Panasonic G5
Via Dpreview: “Panasonic has announced that Getty Images sports photographer Dean Mouhtaropoulos will be covering the London 2012 Olympic Games exclusively using its recently-announced Lumix DMC-G5.” Great! Meantime BHphoto notified that the camera may ship from August 10 (see screenshot).
Olympus E-M5
Our reader Melchior noticed a problem on the E-M5 firmware update: “On the Olympus.jp site they say “The update service to Ver. 1.2 was temporarily discontinued. The update service to Ver. 1.1 is available. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=42134144&refresh=1033“
E-M5 vs GH2 highlight recovering test at Dpreview forum. How Sharp is the $999 Olympus OM-D E-M5 vs the $6800 Canon EOS 1D X? (Diglloyd).
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I just got here to post that. No point in linking there.
They should also announce which lenses are to be used.
I read that headline as ‘G5 shoots Olympus’ LOL
I bet he got a 35-100x 🙂
+1
Unlikely Panasonic are going to give him the Olympus 75, and if he doesn’t have a fast tele lens, he might not want the G5 after the Olympics 🙁
Yep, a high diving image was 93mm, f/3.5
No other (mft) lens can deliver this
Those v 1.2 firmware must have big problem, Olympus even pull some of new OM-D with fw 1.2 out of shelf.
Quality Assurance testing, Olympus. It isn’t just a concept.
I was able to download and install the v. 1.2 update for my E-M5. It took a while, and I think that was the problem for some people as they may have panicked and shut off their cameras instead of just letting it run. My camera is fine. Most would prefer an SD card download and update like Panasonic instead of the Olympus online direct download to the camera.
Same here! I completely agree about the update via SD card as well.
I tough something was wrong when updating to 1.2, took for what seem forever.
I almost unplugged the camera, was actually thinking of removing the battery.
Since it took so long I tough it lost connection to the PC or something…
So I agree with your observation.
Strange… My 1.2 update went really quick.
Same here.
I suspect that some of the failures were people getting impatient & intervening but won’t admit to it & now Olympus has had to pull the update to double check. Maybe I’m wrong, but then maybe I’m right.
The price of the Lumix 20mm f1,7 is dropping. Will there be soon a modern version of this??? Better and more quick AF and not this ugly brown stripe… Any rumours???
Very interesting EM5 vs EOS 1DX but pity cannot see the articles .
Need to pay $$$ to view !
All of sudden, the story of shooting the Olympics by Dean Mouhtaropoulos with G5 is getting more and more attention, particularly considering his nine years work with Getty and various Canon equipment.
Many professional photographers have already some kind of compact camera in they bags in addition to a couple of full frame heavy weight bodies. Going to shoot sport with just G5 and the MFT lenses is a challenge, and I’m glad that Panasonic convinced Dean to try it. I hope we will learn something from his experience as he is one a few Getty photographers who is eager to share his shooting tips: ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwrUZerzSU
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwrUZerzSU
Sadly, the only pro shooting tip I can see from the video is: hammer the shutter button as fast as you can. What isn’t particularly new or interesting.
Please remove the link to the Lloyd Chambers website. This is a pay-site, and should not be listed here.
Please keep the link, nothing wrong with linking to a pay site.
How are we going with third party batteries. Are there any complaints we all need to know about?
I think 3rd party is the way to go after all Oly batteries are very short in supply and expensive. This site claims to have sold 3 at over $950 each??????
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-Olympus-BLN-1-Rechargeable-Lithium-Ion-Battery-1220mAH-OM-D-E-M5-B100-/400308815684?pt=AU_Cameras_Photographic_Accessories&hash=item5d3443c744
Maybe they should give away a free e-m5 with each battery.
Am I missing something? What does the issue of battery availability have to do with the topics of this thread?
Isn’t that the case with most of the comments in this thread? What’s wrong here?