Continuous shooting test (via DSLRcamera).
Four Thirds User (Click here) tested the fps speed of the E-M5. The good news is that the E-M5 actually shoots 10fps instead of the indicated 9fps on all four tested cards: “Olympus also told us that IS would slow the shooting rate down, which it clearly didn’t. Curiously, two of the higher-specification cards, the Lexar Pro and Kingston XX Ultimate, although they shot 12 frames in the sequence, the last frame took twice as long to register as the previous one, so we excluded it, only counting the 11.”
This has to be a marketing trick from Olympus to get positive feedback from reviews 😉 Thanks FourThirdsUser for sharing that interesting test!
Some more E-M5 bits:
The latest Robin Wong E-M5 review created a lot of buzz and Robin clarified a couple of things on his blog (Click here). P.S: Personal message for Robin: You are doing a great job! Don’t care too much about negative or non sense critics! It’s the price you pay for the popularity 😉
Gabrielle Motola contacted me yesterday because you bad 43rumors readers made crash her website 🙂 She now managed to restore it! Seriously speaking, she was happy you visited the blog 😉
One more fashion image taken with the E-M5 at Damian Mcgillicuddy (Click here). No nude pic that time 😉
E-M5 preorders:
Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, J&R, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Deutschland and Amazon Japan.
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Olympus need to do alot of work with Olympus viewer regarding the working of the art filters eg you can’t apply them to jpegs…
…also it might be an idea for Olympus to licence them to the likes of Corel, Adobe, Silkypix etc for photo and video editing software and to app makers like Eyeem, instragram etc for a fee – could create some much needed profit 😀
Also Oly or Panny should design flashes with dials on them…
Robin Wong shouldn’t worry about the haters claiming he is too enthusiastic about the E-M5 I think it’s the actual product itself that has created the online excitement, hopefully the E-7 and the GH3 will do the same (I suspect they will).
> eg you can’t apply them to jpegs…
For a good reason, mind you. The same reason why you shouldn’t do severe white balance correction on jpeg’s.
@Me
I do my white balances on camera and get perfect 98% of the time, I think the art filters not being able to be applied to jpegs is a different issue….
I guess “perfect” is a quite loose term then. 😀
@Me
I have to be in pretty difficult mixed lighting conditions for me not to get white balance right, I judge white balance and adjust accordingly as I take every shot, not hard to do with a bit of practice and knowing your cameras… 😀
Keep in mind that with 8 bits per channel there’s not as much head room in a JPEG as there is in the 12 bits per channel of a raw, so if you did apply art filters to JPEG’s, you would be much more likely to get banding and other artifacts.
isn’t that what Photoshop is for?
@ Anentropic
no, photoshop is now for only editing videos http://youtu.be/PD3sh6iT72Y 😉
The FL50 has two dials.
@ Agent00soul
lol OK thanks for that didn’t realise, taking a look now 😀
Wow. Faster than I’ll ever use, but very nice thank you.
Awesome , i want to try that with my 12-60 , it will be real cool ^^
What with the black outs? It is hard to see what you are taking pictures of when the screen is almost continues black. Otherwise pretty fast.
…funny boy…;)
ever heard of this thing called shutter?
Tought you get black out with mirror flipping as well. Isn’t it?
Ever heard of EVF lag? The EVF can’t refresh sufficiently fast and you don’t get anything close to a real-time image. Even a DSLR with a flapping mirror does better, since the image you see is a real-time image. Sure, it’s flickering due to the mirror flapping, but that’s still preferable to the electronic image having to play catch up.
Well they didn’t use the EVF. The black out was with the LED screen as far as I saw.
So you are saying then that for some miraculous reason the back display does not have to refresh the same as the display in the EVF? 😉 Every display lags. How much it lags means a difference in usability.
Just one quick point. Whilst I don’t agree with Robin Wong’s views on peaking with macro photography, I think all the accusations about Robin being an Olympus shill were out of order. He’s obviously just an enthusiast, and the whole question of any connection with Olympus or anyone else is just irrelevant. As I originally said I enjoy his reviews and I find them very useful for getting an impression of how the equipment performs in the hands of an average enthusiast. I wish there were more reviews like that and not less. The points I made about macro photography were just meant as an aid to interpreting Robin’s findings and pointers on improving technique.
Completely agree. Yet another critique is coming from this guy (http://soundimageplus.blogspot.com/)
“Finally I wish people would be a little more circumspect with the things that they write and consider whether they have the experience and evidence to support what they say.”
We are talking about a personal blog where the author, Robin Wong, stated clearly where he comes from and what kind of review it is. And the author of Soundimageplus “deduced” his opinion on the new Fuji camera from a few online samples. Talk about hypocrisy.
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@ admin…that is cool but when you wrote ”Gabrielle Motola contacted me yesterday because you bad 43rumors readers made crash his website 🙂 She now managed to restore it!”…you called her ‘his’^ …:-)
the proper setting should be ”Made HER website crash.”
I think that Gabrielle is a he : if he was a she it would be Gabriella. Although, I’m not entirely sure.
Yes, as is Robin. Too many confusing lady-man names …. unlike Anna. 😉
Im not sure as the admin mentioned she twice after the mistake so….
No, Gabrielle is a female name in French.
Gabriela is the same female name in Spanish.
The male version is Gabriel (In French, Spanish and English)
Yes, I agree about Gabrielle being a female name in French (that is my native language, how could I disagree), but Motola sounds Italian and in Italian a female name would be Gabriella.
Sorry Anna, but Italian is my native language and Motola does not sound Italian at all to me. An “a” at the end of a name does not make it Italian. Furthermore, the masculine version of Gabriella in Italian is Gabriele, not Gabrielle.
Gabrielle is a she in French, Gabriella is a she in Italian. A he would be named Gabriel in French (and in Spanish and, I think, in English too) and Gabriele (with one l) in Italian. In Spanish and German Gabriela (one l) is a she. To me Ms Motola is clearly a she.
I know a guy named Maria. 😉
Isn’t e.g Pedro Maria a male name, and Maria Pedro a female name?
Sure, but I was thinking of German actor Günther Maria Halmer. In German, and I bet in most languages, Maria is usually a female name. Then there’s a boy named Sue… 😉
picture of Gabrielle Motola she is a girl!http://www.flickr.com/photos/youdidntdidyou/5936206702/in/photostream me and @voiceoverguy met HER last year 😀
But is she Italian or French.! 😛
Or Swiss, or Belgian, or Canadian? Or a French speaker from Maine or Louisiana? 😉
In her home page she says she is from Florida.
I always have to say to myself….I will not preorder…. I will not preorder…. I will not preorder….. I will not preorder…. I will not preorder….. NoNoNo… Be a good boy…. I will not preorder
I said the same to myself… I’ve preordered 3 weeks ago 😉
I said the same thing and I pre-ordered last week!
Do not think of a Pink Elephant!
What is TR ? in the CAF +TR comment in the video ?
TR = Tracking
thank you 🙂
Harold
Tracking focus.
Would be nice to see the 45mm F1.8 @ 1.8 do this test.
It would realy show the full story better.
And lose the crap 303 loop…
Why do people have to inflict their music on us… it does not portray a cool self image, as the user intends – it just makes it cheep!
Just like every milatary/bike/skate/fail video (on u tube) with hard core music… what is that, to scare us? or make us think you are just bad ass… Either way, unless its composed for it, music is lame in videos – you are not making a corpret sales video, even if you were we all know how shit they are too…
I mean how many people, when on u tube hit the mute 70% of the time ASAP…
So please no music on videos – just natural sound please! – rant over!
+1. That was the first thing that I thought of when watching the video. Lousy crap music that adds zero value.
Just playing devil’s advocate, I didn’t think the music was that bad or inappropriate… at least it wasn’t “Born Free” or some such. A big part of the fun of making videos is attempting to fit the right soundtrack to help convey the mood your looking for. Nothing wrong with spicing up this puppy. Wouldn’t dis somebody for tryin’
yes and the next Journal of Physics D paper I write will be in crayon, hay it needs spicing up!
I don’t care weather its good or bad music, not the issue… there is no “mood” to set – this is not a film?
Seems like Olympus is understating the abilities of the E-M5 in more ways: At the bottom of the entry 4/3user writes that “Four Thirds lenses do indeed focus faster in the E-M5”. Let’s wait how much faster they actually will be. Pen&Tell already mentioned that it was usable but how fast is that in fact?
Does this mean th em-5 could potentially do sweep panorama??
@yuki
yes but I don’t think Olympus have nailed the stitching yet!!!
nice video.. but *&!)%)#*$ music
i will thank the poster for this video, helping me to make a buying decision … i don’t get why always need to :critics” in every single post, don’t like the music?, do i as i did, no audio.
yeh shaw no audio – then we cant hear the shutter sounds!
But still just because we have a mute button, and we are not affraid to use it, does not mean we should be bombarded with peoples lame idea of what “cool” is… why bother wasting your time clicking and draggin that mp3 onto the video track??? – yes in your small groupe of friends i bet its soooo coool and everythone thinks you are da man cus you have bangin tunz… but you know what… your just needy and lame!
Still respect for making the video – not dissing the work – just wish people would leave out the music…
haters will hate, damn it, this is not about music in videos, but about the focus capabilities and speed focusing of the omd5.
exactly – so leave the music out….
I’m no hater… I totaly appreciate all that is being shown, and the time it takes to film, edit, deduce numbers and output the video…
This is good stuff, deffinatly! But like you said it was not about music!
Music on videos is becoming like adverts on TV… and just as frustrating… although I can appriciate the product the addvert I can do without (even good adverts are still bloody addverts)!
One should put this high speed fps mania into perspective considering that a mechanical shutter is used not an electronic or global one. Oly has said the EM-5 shutter is not up to pro 150,000 duty cycle life and some say about 100,000 cycles. Well at 9 fps over 30 seconds buffer that mean you can exercise your camera at most 370 times before potential shutter failure and you need to buy another camera? The camera and expensive large capacity memory chip manufactures surely pleased with this prospect of higher fps.
While pros may justify the need for very high fps or others for other special purposes do the majority of photographers really need anything faster than 5 fps at most and after all you have to do a lot of deleting of all those unwanted frames and require much larger capacity memory cards.
That was a lot of nonsense. What is your point?
It made sense to me.
Ok, but why? The whole first paragraph is an accurate, yet strange calculation. What is its purpose?
“at 9 fps over 30 seconds buffer that mean you can exercise your camera at most 370 times before potential shutter failure”
Is that supposed to be a plausible usage scenario?
About the second one – makes more sense, but deleting a few frames is hardly that much of a problem and memory cards are relatively cheap nowadays. With the OM-D battery you’ll probably barely manage to fill 8GB with Raw files.
First in answer to at 9 fps for 30 seconds “is that a plausible usage scenario”? Maybe not except for sports or wildlife photographers. Many on this and other forums keep asking for higher fps and longer buffers. I am afraid if I buy this camera which I am very tempted to do, I would use its higher fps capacity a lot so am concerned at what potential effect that might have on the shutter life as I tend we keep my many cameras a long time. To catch the perfect shot in sports I think one might quickly exceed the shutter cycle rating but obviously not the case for the average user. One alternative is to use a small compact superzoom which have an electronic shutter and fast fps or extract individual frames from video but at substantially reduced resolution. If one does intend to do a lot of high speed fps useage one should consider waiting for the electronic or global shutter to come?
As to the question of deleting frames I for one do find that an issue. My DSLRs only do 3-4 fps and to avoid missing a shot when shooting action I leave the fastest fps on. As a result even with 3 fps I very frequently get two shots when trying to take only one. Furthermore after making a lot of deletions of unwanted pictures or duplicates the order of the pictures is all mixed up as newer pictures are taken and fill the vacateed spaces and this does not make for good slide shows without a lot of editing.
As for cost, yes the lower capacity memorary chips are indeed surprisingly cheap nowdays but for now the fastest higher capacity ones can easily set you back a couple hundred of dollars. I normally use 4GB memory chips and even then so many pictures that it is harder to locate a wanted individual shot.
My comments were also geared to how much is enough? First we had the megapixel race, then the high ISO race beyond reason (after all don’t you lose DR with every increase in ISO?), and now very high frames per second. The biggest advantage I see here is the advantage for fast multiple pictures for HDR modes and slow motion playback. Yes I want that capacity but not at the expense of shutter life.
Again thank you for commenting.
They said they would not guarantee it. Not that it would not do it.
I think Oly was telling the public that the the EM-5 at 5 fps the IBIS could keep up. The fact that you can get to 9 fps with IBIS still on does not mean that is effective at that speed or that the EVF is reflecting the real time situation?