have no idea how good is this camera.
As I said, we do not know how good the CPU is.
And the E-M5 doesn’t really have better high ISO, it just have Sony sensor what does noise removing in the sensor before it sends the signal to be amplified and then converted to digital.
That is the one nice element in Sony sensors that sensor itself can do the “dark frame” while it does exposure so there doesn’t come second exposure time.
I would not be surprised if Olympus would even update E-M5 for 120 fps at 720p. That would be very wonderful update by my opinion. But we don’t know is there possibility.
So far Olympus has only shown that camera with Truepic VII has capability to 120/240 fps.
The Stylus 1 uses the Truepic VI processor & does those frames/sec but at a lower quality.
It seems that you still believe the Fuji trick: release products prematurely. Fuji has often delivered cameras with severe usability glitches, which became fixed via firmware. I would not call that feature updates. Also Fuji cameras were always and still are rather slow in comparison to the competition. The famous view finder upgrade of older models to get rid of the ridiculous smearing effect, just but not quite, put the finder on par where the competition has been since a long time. m4/3 camera bodies were already so perfect that they actually don’t need such massive firmware updates.
The 4K case is something completely different. If it becomes true, it is most likely a planned evolution of the camera: the hardware was designed in a way to incorporate 4K video in a later development cycle, when the firmware was finished.
Fuji mostly has corrected firmware coding mistakes, which is a different thing,
This reads like some kind of laundry list of wishes. It’s no different from the FF rumours I read about every now and then.
It is different because Olympus has already shown some of the rumored features to be true for E-P5, like 120/240FPS.
So how about having little open mind and think that what I’d Olympus releases firmware updates to all cameras at once?
The E-P5 has 120/240 fps video? I wasn’t aware. Is this true?
Olympus doesn’t mention it in the specs.
Firmware update coming… Olympus has already shown the ads for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVZABJ-lzeA
Waiting the firmware to be released. And how logical it is if Olympus would release a new firmware for E-P5 same time as it release it for E-M1?
And if there is coming 720p 120fps and HVGA (480×272 16:9) in 240fps, on what change there is coming other video updates?
If there would not be that Olympus video about the new framerate addition to E-P5, I would not even trust the half about that coming to E-M1.
And if there is coming codec changes to E-M1 like 120/250 fs, addition to current 30fps, then what is possibility24/25/50/60 fps is coming too same time?
Then it becomes interesting, as that all is for 1080p or below, what if Olympus really can get over 100Mbits bitrates and has hardware capability in their Truepic VII to handle 4k video and has I/O capability to push it (requires at least 10MiB/s writing speed to card, what already is there) and all requires only releasing the raw power with software?
With software we can do a lot of things. We can even improve algorithms what cause less heat build for CPU by requiring less cycles to process data, we can lower battery consumption with software updates, we can change RF signals transmission powers and bandwidths etc etc.
That is the thing what people don’t get, we deal with _digital_ cameras, not film cameras. And with software we can do amazing things.
Example: This game is by size 96KiB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgNfqYf_C_Q
Still it has amazing graphics for the size (very well compressed, requires powerful computer when unpacked and processed).
We can make amazing videos in very small tight package (libraries are still there) like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyEZuV-Rv0 what is 4k (by storage size, not by resolution). Demoscene is very good sample what kind material can be done in small size.
With software hackers had opened Panasonic GH2 to offer from 17-23Mbits bitrates up to 140Mbits or hacks what made the video recording capabilities for long terms like when recording theater or other live shows for 2 hours.
And that is what hackers have managed to do from Panasonic GH2 what has older sensor, CPU etc.
So question is, what if Olympus management has changed, where they have called a mission for Olympus Engineers to deliver better video and they needed time to polish it more? What if there has been and is deal with Panasonic about videos? What if that was the reason that Olympus made decision to use Panasonic sensor instead Sony one?
Currently we don’t have nothing, there is definitely promise that hardware is capable for much more. And then we have rumors, new source saying that there is amazing things coming and then old trustworthy source saying he/she doesn’t know anything about video.
So what if we keep open mind instead bashing or claiming something is impossible because it would come in firmware update? That doesn’t mean we need to be sure that there are new features like 4k coming, but we can always dream but then wake up and keep open mind that there is possibility, as software technology is amazing area.
Do not even think about h.265. That codec requires about 8 times more processing power than h.264 and compress data only twice as well.
It always comes to speed/power ratio. What you lose in speed, you gain in power. What you lose in power, you gain in speed.
At this moment the h.264 is optimum at 3-5Mbits bitrate, after that the gain in quality is little compared to space we use.
I prefer h.265 because it’s the absolute best common codec and makes 4K recording on SDXC cards possible. I could take a ProRes 4:4:4 at 630MB using this Cinemartin converter:
http://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/h265-hevc/
and converted it to a 4.9MB h.265 file with virtually no reduction in IQ. This is literally video gold for me. Amazing file sizes make for better turnaround times, does’t burn up the video card on my computer, and retains the massive IQ and resolution. Now ProRes requires a minimum quad core processor to even function properly, and ProRes still is superior for color grading than using compressed h.265 files, but for using a common video codec, it’s the best in the world for the moment.
If a cell phone can shoot 4k video, why not the em1?..
http://youtu.be/7V8yPGLJSXU
http://youtu.be/3rACazbHjLs
You have not heard? The sensor, the heating… It is the Olympus…. Just pick your poison 😉
The true enemy for 4k is the required bitrate requirements, what current most common broadband widths can’t handle.
A modern high end cell phone is probably significantly faster than the E-M1.
That totally depends on the task…
For handling large images certainly not.
Encoding 4k is something that needs to be done in hardware. In other words, the micro-processor in the E-M1 must have this functionality. Therefore I doubt a simple firmware update will bring 4k support to the E-M1. On top of that, you’ll need very high write speeds, to handle the flux. In other words, a very fast SD-card interface.
So no, I don’t think a firmware update can bring 4k video to the E-M1
And what about, if the hardware is already there (ultimately, the E-M1 is one of the fastest cameras in the market and has a large buffer and fast write speeds), but the firmware was not ready at the time of first release? Should have Olympus postpone the release of the E-M1 for a year, just because of 4K video?
To me everything is plausible.
Gustav, is that you? Will you ever finish your tenth symphony?
This is a perfect example of how ignorant the average reader of these boards is. The notion that a FW upgrade would magically endow a good camera with full model upgrade features is silly.
On Luminous Landscape over two months ago the technical hurdles overcome by Panasonic to be able to handle 4K were explained, yet people insist on believing that FW will transform a lump into anything their photo wet-dreams can imagine.
Do you know exactly what sensor does E-M1 have?
Do you know exactly how Truepic VII works?
Do you know exactly what kind electronics the E-M1 has?
Do you know exactly what kind algorithms Olympus has now in E-M1?
Exactly….
Panasonic could come and explain to you how E-M1 is incapable to record video at all or do long exposures, and you would believe them.
If hardware is capable to something, and it is shipped with software what doesn’t use all the hardware capabilities, then it is always later possible to update the software to use the potentials from hardware.
You are the ignorant, if you don’t have the open mind that there can be caged raw potential in E-M1 hardware for something better than it has now.
maybe its possible to unlock certain hardware options by firmware. I am not saying this will happen in a E-M1 to change it into a GHkiller…too afraid you might call me ignorant too.
Three words: Not. Gonna. Happen.
This is click-bait, nothing more.
Maybe it’s recorded as 1080p and then upsampled to 4K? Crappy quality, but at least it’s 4K!
Let’s see what happens in 10 days. For now it seems that Olympus finally addressed the video aspect. Everybody was crying out loud for variable bitrate 5-axis IBIS Full HD and it seems it comes in the shape of the E-M1 via firmware. That’s great news! (well rumor 50/50) But no one expects the E-M1 to handle 4K, rather the E-M1 Mark II. If it does, Olympus better cranked up their production lines…
OlyFanBoy insists – stop the rumor. You will disappoint a lot of fools who believe firmware will bring 4K. Hope for a better codec with higher bitrate, you might get lucky.
Want Motion Detection like canon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksg78bteN7s&t=37s
Contact olympus! http://goo.gl/y9loy5
To take like this~ http://img3.fengniao.com/forum/attachpics/774/83/30936538_1024.jpg
Anyone with a quarter of a brain will know for sure that 4K for E-M1 through a firmware upgrade is impossible.
I understand the first “rumor” article is click-bait. But come on, this is getting ridiculous.
I don’t belive this 4K rumor either, but remember what the GH2 could do with the Panasonic FW and what i could do with the hacked FW. So some of what is mentioned in this E-M1 rumor could be true, like 25p. and 120, 240 FPS.
It apears to me that the new source may have beta tested 4K features for the camera and that is why he/she is so adamant for this being added. It is possible to add the 4k provided Olympus already has the heat issue addressed, otherwise it may be for the next set of cameras.
And how the people who has quarter or more brain know it is impossible?
I doubt the 4k rumor is true, but you’re wrong about it being impossible through firmware.
As long as the data pipelines are big enough, this is absolutely the type of thing that COULD be added through firmware. In this case it would surprise me though.