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Olympus released the new OMD and PEN firmware updated (Click here to download them). The only new added “feature” for the E-M5 and new PEN’s is the support for the new VF-4 view finder. Some PEN cameras also got a fix: “Stability of touch panel operation during playback was improved.”
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Em5 owner. COOL now I can put a bigger viewfinder on my existing viewfinder. It’s like the Olympus a Totem Pole on to of my camera!
Yep. Happy to know that if I were mad enough to buy a VF4, I could mate it with an E-M5. Or even use it to mount my E-PL1, although it would keep it’s eyes closed for that duty. Or something.
Thanks Olympus, you made my day for about 30 seconds. Back to the beer…..
Cheers! 🙂
No pocus feaking? Why risk bricking your camera for nothing?
Yeah this is bullshit. The PEN and OM-D line are totally different and it would not hurt at all to add focus peaking and possibly ISO 100.
For E-M5 owners this is a waste of time: who needs a VF- when you have a built-in good EVF, yet no focus peaking? Back to your old tricks, Olympus: nothing new unless you buy a new model (not yet released and when?).
Well, it’s the same song as for GH3 owners. Unfortunately live with the fact, that as long as the feature is not in the specs after release, it won’t be there.
The GH2 had a very big update a year after release, with lots of new features. The GH3 already had a firmware that improved af, intervalometer, direct netbios wifi for pc, faster burst for 3 lenses and added 28mbs 1080p 60fps.
So not quite the same song is it?
Yes… Pocus feaking!
Add the lens IS priority to older pens, assholes!
and add the smaller focus square to the old pens too.
Thank you Olympus
Yes ! I want two viewfinder on my OMD, hope we can use it both at the same time , for two photographers.. 😀
As long as you follow the Updater warning not to attach more than two lenses to the camera
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Hope this helps some folks in conflict.
How did you get the 10% off deal at Ebay. I could not find such an offer.
Thanks
I got one via email. A coupon code for 10%
Has anyone tried the VF-4 on one of the older Pen cameras? Opinions on the “reduced image quality” ?
Updated the firmware, but obviously I don’t know whether it works :). Perhaps in a few weeks. On the positive side, no adverse effects so far.
Woohoo….firmware update. See olympus is listening.
Focus peaking
Assignable and renameable my-sets
Bracketing function on scp
24p/30p/60p
Smaller focus point
Oh wait……
That update will cost a few hundred and bring some new hardware with it.
There’s no reason why they can’t give us 24p right now, other than stupidity.
Well, 24p could actually be dependent on some external codec or DSP chip. Focus peaking, on the other hand, does not – there really is *no* excuse for not including that.
I’m done waiting – I guess I’ll order a NEX-5R today. :/
Nope – I bet my life 24p +25p could be implemented via software change in the ep-1 @720p and in the OMD at 1080p totaly within the capabilities of the current HW…
two e-P2’s now ready for their big-eyed VF-4 views, thanks for the heads up admin! Of course the retail price of the VF-4 costs more than either body, but that just took waiting, and the VF4 a some point will be cheap enough to enjoy that FF-view in high rez …
Is “New Firmware update” too much of the same meaning in one phrase or not?
You may want to check out GrammarRumours.com
Well alright. Looking forward to ver. 1.8.
OOOH! I hope they improved the IBIS!
IBIS has been disable due to complaints emanating from this web site. Seems that it has been decided ‘real’ photographers get their way. No IBIS.
EXCELLENT firmware: the best of the best !
Thanks Oly.
Now that’s a useful upgrade 🙁
Is it that hard to put peaking via firmware? I don’t have an OMD but I’d bought one tomorrow if the upgrade would include peaking.
Admin, is this the firmware update for E-M5 you talked about some times ago ?
Hope not, especially if there’s no direct replacement for E-M5 before at least one year.
There will be NO new firmware for the E-M5.
Maybe if all of us (E-M5 owners worldwide) sign it a petition asking for focus peaking and 24p we can catch Olympus attention.
Alone I just got a NO from them:
Dear Mr. Cabral,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding our product.
While appreciating your interest, we are not thinking of
updating the firmware for OM-D E-M5 at present.
However, we are constantly making efforts to improve our
products. Therefore, we are always grateful for customers’
opinion.
Thank you for taking time to write us, and we are
looking forward to having your continued support.
Best regards,
T. Katagiri
Customer Support Center
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Tokyo, Japan
You could take the first step and create the petition, Admin?
Let’s make some noise!
So, reading between the lines…
Dear Mr. Cabral,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding our product (raucous laughter in the background)…
While appreciating your interest (rolling of the eyes and a mighty big yawn), we are not thinking of updating the firmware for OM-D E-M5 at present (or ever in any serious way).
However, we are constantly making efforts to improve our
products (translation: forget about updates, go buy yet another generation of Olympus products after having just forked over $1300 for your current kit).
Therefore, we are always grateful for customers’
opinion (translate: great product feedback on features that give us yet another small excuse for a “new and improved” model).
Thank you for taking time to write us (another deep yawn), and we are
looking forward to having your continued support (translate: a sucker’s born every day).
Best regards,
T. Katagiri
Customer Support Center (aka, the mail room) and graduate of the Canon Rebel series course in ever-smaller incremental model changes.
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Tokyo, Japan
Try sending them a reference to this site. Then we can all vent here and promise to move to PanaFuji if we don’t get FP retrospectively. No more loyal users. That way they will not get their $1500 per annum from us in the future.
After all that’s what is at stake their future $1500 pa.
In fact5 Admin could ask the question “would you consider leaving Oly if they don’t start retrospectively sending out upgrades such as FP, small area focus etc”
got the same email from them
Dear Mr. Ferraris,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding OM-D functions.
Let us answer your questions.
2. We are not thinking about that function for OM-D by updating
the firmware in the future. However, we are constantly making
efforts to improve our products. Therefore, we are always grateful
for customers’ opinion.
Thank you for taking time to write us, and we are
looking forward to having your continued support.
Best regards,
T. Katagiri
Customer Support Center
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Tokyo, Japan
I really… don’t know… why… they can’t make it easier to access bracketing and double exposure, either with a button or in the SCP. How about getting rid of PREVIEW… doesn’t anyone actually use that?!
Those who play with shallow DOF love it !
where is focus peaking in my E-M5???
Firmware update? Olympus can you hear me?
These features are on our wishlist:
Focus peaking
Assignable and renameable my-sets
Smaller focus points
Better tracking (faster 2D image recognition). Nothing else matters compared to that.
sigh…. ep-1
Olympus will not release focus peaking on E-M5 until the new Pro camera will be launched. I am sure they already have the focus peaking option tested on OM-D, but everything is about marketing. 🙁
In the Cameralabs review of the G6 they mention that focus peaking is not a simple firmware update (hence can’t add it to Panasonic GH3), so maybe that is the reason Olympus can’t do it. So yes, you will need to wait for the nbew OM-D model
Admin please correct this: “only new added “feature” for the E-M5 and -NEW- PEN’s”
The updated for older Pens also includes the support for VF4. 🙂
Nobody here seems to understand the importance of the VF-4. It is the best electronic viewfinder in the market, providing a magnification similar to a full-frame SLR. Who needs an in-focus confirmation like ‘focus peaking’ when you can look in this huge viewfinder and actually *see* which parts are in focus? Like all photographers did before the Auto Focus area?
Let’s hope the next OM-D will have a built-in VF-4; I can live without ‘focus peaking’…
If only it wouldn’t block the flash port…
Because some people have blurred close vision and the VF does not help, but with focus peaking, which is easy to see. When you’re older than 25, you’ll hopefully not find out, but maybe 1 day you wake up older then you’ll know