A source told us the E-M5II has the same E-M1 electronic viewfinder. So no big surprise here too. The real major new feature is the multi-shot sensor shift tech. let’s hope this will makes us “WOW” when we will know exactly how this works…
Specs known so far:
Same E-M5 16MP sensor
Same E-M1 electornic viewfinder.
Update processor (improves slightly the IQ)
No PDAF
New sensor shift shooting that allows to combine 8 pictures in one to create a 40 Megapixel image
Improved 5 axis stabilization
It does have clean hdmi-out
all common frame rates and video optimized af-algorithm.
50Mb/s all 1080p (no 4K recording)
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What are ‘common’ framerates? For Olympus, 30p has always been ‘common’. For the biggest part of the world it’s 25 fps. The PAL-world that is.
Europeans are soulless, decadent and nihilistic people. Who cares about PAL? The great nation of God-fearing people that is the United States of America is the only thing that counts.
What if you’re a European-minded American who scoffs at other Americans’ silly, simplistic, ignorant myth-centered beliefs?
traitor! no more thanks giving for you Jeffrey Harris, you can go and eat gruel with the rest of the European socialists.
You’re lucky my Plymouth Colony ancestors let your people in.
We did all the work and look what happened. 😉
That’s cool about the EVF.
I still think the PDAF in the EM1 is worth the extra dough (better 43 support).
And better continuous AF with u4/3 lenses.
What’s the differende between the EM1 and EM5 EVFs? Higher resolution and framerate?
Does the em5 screen have the same burn in issues as the em1?
Any EVF has the “same burn issue as E-M1”. The EVF doesn’t have the problem in E-M1 but its with everyone when you are far sighted and you need to adjust EVF diopter settings over +2. On 0 or at near sighted settings (between 0 and -5) you have no problems as the sunlight doesn’t get focused to display panel in EVF.
All EVFs have the same “burn in” issue. The only way to get rid of it is to get rid of the lens in front of the EVF. That means a totally different type of EVF architecture, which no company has done yet.
It really needs a shutter or electronic (LCD perhaps) means of covering the light path to the EVF when not being used which can be triggered by the eye sensor, but unfortunately that just adds to the bulk & cost of the camera.
Plus Bigger size, adaptive brightness etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8OpiGxwEs
The e-m5 evf is ok – the e-m1 evf is amazing. Bigger than my om-2’s huge 35 mm ovf and canon’s full frame ovf’s.
I wonder if it will have better low light AF capability than the current models.
That is what I am waiting for.
But that probably won’t happen until the next generation M43 sensors arrive.
Apparently the Panasonic GX7 has really good low light AF, if I recall correctly. And that’s a current generation sensor.
True, thank you for pointing that out.
I read about this as well.
According to the GX7 specs, the GX7’s AF works in between EV -4 – 18 (ISO100 equivalent). The OMDs don’t go down to EV -4.
The GX7 is a nice camera, but I would like to stay with Olympus. So that is what I am waiting for form Olympus.
I agree with you , I’m an Olympus user as well. Just saying that it’s definitely possible with today’s sensors: you never lnow, Oly might do it!
Electronic shutter or 1/8000 ?
I am sure a good camera for stills but most cameras are now; no PDAF no DFD and no 4k it will be a long way down the list for those keen on hybrid/video, the competition is hot and going to get hotter this year! A6000 NX1 NX4000 GH4 A7000 A7II A7s and maybe Canon & Nikon will wake up this year?
New A7r expected soon too, maybe in Feb
Hope it’s the same quality but maybe even a bit faster…
Any one know if the E-M5 vill have tethering to lightroom, as the E-M1 have?
No information about that so far I think.
There is still A LOT we don’t really know about this camera and the new features.
If it has tethering and you can get a 40mp raw file, it will be amazing to scan negatives with!
This is 100% something I am hoping. Duping my 645 negatives with this setup will be amazing. Even if it doesn’t have RAW, it will still be nice to use sensor shift for this.
I think somehow this camera will be added to the list (of one so far) to be tether-able. If not, there is always this programme which apparently works quite well & is also free. https://rebs.biz/cc/en/index.html
OK, in case you didn’t trust the link for rebs, ‘Camera Control’, here is some of the opening description on his page for tethering or using WiFi enabled Olympus model cameras to your PC.
“Camera Control
is a multi language freeware application for Wifi access to OI.Share® compatible camera models from the manufacturer Olympus®. This includes the current models OM-D E-M1, OM-D E-M10, PEN E-P5, PEN E-PL7, Stylus 1 and TG-3.”
“Currently Camera Control consists of four modules, which allow the import of files from the camera storage card, the remote control / remote release of the camera and the background transfer of picture files (Tethered Shooting) during the direct control of the camera.”
sensor shift will “wow” me, if the result is a 40MP !RAW!-file 🙂 Otherwise it´s just one more of Olympus´ jpeg toys…
+1
Right, but given that the Hasselblad with sensor microshift does produce 200 MP RAWs, I’d think the E-M5II will produce 40 MP RAWs as well.
If so, I’ll wait anxiously for the Em2 🙂
Right 🙂
Well…it will be an embarrassingly STUPID implementation to have a 3-year old sensor moving to make 40MP jpeg files. There is no way that Olympus could be that lame.
I expect the captures to be RAW. If it isn’t…no one will buy it.
No OSPDAF, no built-in flash=no purchase.
I’m with you on the PDAF but built in flash is useless
I tend to agree.
I would beg to differ in that… A built in flash can trigger external flashes so herein is the advantage further to this, there’s nothing sweeter than having available fill-in flash imho 🙂
The external flash that comes bundled with the camera can trigger external flashes too.
if this external flash isn’t in the bag (or left at home)…
You took the ‘words right out my mouth’ I think built in would mean that one never forgets
But if you remember to pack your off-camera slave flashes, why would you forget the master flash?
Because it’s tiny whereas slave flashes are usually big and because I use to have a internal flash as commander 😉
All Olympus DSLRs had it built in & was immediately available for RC or fill without having to worry about making sure it was in the bag or attaching it. There was one definite annoyance with the DSLRs though & that was with the flashes being used as a pulsing focus assist.
Built in flash can be used to many great things. Like in macro photography it has more power than needed and easily directed front of the lens above the subject. No hassle with external flashes!
It can be used with simple diffusser to lighten up a subject easily and have enough power to do it against sun (you can get 30x30cm surface area for it!).
But!
Give a external flash (E-M5 and E-M1 way) and build in universal RF RC flash system that can control any other flash with TTL and High Speed and I would be happy. Now because there are no universal standard, external flashes are just a mess!
Built in flash is more useful to me than PDAF, even if the flash only gets used sometimes.
PDAF by itself is not a magic bullet, as the GH4 has better focus performance than any mirrorless camera with the possible exception of the A6000 despite it’s lack of PDAF.
I care about the best implementation, not the underlying technology.
“I care about the best implementation, not the underlying technology”- Very well said.
Don’t you use flashes when shooting your brick walls?
Better then no flash in the middle of the night in Paris and portrait at ISO 16000… (really truly happened to me).
Hopefully EVF will not suffer from E-M1’s EVF burn in issue. Anytime your EVF sees sun it can be demaged when your dioptric correction is activated. Same issue goes for VF4.
Did this happen to you?
It can happen only when the dioptric correction is turned completely to the right and you point the camera and try to focus into the sun. I personally don’t see any reason why I should try to focus into the sun..
I am an early adopter of E-M5, bought almost 3 years ago when it first appeared. It is a great little camera. The problems of it for me, in the order of reducing importance are:
1) Lack of OSPDAF for proper C-AF, both for stills and video
2) Lack of dedicated exposure compensation dial, working in Manual mode too
3) Lack of built-in flash, need to bring external flash, mount it, store the parts covering hot shoe and accessorysomewhere trying not to lose them (if you lose them, you lose weather sealing)
4) Lack of proper, gradual digital zoom (sometimes what I need is 1.1x or 1.2x for proper composition, and I don’t want to crop in post, while the camera has only 2x)
Did they fix ANY of those problems? Does not seem like so.
CAF is my biggest complaint with the E-M5. I don’t care what technology is used but I’d really like to see CAF and tracking brought up to the level of comparably priced SLRs.
And yet, Olympus will do nobody asked for, like more art filters, collage mode and sensor-shift fake resolution BS…
Meanwhile over at Sonyalpha Rumours; they are all debating the 50 mpix FF new Sony A7R II bet Olympus will be pissed the 40 m pix doesn’t sound quite so impressive now! -personally 16 is fine for me.
I’d prefer 16 megapixels over 40 especially if there’s an improvement in sensor technology. I Think that its a case of bells and whistles in order to get the consumer to purchase the latest tech.
I would love to think that improvements over the minor niggles would be better than an increase megapixels
I’d prefer 40MP downsampled to 16MP to get optimal pixels.
If you look at the output from an A7r or a D800, even with an Otus, the ultimate resolving power of those pixels at 100% doesn’t come close to the “good” pixels on a Sigma DP Merrill or Quattro. On the other hand, that A7r and D800 has more than twice as many pixels, so it makes up for it when you downscale to a more realistic resolution.
Sir, your making sense. To much sense.
While true, the sacrifices you have to make in both workflow and practical limitations of the Foveon system make it too niche to begin with for most applications.
I’m not suggesting that the Foveons are the way forward necessarily, just suggesting that their pixel level acuity punches well above their weight. The solution needs to be “good pixels” not “more pixels.”
I’m not opposed to more pixels on a sensor, though. I think that the 36MP FF sensors are one of the best possible ways to arrive at “good pixels” through downsampling. But at their original resolution at 100%? Not as useful. Much like the principle of the Lumia 1020 smartphone with 41MP downsampled to 8MP.
The screen flips and tilts, why is this not mentioned in the specs?
I think this is a good implementation… Very good!!!
But does it do somersaults…aha!
Nooo, please, not the EVF from E-M1! It’s the worst one yet, much worse than E-M5, E-M10, GH4, GX7, X-T1, A6000, A7.
Stop messing around, Olympus!!!
Just the opposite, troll.
Are you an idiot, “disappointed”? It is a well known fact that the EVF inside E-M1 is noticeably better than its predecessor.
Just why this idioting and senseless trolling?
Are you high?
Regardless of the sensor shift trick, all those small improvements in hardware (EVF, flip screen, control layout etc.) and in firmware (focus peaking, better video etc.) might add up to a considerably more useful tool than the E-M5 is, overall.
I am convinced the new processor will offer improved tracking focus too, despite the absence of phase difference sensors. The famous “DFD” technology is probably based on chromatic aberration analysis and Olympus can quite feasibly implement this idea in its own cameras.
I agree. It is certainly going to be a much better E-M5 with the improved features & additions.
This camera is looking more and more like an insult to all true photographers. Save your money, good folks, or buy an EOS M. It runs circles around this ‘camera’.
nice joke…. hahaha…
Slow circles!
i have an eos m also with three lenses and I can’t think of a single way it runs rings around the omd. Other way around, I’m a faithful canonite!
Do you think there’s still some on eBay?
The same EOS M that even Canon execs admitted was not competitive enough with M4/3?
lol EOS M… GOOD ONE! xD
Your would-be circle looks more like a epilleptic rolling in a pile of leaves.
If it has the same EVF as the E-M1, this is big news ! I like the E-M5 better than the E-M1, in particular the the slightly better IQ due IMO to the absence of on sensor PDAF and the smaller form factor.
The only thing i liked in the E-M1 was the bigger EVF.. So if that is true, i will update my E-M5 !!
I don’t think the ‘on sensor PDAF’ is the reason for difference in image quality as the E-M1 uses a Panasonic sensor while the E-M5 (& E-M10 & PEN models) use a Sony sensor.
Hi
Anyone knows if it will have Auto ISO in manual mode?
Yes. Just like E-M1 has it in M and Video modes.
I would be interested to know what CPU does this camera really have? Is it TruePic VII or TruePic VIII? E-M1 has TruePic VII and if this will have same CPU then updates can be brought with firmware update to E-M1 too (like live composite from E-M10) that would keep E-M1 alive longer! Think 50Mbits upgrade to E-M1 (those who have problems with current non-pixelated and tack sharp video!).
The “improved image processor” isn’t enough as it doesn’t mean anything. But if it is TruePic VIII then it is sad thing.
Pumped for this camera. It brings a lot of features I have wanted on the newer than my EM5 bodies (Wifi, focus peaking, colour creator, better AF, better VF, 2×2 switch, in camera HDR etc)
and the real boon is the image stacking, I cannot wait to see it in use, while I do understand there are a few applications it may not be ideal for there are many it will be superb for.
No audio in again? SEMA-1 adapter sucks, it occupies hot shoe slot so I cannot mount my beloved Rode Videomic without additional bracket.
Where did you read there is no audio socket? There is a work around but i agree it’s not ideal. I expect they are saving stuff for the em1 mkii.
http://thepeaandcarrot.com/omd-on-camera-mic/
I have been thinking about it. Thanks for the great link.
As a long time user of Hasselblad/Imacon multicapture backs the only disadvantage of this system is obvious.
You need to shoot with a tripod. And only of still subjects.
The balance of this chat is immaterial.
I saw what you did there.
I’m very skeptical about the viewfinder rumor.
If the E-M5II has the same EVF as the E-M1, weather sealing like the E-M1, 5-axis stabilization like the E-M 1, WiFi like the E-M 1 (I assume this will be an across-the-board feature from now on) and same dual-mode controls as the E-M 1 (via the “1-2” lever visible on the back of the camera)… then will there really be much reason left to buy an E-M 1? Especially since the E-M5II will have a swivel LCD and the trick 40-mpx feature, and the E-M 1 won’t?
I can’t believe Olympus would shoot itself in the foot that way. A few extra knobs, PDAF (dubious benefit) and tethered shooting (assuming they don’t include that in the E-M5II as well) wouldn’t be enough “step-up” features to justify the E-M 1’s extra cost. E-M 1 sales would plunge and dealers would kvetch.
Besides, the E-M 1 finder unit is an expensive component that not everybody needs. It would make more sense for Olympus to stick with the smaller-magnification finder on the new “middle” model (sharing parts with the E-M 10 for greater economy) and keep the high-magnification finder as an E-M 1 exclusive.
The E-M1 will probably be cheaper, so it makes sense.
AF and 43rds lens compatibility, better build and warranty, built in grip (ergonomics), tethering etc.. This is very much the same type of differences between a D4 and a DF, or a 5Dm111 and a 1Dx.
Differentiating top tier models is very difficult, but if you can sell a series of FF bodies such as the D610, DF and D720 (?) and D4 from $1400 to $4000 (prices just a guess).
Remember as well, they probably have the largest userbase of EM5 owners, making the EM5II, keeping the pricepoint and throwing in some new technologies is a good way to get them to upgrade.
Except the af of the best Olympus is worse than the worst Nikon’s… Not to mention iq and the rest…
Unlike you I have a great deal of experience with the results of multiple systems… I can guarantee you what you have just said is a bare-faced lie 🙂
But shill on.
You have experience with what? And you guarantee what? Your pics are quite miserable, but you have experience and guarantee… Everybody can see for themselves.
Lol, look I know what you are doing is just a job… And we all have bills to pay so I understand. But at least try to make sense and not type drivel.
Please share your pictures so we can truly see for ourselves.
Are you absolutely sure you want me to show how consistently a Nikon D4 can back focus? be careful here I am working on a project right now and I have lots of shoulders in focus with fuzzy faces…
There is a nugget for you. EXIF should be in tact… Boy does that hoodie look crisp huh? This was the only guy in the frame and his head was dead centre… OUCH
No, I’d like the troll to share….
It is right there… right below here 🙂
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1670/3167/original.jpg?w=600&h
Check out that wicked back focus on a man standing still right in the middle of the frame… How did this D4 do that?????? Impossible! No, PDAF.
I think the E-M1 was produced solely to accommodate the old 43 glass users (Big Grip & Phase Focusing)
And the E-m5 II is now basically considered to be the Top-Tier camera.
We may find that the E-m1 Line is refreshed less regularly as well?
I hope you are right, its very un-m43 to have to buy a huge camera to get the best features.
cmon… a huge camera… cmon… maybe a larger camera… but huge… cmon…
a huge camera
http://j.mp/1zPUW5u#sthash.KVfrUo5s.dpuf
a larger camera
http://j.mp/1lzIDV4#sthash.KVfrUo5s.dpuf
Ok, a little bigger than the E-M5 🙂
The E-M5 size is as big as Id like to go, so I would really like to have it all in maximum that size. Dont need a big grip or PDAF, so I wish that it would be the only thing seperating them (meaning having all of their best stuff at the time of release). I would like to not be excluded from the best stuff because I want a smaller camera than the one made to hold huge 43 lenses. Some of the 43 leses are HUGE, you cant “c mon” on that.
Olympus has never been one to keep features out of cameras once those features have launched, unless it just wont fit like the EVF and 5-axis (if we accept olympus’ word on why).
But I love the fact we have options. How many manufacturers can use their native lenses on everything from dedicated video cameras both pocket-able and not… as well as a plethora of body styles, shapes and sizes from the GM5/EPM2 to the EM1 and GH4.
I love the e-m1 size! It’s in the sweet spot when it comes to compactness and ergonomy with all lenses. In addition to size, m43 has an advantage when it comes to superteles too. So remember that the pro body must handle lenses like the upcoming 300 f4 too… If the e-m5 II has the same evf and similarly performing af (cf also!) than the e-m1 (don’t neccessarily care that it’s not pdaf) then it’s starting to look worth buying for me.
The E-M1 was made for this lens:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5528/10811647035_5a3079d32d_c.jpg
For my 17mm, 25mm, 45mm, 75mm etc. I dont need the size or the grip, or even the PDAF. I think should I get the best Olympus has to offer (at the time of release), even if I go for a smaller camera.
True, but aren’t we lucky to have both that lens and the EM1 as well as the suite of m43rds lenses and the EM5/10
I dont imagine it will get much bigger, it looks like they have ditched the accessory port for height, and it is fractionally larger than the previous model with a slightly better grip, more versatile screen and better button placement (?).
Man, I wouldn’t mind one of those lenses though.
Dream on!
maybe the time has come to introduce 4k on the Em1…
I believe you are correct. The E-M1 will come out later in the year with 4K. Meanwhile the E-M5 mk II will adopt most of the E-M1 tech plus the 40MP trick. I am happy they are keeping the Sony sensor in the E-M5 Mk ii. So much less noise than the Panasonic sensor in the E-M1, particularly at long exposures. Panasonic get around this heat dissipation with big heat sink bodies. The E-M1 Mk ii is going to need to be bigger or heavier to get 4K.
The E-M1 will still have better quality-built with better sealing and better cold operating limit, plus more direct control buttons, and builder built-in grip and OSPDAF for the 4/3 lens users. Plus the E-M1 is nearing 1-1/2 years old and just might be released late this year or at least next year. So the R&D costs should already be recovered so it is just production costs assuming the other costs are the same between camera models.
When the E-M10 was released it nearly cost the same as the reduced costs of the old E-M5, so it is possible the E-M5 II will be priced about the same as the old E-M1.
It is best to put a lot of new tech into the best selling camera.
To some extent, companies have to leap frog higher end products. When the E30 was released it had a newer and considerably sensor than the flagship E3. It wasn’t weather sealed and didn’t have the robust build, but in many ways it was a higher specced body. The E-M10 has several features that the E-M5 doesn’t have. My guess (and it is a pure guess on my part) is that most of the market for the E-M1 has already been penetrated. Most folks who buy it will be folks who need a second body, folks who need to replace a body, and folks looking to get reasonable deals. Selling prices at most outlets are currently about $200 less than when released. Sometimes I see new bodies going for less. I don’t think releasing an E-M5ii with some higher specs than the E-M1 will have much impact on future E-M1 sales.
Exactly. Compare the “higher speccd” EM-10 to the EM-5. His logic doesn’t match.
I hope the viewfinder is like the EM1. That, plus the locking PSAM dial (my one major gripe with the EM5 is that PSAM gets knocks into another setting too easily), and I’m sold on trading up.
I read a post on dpreview where someone said ” they clearly indicated that the MkII will NOT have focus peaking”… Did I miss something? I demand it even with video…
BS! I don’t believe that. The sensor and processor should be identical to the E-M10. Therefore, there are no technical and licensing issues not to implement focus peaking.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. The E-M1 and the E-M10 has focus peaking so I would expect the upcoming E-M5 II to have it. Still wait for the real specs. Then wait for the reviewers. Then wait for the actual users give it a real test.
That someone must be talking through their hat then! Olympus even updated the Stylus 1 with Focus Peaking!
Disappointmen! 3 years and same sensor? no pdaf? pointless 40mpix – how many current lens hvae this much resoultion, what about diffraction limit?
We don’t know how the 40mpix feature will work… so why complaining? Wait and see
Shot with an EM10 and liked it more over the EM5. Couple things I feel this camera needs to be successful:
1) price point under 8 bills. I wouldn’t touch it for more than personally.
2) OLED screen in back. I don’t see that mentioned above.
3) Get rid of that squishiness in the dials due to the weather sealing. Nasty.
40MP is great, but with a trick. Anyone consider how much this will kill your shutter life…firing off all those shots all the time. It’s still just 16MP and how about better noise performance and DR. With cameras so freaking good as it is, less and less reason to move up the ladder.
If the rumor is true and the EVF is the EM-1’s EVF, you won’t be disappointed. Its a really great EVF.
If Olympus wants to grow it needs to add value to its cameras EM1 is discounted to about 30% lower price than the GH4 so panasonic must be doing something right but I think the Samsung NX1 is now eating GH4 sales
The EM-1 viewfinder would certainly make this camera more interesting, that is the best electronic viewfinder I have tried. I love my GM1 and GX1 but eventually I want to buy a new mft camera. Wish list:
-Better AF-C
-Better high ISO performance
-In body stabilization
-Better ergonomics for big lenses
It seems like it comes down to Em5ll or GX8 whenever that comes out. Not anything bigger than that, I like to keep my mft cameras small.
And while I am on the wishlist, if Voigtlander would produce a 67,5mm f 0,95 lens I would really be drooling…
But I doubt if EM5ii has any bigger improvements in ISO or AFC, so it seems like a good move to wait for GX8. If it is not better at least the EM5ii will be cheaper by then…
Yes, the E-M1 viewfinder does make the upcoming E-M5 II more interesting.
I wouldn’t count for much base ISO improvement, but with the 40mp composite mode the image noise should be really low, since the 8 shots should cancel out the random image noise.
Olympus did state that they are working on non PDAF improvements for C-AF. Maybe they will have something like Panasonic’s DFD technology for AF.
Rumors claim it will have improved in-body stabilization, hopefully it is true.
Ergonomics looks good with the button placement plus the optional grip.
Only a week plus before we know for sure.
After several years this would be a disappointing update IMO. Hoping sensor is actually improved in a noticeable way. We will see.
I only want more dynamic range. M43 blown highlights suck…everything else is about perfect.
Yes, agree. Well, I would also like an extra stop before noise gets noticeable.
Ummm….do you know how to properly use your tool? Use your live highlight and shadow blinkies. You won’t ever blow your highlights this way. It’s why there is an EVF (one of the many reasons).
“A poor craftsman blames his tools”.
Learn to use the camera. This sensor has way more DR than the cameras we had 10 years ago and we made great work with them. Oh yeah, its high ISO performance is way better too.
Just who is going to make this sensor? Sony? what’s in it for them? Panasonic? Their recent cameras have Sony sensors. Why? Probably because they can get them cheaper than making them.
“Learn to use your camera.”- Are you kidding me? That’s a very canned and anecdotal response to the desire for more dynamic range. There is a difference…a very noticeable one. People made great work for what they had, but progress and what could be done with previous technology are two separate matters- you are getting the two confused.
I never blamed my tools. A good craftsman knows how to appreciate advancements in performance and puts them to use.
If you look at theE-M5-2 as a Test Bed for Sensor-Shift technology and NOT an update, you won’t be disappointed.
I’m very interested in Sensor Shift technology, but I’m Very Disappointed that Olympus’s Retro Design stops me from using a Tilt & Shift adapter. For me, no T&S means No Interest in the E-M5-2.
I have a Canon 17- TSE and have wanted a TS option in MFT. However I have recently been using the 16-35 and fixing perspective in LR and it is a workable solution. With the upcoming 7-14 I think I could finally transition to using MZT for paying architectural gigs.
I use a 5D3 + TS-E 90mm f/2.8 for product shots, not architecture. Glad to see that you can use a work-around.
The work-around for products shots, using an E-M5-2 would be focus stacking. Focus stacking, done right, requires a lead-screw focus rail. And more time to do the job.
At this point, it looks like a Sony E (not FE) is my best bet for downsizing my T&S rig. I’ll buy a NEX T&S adapter and use it with a Nikon 60mm f/2.8 Micro (macro) lens (= 90mm FF). If it works well with my NEX 5n, I’ll be first in line to buy a Sony a7000. All new Sony prosumer/pro cameras tether directly to Capture One (a BFD).
I think it is a very clever innovation with the sensor that they CAN achieve considering they don’t make the sensor.
I am puzzled as to why everyone thinks they can just pop in some revolutionary sensor when they don’t make them but are at the mercy of Sony or Panasonic.
Seems manufacturers are struggling with big upgrades. Sony seems to be more aggressive as they are such big sensor makers. Sony Now off to a MP race in FF. I think that there will be no major upgrades until M43 comes out with organic sensor. I think company’s like Sony should focus also more on their Apps. And make Touch LCDs Also voice activation. So one would just say ND filter On for example or F1.8. And camera would make adjustment We all use smartphones and some of those smarts should make their way into cameras Fujis upgrades have been so small like X-a2 almost exactly like X-a1 same with x30 after 2-3 years still same sensor and proceccor and really should have a 1inch sensor for that size body. At least Canon came out with g7x. To compete wit rx100 m3. So I do not expect the Panasonic GX7 to have a new sensor although I really think they should add phase detect to make them hybrid for faster tracking focus like in the Sony A6000
Seems like the em1 at a bit more might be a better option as its price has come down So same EVF. And basically same sensor. New em5 still a great camera Grip much better on em1
To early to say if 40mp tech with 16mp senor will do magic 🙂
Taylor Swift shoots with the EM1 or it is EM5 – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2927194/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Taylor-Swift-hits-right-notes-retro-swimsuit-Hawaii.html
Dr Wu Lien-teh
I think it’s an EM1, looks like its got the built in grip in the pic where she’s holding it.
Surely she’d want wifi for instagramming or whatever, too 😛
I ran into Steven Tyler at the airport and he had an EM-5!
It is E-M1, you can identify it from X-sync plug, and Info button position.
It just looks so small in her hands. Just like E-M1 is small even with 40-150mm Pro lens when you don’t attach vertical grip and you remove the tripod collar. If wanted even smaller then remove the lens hood and it is very small and light combo. But attach all those and it becomes a camera that everyone notices and gets little scared as well.
Where to begin with this? Let’s see, no real benefits apart from before, so why invest or not at all? It seems this is THE camera for those who waited this long, and yet… not at all. Achievements without intentions, intentions with no purpose. Stay clear of this path, Olympus! The Umbersun will shine its dark rays upon you very soon. How shall we proceed? I cannot fathom the indigestible portions of data emanating from advertising and press releases with flatulent prose. An unending stream of consciousness is the only road to photographic salvation (not salivation!), so beware of the false prophets of ‘faster AF’, ‘higher ISO’, ‘deeper buffer’ and ‘4K’. Remember the saying: “To watch a woman derobing from afar, or caressing her soft curves with your own hands, is the difference worth the long walk?”
To conclude, feel free to go ahead, but be careful where you tread!
http://www.43rumors.com/ft3-new-olympus-mechanical-shutter-will-do-116000-and-electronic-for-132000/
“An anonymous source told us Olympus next MFT camera will have a mechanical shutter that will do 1/16000. And there is also an Electronic shutter for 1/32000.”
How about this shutter? Will it make its way to EM5ii? If this is true it will greatly benefit the sensor shift, which, unfortunately, seems to be the only feature that might be tempting to a limited group of people. Hopefully this turns out to be highly useful and the new processor does improve IQ.
If the E-M5 II has a shutter for 1/16000 or even 1/32000 it will be very usefull. No more need for ND filters for me.
1/16 000 is just 1 stop less light from 1/8000. Using a f/1.8 in direct sunlight requires to use 2-3 stop ND filter. Using a f/1.4 requires 3-4 stop ND filter. And using a f/0.95 requires to use 4-6 stop ND filter.
Use those with flash (overcome the sun), then you are limited to 1/320 sync speed and you need ND filters.
Usual thing is that electronic shutter can’t be used with flash so you are 1/8000 or 1/16 000 for high-speed sync that requires proprietary hotshoes and it means that you are required to have flash just 1-1.3 meters from the subject and your batteries are eaten quickly.
And if you do any kind long exposure, you need ND filters (NDx64 or NDx400 or NDx1000 even).
So for many the ND filters are still required in many cases but some cases not.
if this have better continuous autofocus, a stop better in high ISO, and better video, then its good enough for me.
i think it had more resolution ,rich detail but ISO,DR still the same sensor