Olympus released a new firmware update for the E-P5. It improves remote wifi shooting.
Olympus released a new firmware update for the E-P5. It improves remote wifi shooting.
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Gooood. I was waiting for this update, but not really aspecting it.
OK…I live in the USA and this update was not on the Olympus USA website (the site says that there are no firmware updates for the E-P5 on the Olympus E-P5 support page. ….would have been nice to have a link listed in the post. The update is on the Olympus UK site. Here is the link: http://www.olympus.co.uk/site/en/c/cameras_support/help/firmware_updates/index.html
I used my Olympus Digital Camera Updater Version 1.06, connected my E-P5 to my Mac via the Olympus USB cable, followed the steps and everything worked just fine. At least I have the firmware (Ver.1.3) loaded onto my camera and I have updated my Olympus Image Share App on my iPad. I turned everything on, and it worked as expected….nice to have all of the extra control of the camera…BUT (there is always a BUT…LOL!)…I have a full-size ipad and when viewing thru the camera the image is not very clear….very organic looking or something…as soon as you take the shot, the image loads to my iPad VERY quickly and it is very clear …but only after I have taken a photo.
Hope that helps.
Well, that confirms my theory that they weren’t quite ready 100% with this feature and rushed it to beat the gx7 to market.
Nevertheless, I’m super stoked about the update!
Yes! Thank you Oly:)
But unfortunately you forgot to update the video bitrate. Hopefully a update will surface, that will make the E-P5 video quality equal to E-M10 and E-M1.
Wow. Great small news
great – and now a firmware addressing shutter/IBIS issues perhaps?
since they don’t acknowledge any such issues, there won’t be a firmware fix advertised for it. if the issues do exist, and they do fix them, it will more likely be buried in this firmware update without saying anything about it.
Best be grateful then. 😉
Goodonya Admin. I thought this was worth sharing & highlighting. This should help with the attractiveness of the E-P5 too (hopefully).
I have not experienced the ‘dpreview’ issue with IBIS. The perceived issue will most certainly have kept many buyers from the excellent E-P5.
It would be nice if Olympus extended the 99 frames time-lapse to 999 (as on E-M10 and E-M1). This seems like a very easy to fix firmware change.
Plus 1000. I have had no IS blur issue with my camera. I am not saying that DPR did not…but could it have been a bad batch of cameras as I know they tested more than one????? This is such a great camera …I sold off my E-M5…for me this was much better with the V-F4 mounted on it. Just a fluid shooting experience…wonderful actually.
Most people don’t shoot compact cameras at 1/100s from tripod as DPR did.
Great news. It appears that it is now up to at least E-M1 standards for Wi-Fi features. Now if they could just improve the E-M1 Wi-Fi to include HDR bracketing as an option.
Just upgraded yesterday and it works like a charm. Now I can select shooting mode, speed, aperture, iso, straight from my phone. Huge improvement! The PEN5 was already so enjoyable, but now I’m stoked.