The GF5 and E-PM1 size comparison from Quesabesde.
Soundimagesplus (Click here) has plenty of E-m5 testing articles. PCmag (Click here) posted a full E-M5 review: “The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is the best Micro Four Thirds camera we’ve tested.“. Sample photos at ePhotozine (Click here). E-M5 image smaples at Pantip (Click here). Another ISO test at Lepidi (Click here). E-M5 (Pre)order links (Click on store name): Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Japan and Digitalrev.
Japanese Olympus 12mm lens review at Itmedia (Click here).
Panasonic GF5 review at Quesabesde (Click here for the translation). Full GF5 image samples at Focus Numerique (Click here).
23 Responses
When is the GF5 being released? And when will it get to the States?
Why is the 12mm so expensive? Why is there such a big gap between the 12 and 45mm? Why did I buy the G3 and not the 12mm plus a cheap used body?
I cant explain your toolish behaviour
PCMag review is dead on.
Hi all,
Admin, i don’t know if this is alright with you. If it’s not just delete the post.
I have been utilizing this site for a few years now and it has been so helpful that I thought I would go here first to sell my E-M5. I forgot that I ordered it from Amazon with the 12-50mm, black body. I received my X-Pro 1 yesterday, and today the E-M5 arrived in the mail. After much deliberation (and perhaps 5 shutter actuations on the E-M5) I decided to keep the Fuji. Otherwise, the camera is BNIB.
I am not looking to gouge anyone on this. I would only ask for $1330 (to cover shipping and insurance on my end). Since you don’t know me, and I don’t know you, I suggest you check me out on Ebay. I am selling an X100 right now here http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fujifilm-finepix-x100-extras-/251048160409?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item3a73a2ec99#ht_500wt_1069. You can contact me through through Ebay. I would accept check or cash if local (Philadelphia), or if you trusted me enough to send me a check in the mail. Otherwise, we can do Paypal, but I would have to add an extra 2.9%. If this is an international buyer, the shipping rates would change accordingly and the Paypal percentage goes up to 3.9%.
I understand there is no reason for anyone here to trust me, and if I don’t hear anything soon I will put the camera up on Ebay for about $1500 + Shipping. I just wanted to come here first because I have gotten so much from this site and it has been a (mostly) congenial community.
Edit: also posting on Stevehuffphoto.com as that site has also been quite useful to me, and I know there are a lot of E-M5 fans there as well
Why does it seem some say the E-M5 has terrible high ISO, like the SoundImagesPlus review, while others say it is awesome? Maybe the black version has better sensor? 🙂
http://www.mu-43.com/f42/om-d-high-iso-24896/
Simple: THE one who is telling that THE em5 is great got paid by Olympus.
Pretty sure regular mu-43 forum members, with valid samples proving their point, aren’t paid by Olympus. More like too many people are trying to compare the E-M5 to larger sensors.
Looking the samples taken by GF5, I swear 20mmF1.7 is still one of the best lens ever and I like it.
Where do I get the 20mm/1.7? I have the 20mm/1.8 but 0.1 faster would be great! 😉
Ive never heard of a 1.8 version. Are you sure you arent mixed up?
I enjoyed the PCMag review. Can anyone comment on the 12-50mm lens? Some places have said that it is not much of an improvement in IQ over the 12-42mm kit lens and does not stand out as being very sharp. This review however stated that it is a very sharp lens. Which is right?
Robin Wong did a 12-50 only shoot, did you see the results? http://robinwong.blogspot.jp/2012/03/olympus-om-d-e-m5-pudu-walk.html
And starting with this shot, it + the next 5 shots are with the 12-50 kit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/argyllphotos/7093043671/in/photostream/
Seems decent enough for a $300 water/dust resistant lens.
I’d assume they meant ‘very sharp’ for a kit lens…
It’s a Kit-Lens, relatively slow, weatherproof, has motor-zoom and manual zoom-mode and makro-mode and it’s a Kit-Lens.
Compared to the collapsible Oly-lenses in the retracted positon it’s relatively large. In operation it’s a little bit larger.
I got it with the OM-D Kit, because I wanted a Motor-Zoom for movies. I like it as it is.
And finally it’s a 200 EUR Kit-Lens.
So what is next ? G5 ? Then GH .
What happen to Lux 5 ? Waiting for Leica announcement ?
And the much anticipated very highend camera , known as aka L series ?
Shoot… for those who read my precious post…
Conn’s had a camera reserved for me… but upon inspection realized that it was a black one while I had specifically ordered a silver one (which they had also took note of). So the wait continues…
I got my black one from Conn’s yesterday! Now I just have to learn how to drive the thing. Just messing with it last night, my son asked me how it was at low light, so I took a shot of a dark hallway and the exposure was 4 seconds at ISO 1600 hand held. Not a tack sharp image but amazingly good considering the exposure time.
precious… lol… darn typo…
*previous !
I’ve been using my e-m5 for a whole week now, while people are still comparing the ISO performances between this and other mirrorless cameras, the readers are missing one important feature of the e-m5, the amazing IS. I honestly don’t know if the physical advantages of larger sensor in terms of ISO performance will or can ever be beaten by a smaller sensor, but apparently not in this generation, that we can all agree on. So Olympus realized that, instead of chasing for highest possible ISO, they implemented one of the best inbody image stabilization. With this one I can (8 times out of 10) easily capture sharp images at a shutter speed of 1/3 second.
Just got my black E-M5 last night.
First initial impressions:
Jpegs directly from camera up to 3200 are miles better than my G3 (as expected since Panasonic is not famous for their jpeg rendering) and I would even say that they are on par with the Nikon D700 (a good but not great performer for jpegs). Knowing how much better both the G3 and D700 are in RAW I do not think this comparison will hold.
As far as noise and color rendition is concerned I have no qualms about using it up to iso 3200 (about the same limit I had with the D700). It will be interesting to test if this holds true for DR as well.
I would say that due to the fantastic IBIS it is in practice a better camera (for me) than the D700 (I miss the great OVF though 🙁 ). I do not shoot sports however, a situation where the D700 would (probably) be superior.
I will get back in a few days when I have tried it some more.
But where are the rumors of a E-7? 🙂