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You really can’t go more micro than that! I just found a 3cmm small miniature OM phone strap on eBay. There are actually two of them for sale: The [shoplink 31458 ebay]Silver E-M5 miniature (Click here)[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 31459 ebay]Black E-M5 miniature (Click here)[/shoplink]. You also get two interchangeable lenses! Of course, it won’t take any picture. P.S.: A funny camera that works is the Ikea cardboard camera you can find on [shoplink 31460 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
We had many E-M5 reviews in these days but Admiringlight is the first to test it as Sports Shooting camera: “The continuous drive mode is competitive with even professional grade DSLRs, and the excellent viewfinder and stabilization helps in framing shots with long lenses. I was impressed that the battery lasted all day, including 872 shots and a bunch of chimping, and still had some juice in the tank. The image quality was excellent, even given the very difficult lighting conditions. Overall, I really couldn’t ask for more from this tiny wonder.”
P.S.: Leica X2 vs Fuji X100 vs Olympus E-M5 and Sony NEX-7 by Steve Huff. An E-M5 review by Savezzi.
E-M5 orders (Click on the names of the stores to see the product page):
Black E-M5 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, J&R, Warehouse UK, Digitalrev and Amazon Japan.
Silver E-M5 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, J&R, Warehouse UK, and Amazon Japan.
Black E-M5 body with 14-42mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto , Digitalrev and J&R.
Black E-M5 body with 12-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, J&R, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Deutschland , Digitalrev and Amazon Japan.
Silver E-M5 body with 12-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, J&R, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Deutschland and Amazon Japan.
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It’s a pitty they didn’t put at least 1 Mp sensor in it.
I have one !!!!
In black is hell beatifull that tiny cam !!
Me too! It is made very precisely in detail.
BTW Admin, the links to buying them say E-M5 & should be saying OM. They are exact replicas of the OM-1.
THIS IS SOOOO CONFUSING. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EM-5 AND OM? WERE THERE TWO CAMERA’S RELEASED? IS ONE A LINE LIKE IN FASHION AND THE OTHER THE SKINNY MODEL? WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THIS CONFUSION? PLEASE BE MORE CLEAR. THANKS.
The Admiring Light review also had this to say:
“While I would not classify the E-M5 as a sports camera due to its lackluster continuous autofocus and the lack of fast long native lenses for the format, the camera can do a very good job given the right sport. As I mentioned earlier, sports that allow for a good bit of pre-focusing, like golf and baseball are well suited to the camera.”
actually….that’s an OM-1 model
The golf shots look great {some are little more than portraits} but come on this could be done with any camera simply pre-focus on the golfers body and zap the button at whatever FPS your camera has and job done. The only difference with the O-MD is the higher FPS rate so you get 9 chances instead of five hardly rocket science eh. I love my mFT gear but I wish you would lay off these type of fanboy links , it gets the loons over at DPreview all excited
Golf, really? It’s rather portrait photography. Why not to try soccer or basketball? Can be done even with Pen.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=41683556
Mick not one of those shots is sharp though it could be a DPreview image hosting issue
I totally agree hught! it’s a very fine camera so admin please be a bit more balanced! The review also says
“While I would not classify the E-M5 as a sports camera due to its lackluster continuous autofocus….. the camera can do a very good job given the right sport. As I mentioned earlier, sports that allow for a good bit of pre-focusing, like golf and baseball are well suited to the camera.” which is the bit you opted to leave out
I am a happy m4/3 shooter I just wish panasonic or olympus would be able to do continuous autofocus as well as the Nikon 1. And I wish the Nikon could do high iso as well as….. 😉
Well… if you can show me a single truly shar and properly focused pic of a fast moving, at least slightly isolated subject approaching the pgotograpgher at high speed I would admit that the Nikon kight be able to deliver. Tto date, however, I have found only loads of nearly shar pics – and that’s far more annoying than total misses.
The C-AF of my E-M5, however, allows me to shoot sighthounds at work…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63427925@N00/sets/72157629907856270/
…or cars moving at somewhat between 60 and 90kph…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63427925@N00/sets/72157629746072442/
…and if the AF field would remain visible in burst mode, my keeper rate and precision would be far bigger. So, as I see it, the Nikon 1 is no competition for the E-M5. While the C-AF performance of the E-M5 is crippled by the lack of a vcisible AF field but apart from that, the C-AF itself is at least as good as the one of a low-end DSLR and arguably better.
Don the nikon 1 has far better caf than either the olympus or panasonic. if nikon can do that so can m4/3. fair enough?
did i ever say it was good in other aspects? no.
you like your e-m5 . it is a fab camera for its size, money etc. it isn’t perfect, learn to accept that.
what is about people who buy into a system?
their system is “perfect” and if anyone mentions something another system does better they gets ssssoooo defensive.
the attitude by some commenters is the same as the people who criticize m4/3 for having a “small” sensor.
I am sorry Donparrot but looking at the original size photos in your link very few are critically sharp .The shots like the dog shots would be just as easily achieved by simply pre-focussing on a specific spot and zapping the button at 9fps you would have a very good chance of catching a few
At small size
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63427925@N00/7274834412/in/set-72157629907856270/
At full size the softness is obvious
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63427925@N00/7274834412/sizes/o/in/set-72157629907856270/
Not forgetting that with these shots shooting at F6.3 at that kind of distance even at 187mm you will have four – five feet DOF hardly narrow. I am not putting your photos down they are very good considering the tools used and better than I would get with my EP3
I am a happy camper with mFT but the Nikon V1 seriously outperforms the E-M5 in this area ,yes I have used both cameras.
These are old OM-1 minitures.
These are not E-M5 but OM-1 minitures.
i have a silver one. it’s not em5. om1 or 2 i forgot. it’s cute though.
Why do some people report getting 250 shots from the camera, and some report getting 872?
I would think it would be if they had the grip on with a spare battery, if they didn’t have the high refresh rate in the viewfinder set (which warns you that it uses more battery power), RC mode turned off and etc…
Just to clarify (as the photographer of the golf shots linked to in this post)….I shot with the grip all day, but only shot with one battery. I do not have a second battery for my E-M5 yet.
As to why I got 872? Well, shooting burst has a lot to do with it I’m sure, as the camera was on far less per shot than when shooting deliberate single shots. I also used the EVF for almost all shooting, so the rear LCD was on mostly for image review only, while the rated shot life I’m sure uses the rear screen more. Also, since I was using a manual focus lens, there was no power used for lens AF, which I’m sure helped as well.
Otherwise, don’t know. I’ve typically been getting 400+ photos on a charge with my E-M5…the EVF vs rear screen may have a lot to do with it.
In my experience it’s closer to 250…
It’s shot equivalence! 😉
Cheeky fella 🙂
This had been a free gift of a Hong Kong magazine around a couple of month before…..but it is a very nice camera model….I have bought one (magazine) for the camera and the camera is placed on my working desk…..
If I remember……the magazine is around us$2.5…..
duplicated….please delete….
This had been a free gift of a Hong Kong magazine around a couple of month before…..but it is a very nice camera model….I have bought one (magazine) for the camera and the camera is placed on my working desk….
If I remember……the magazine is around us$2.5…..
Duplicate….please delete….
Slight O/T.
“Right, but I have a 1D”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJqHPHLExo
It’s a free gift that came with a weekly magazine in Hong Kong…
Check-out Damian McGillicuddy’s Motorcycle Racing shots from the Isle of Man TT http://www.damianmcgillicuddy.com/journal/2012/6/3/now-for-something-completely-different.html Both frozen-in-time high shutter speed and panning blurred-background shots.
even the 240pixel shots do not look critically sharp
I love my EM-5 as much as the next person but this website is like the Fox News of photography.
I have that, I got it from Melbourne Photography expo!
Hi guys.
The mini OM was part of the “show bags” olympus gave away at the “digital show” just on in Melbourne Australia.
Also DO NOT bid on ikea camera. If u really want one WAIT they are selling them in stores. I got Ikea’s “Life” catalogue in mail box weeks back and it was in there. Was at their springvale store in melbourne and senior staff memeber advised in stock july august. DO NOT waste ya money on that bid
Thanks Robert (I’m in Sydney). They were giving them away on the UK E system sight to it’s UK members & someone mentioned them being available on ebay, so I ordered one (black) at a cost of $15 posted from Hong Kong. It is beautiful in it’s detail & now I’d like a silver one too. 🙂
Well, there are sports and there are ‘sports’. Try catching a moving ball when it hits the racket of a pro tennis player next time, without multiple exposure.