Digicameinfo shared the image of an invitation sent by Olympus Taiwan. It confirms that the new E-M1 and 12-40mm lens will be announced at 14:00 (2pm) Taipei time on September 10. To make it easy for you these are the other time zones for major cities:
22:00 (10pm) September 9 in Los Angeles
1:00 (1am) September 10 in New York time
7:00 September 10 in London time
8:00 September 10 in Berlin time
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First time I see “NO COMMENTS” here.
And will be available from…? October, november, december?
I am curious to see how the price and video specs will finally play out.
I remember reading shipping starts in november
because its all written in Chinese.. I translate: time 14 pm to 16:30 Tuesday
Tai bang le !!!
Hey Admin — your post is very late today! I was afraid you broke your leg or something, and you have no internet connection.
C’mon, don’t scare us like that! You know we are addicted, and we need our daily dose of fighting over rumored specs 🙂
Next time, you just say “Hi!” early in the morning. It will be enough to ignite readers to start trolling and fighting…
I think a lot of admin’s posts are scheduled 😉
yes they are. because I am off for work.
I hope the new iPhones 5s and 5c are not going to steal Oly the show.
Then go and find an Apple or Panasonic fanboy site to share your pearls of wisdom on.
Thanks for the advice, Oly fanboy!
HAHAHA! PATHETIC!!!
It’s comments like yours, Stig that makes me hope your beloved Olympus FAILS.
And your comment only brings truth to the light of the bias and hatred for a brand that did nothing to you, aside from making decent cameras… LOL.
Bait, you took it and proved a point.
Spin it the way you see fit… I’m not bothered by it. I find it enjoyable seeing you tight… LOL!
You are a Panasonic fanboy who has been patrolling every Olympus thread for the last couple weeks, sometimes pretending you were a full frame devotee to avoid being found out. No doubt you were one of those who did the same thing when the E-M5 rumours were current news.
It seems the current era of trolling on these forums really only reached significant levels when the E-M5 appeared. I can only surmise you rabid Panasonic fans were happy enough when Olympus was being shafted with yesterdays sensors, but when they got the good stuff and the tables were turned so Olympus pulled ahead, you all collectively (maybe it’s all just you) have been doing your nut in every time there is talk of anything threateningly good being produced by Olympus. It happened with the E-M5, The 75mm f1.8 and now with the E-M1 and 12-40 f2.8.
Just to quote your noisome little self from the thread about a GX7 review:
SIR, I APPLAUD YOU…
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Well said.
Even though I may be called a Panasonic Fanboy, I am one simply in Defense of a great bunch of cameras and a nice system.
Still, I respect what you said. -It’s a Pity that so few Others in the Olympus camp think like you do.
Mr ALLCAPS
132 posts on that thread and not a single reference of the GX7 being inferior to Full Frame, I wonder why.
Now go find a rock and crawl under it, there’s a good boy.
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/serious_fraud_office_to_prosecute_olympus/
It made me smile 🙂
Mr ALLCAPS
Don’t feed the troll!
people have realised that the iPhone was at one time an innovation, now its an old idea and Apple have milked it for all it’s worth. Only the most servile of fanboi will give a shit about the new ithing they dribble out in a week or so.
I think they’re much worse though.
Can’t wait to git rid of my POS Galaxy S4 laggy phone and go back to an iphone. Crap wifi radio , slow response time, poor software, poor battery life, bad button placement, screen that can barely be viewed on full bright in the day. I don;t see much innovation anywhere but the Galaxy is all fluff and useless features.
Strange my s4 has non of these probs and with auto brightness still readable in the sun (had iphone never looker back)
Sorry to say, but the E-M1 is DOA for me. I would have seriously bought this camera for all that it has, but simply cannot be persuaded by the lackluster video specs. I will wait, likely in vain, for a firmware upgrade. Otherwise, this is a disappointment to say the least.
+1000
your eyes refresh at 24/25hz?
Who knows?
Your Blu-rays do for example.
Thank you for telling us. I, and I am sure many others, wake up in the morning with feverish urge to know what some anonymous stranger on internet will or will not buy.
Woke up in the morning? you must be kidding! I didn’t sleep at all! 😀
Surely the EM1 is a stills camera first and foremost and a vid cam second. I am sure a decent (proper) vid cam would be easier to use than a camera such as the EM1 anyway.
I’ve been in the market for a new camera to replace my GH2. I just bought a GH3. The video specs for this camera made the decision for me. That, and the fact that I got it for $999 and the OMD1 is going for $1,500. I have Oly 4/3 glass, and I’d love to use it on an Oly body that can take advantage of phase detection AF, but video is more important to me.
I may get the Oly 12-40 lens, though, over the Pany 12-35.
Meh, after the horrible video specs (no 1080p60, 720p120, WTF!) I feel kind of let down and am leaning now more towards a 6D + E-PM2/3 combo instead of an E-M1.
I’ll wait until september 10th though, and Oly better dazzle me or no E-M1 for me…
An EM1 or a 6D? HUH? (2 different universes?).
…and your name is Nikonshooter?
Well I have a d800,d600,etc. and plenty of lenses but I considered getting into a new system and either get a smaller/lighter camera that has all kinds of bells and whistles (like good video) or one with better high iso and a smaller cheaper one to go with it.
And because m43 has some really great lenses (like the 20mm, 75mm, and most likely the upcomming 12-40mm) I considered the E-M1.
But if the video sucks (and I think it does, because the video quality of the e-m5 I saw on youtube was somewhat bad: artifacts, picture turning to mush and strange color banding) I think I might just go with plan 2 and get me a high iso monster (like the 6D and maybe the 24-105 and 50 1.2) and a small m43 cam like the e-pm2 or hopefully soon anounced e-pm3.
Either way, daddy has some cash to burn so olympus better not cut any corners
🙂
Your judging the e-m5 video quality on a video you saw on YouTube. Do you have any idea how much compression YouTube uses?
You might want to try the GH3 if you’re after really good video specs. I’ve shot video under a number of conditions and it’s never let me down.
WOW!
(I am still shooter only…never video)
I have an extensive 5DIII Kit…and got into MFT heavily as a complementary smaller, light-weight system…LOVE IT!
Have an OMD and selling my GX1, which is being replaced with an EP5 this evening. (CAN’T WAIT!).
Inform me. …so the video must suck on the D800, D600 (I know nothing about Nikon)…is that why you are considering a 6D, for video?? I am confused as to why you would want so many platforms.
My D800 is great but its also really heavy and bulky. Thats why I considered branching into a lightweight system that I can use casually all the time and also fulfills my video needs and also makes great stills.
Thats why I consider going the m43 way.
The only question I have is wether to invest big time (e-m1) or only a little (e-pm2/3) and get something else like the 6d.
Well…if you have a larger format camera…the whole point in gettting into MFT is to have a smaller system that rocks so you don’t have to get out the big guns all the time but still come home with the goods. IMHO the best cameras in the quiver here and the two that I have OMD and (er..about to have in two hours, when the UPS man gets here, LOL!) E-P5… They are both pretty small but have the best sensor AND the 5-Axis image stabilization …which really lets you get the goods in low light. People will argue that …so that is just my opinion.
The M1 has the same sensor…but for me, is too much camera for me in the MFT Arena..if I am going there …I will just pick up my 5DIII and be done with it.
MFT’s real strength is the lenses…there are great ones…so if you want to spend money..you definitely can!!!!!
Man, are you a high-flier… Olympus video capabilities are good enough to record a footage for a Hollywood big screen movie but your requirements and standards are so much higher! And you also possess incredible analytic powers, being able to judge those capabilities by one clip you’ve seen on youtube. Just wow. Have a look, o clairvoyant one:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/oima_secretariatpen.asp
Thanks for that link. Very interesting to hear him talk about how he used these cameras.
Well said ATTN idiots. Amazing how professional DOP’s have no problem with the video specs but amateurs do.
You’re an idiot.
I don’t want to make a hollywood production but capture casual video in the real world and to that in good quality. And that means not planning and retaking the shot until its perfect. I want to capture the moment and not waste time fiddling with the camera to do what I want.
And I haven’t seen just one clip but *quite* a few and also downloaded some from some review pages and let me say it in simple terms that even you (who doesn’t even have an e-m5 or you’d know what I am talking about) can understand it:
I EXPECTED MUCH MORE!
The ibis is great but the other things I mentioned are not!
I mean, no 1080p60! What is this? The middle ages?
some Nikon shooters are among you! They think a camera that can produce Hollywood big screen movie quality footage is not good enough for their casual video clips. Because, you know, occasional family member or youtube visitor will say “tsk tsk tsk, what was that NikonShooter thinking filming this masterpiece for eternity in such crappy format and bitrate. And I hoped to watch this many times over the next 25 years, and leave it to my kids and grandkids… but now… woe is me.”
In the real world you can shoot video without 1080p60.
If you are interessded in video, buy a video cam ;-)!
Actually I considered that too, but I prefer to not carry to many cams around with me and tbh I am quite disappointed by the current video cams on the market.
I’d like an expensive and small high-end video cam but the small ones are all cheap and unfortunately just plain crap and the larger ones with decent quality are just so bulky and heavy that I’d rather pass.
So having some decent video on a cam I already carry around with me is a big fat plus and I’m willing to pay if it delivers.
GH3?
Sure, pocket cinema camera is crap…
The Problem with camcorders is you can’t use them without rig
It would work with IBIS but olympus refuses to implement better video…
Panasonic actually had a 5-axis IS system in some of its camcorders before the E-M5 came to market though I have never used one so I cant comment on performance .
IBIS is not the same as a rig. They will not do the same job.
That would be fine if decent video was not available in multiple other cameras many at a fraction of this price.Perhaps it is even more important on a camera that professes to be a “Pro” model as in many photographic endeavors video footage is becoming increasingly demanded
Agreed fully, mate.
It’s probably the camera with the shortest life cycle in history. After an initial euphoria and a sobering disappointment, by the 10th the E-M1 will be considered last year’s model and everybody will start wondering about its replacement.
The E-M5 is the first m43 camera that does not make me lust for the next model. While it does have some slight limitations that the E-M1 seems to address, I’m more than willlng to pass on buying it, or at the least I’ll wait for the deep discounts.
+1 I bought the E-M5 simply because it ticked all the boxes I needed.
Still only rumors, so both the “initial euphoria” and “sobering disappointment” can be equally wrong. We will se next tuesday. I’m one of the dinosaurs with a couple of 4/3 lenses. If it really can focus well with them, I will buy one, if it can’t, my E-3 and E-M5 will be no worse than they were before these rumors.
I will probably buy one too. Sold my E-5 yesterday for a pathetic price. Six months ago it would have fetched twice as much.
It is a pity that sensors are not upgradeable parts as the E-5 is a superbly built camera, especially for the current used prices
I absolutely agree the the E-5 is a superb camera. I went from the E-5 to a 5DII and now I really miss the E-5! In so many ways the E-5 is a smarter and more practical camera than the 5DII… I only switched brand for the fullframe sensor! I regret it and are prepared to sell my Canon gear if the new EM1 is any near to be a camera as the E-5 is! (And I hpoe my english is understandable) 🙂
hi marketing guys, for sure this is the wrong day (I guess).
On this day the new iPhone will be launched!
Will Olympus be sending me an invitation?
There’s still a little surprise, isn’t there?! Well, maybe it’s a personalized code for those who preorder the e-m1 to download the latest firmware in order to get better video codecs such as 24p, 25p, 1080p60 with 48mbit etc. 🙂
I’d love 1080p60 with a high bitrate.
And when there will be quite a few cheap 4k video devices on the market this year why not put that in there too?
I wonder if anyone will film it?
Not on an Olympus camera!
pff happy i am not in video, but i will wait for the first reviews and not only the ones from the like of dpr but the real user experience with the 43 swd glass.
Stil hoping Oly will also release a new lens map which transfers a big part of the zuiko 43 to more compact m43 build.
I wonder if it will be available in silver and black?
Also, any idea on when it will be available for purchase. 🙂
Yes, and November has been mentioned.
Not interested in the specifications, price and won’t be buying it – just want to see the unboxing video – I find them more satisfying than actually capturing images these days.
Watching those videos would be a lot cheaper too !
well, the video will be taken in a European living room with artificial lightning on, by an EM-5/EP-5, so it will terribly flickery and you will get so sick you will need some medication. Please don’t watch that! 1) Unboxing -> 2) toilet bowl
Except for the lack of a fully tiltable screen, this camera looks really promising. If it really can focus FT-lenses properly, I will get one for sure. I can’t deny that I really love my E-3, but regarding dynamic range and high-ISO noise, it is simply too old-fashioned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23955003
Meanwhile parisians (maybe in other cities) can look at this commercial from Apple (for IPad):
http://olympustrip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2266.jpg
“You can get all this in an IPad” is it?
Sorry, but not interested anymore, unless the video is improved.
Ok we filed your point. You may now leave this thread.
Thanks and have a nice day.
(btw: who cares?)
Was gonna work my ass off to afford a E-M1. But now, to get usable video quality i need to downgrade from E-M5 to Lumix G6, instead of upgrading to E-M1. That is very silly Olympus. Or should i wait for the Nex 7 successor. Damn it, at least let Panasonic use the 5 axis ibis, then i wouldn’t need to have get rid of all the m43 lenses.
Stop kidding and be a real man: save a little bit more, keep your em-5 for stills, and buy yourself a REAL m43 pro video camera like this one http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/AG-AF100A.asp
Well, at $5000 the AG-AF100A, me thinks that em-1 is, after all, quite “usable video quality” for cat movies (I love YouTube)…
Im afraid AG-AF100A isn´t a good option in 2013 at all. I’ll soon loan the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, but i heard there are some some really annoying issues with it. The IBIS in E-M5 is amazing and that is mostly why i am so dissapointed at the E-M1 video specs. Im sure on the E-M1, Olympus have fixed the macro blocking issue that plagues the E-M5 but still 30p in PAL countries is virtually useless, unless you like stoboscopes.
I better book some time in my diary! NOT!
I would really like to ask you people: do you think that the GH3 steals market share from the E-M1?
I don’t think so, but I might be wrong. Oly clearly thinks that what matters is the occasional video, made as intuitively as possible, perhaps in a uTube format.
If you need pro TV you’d rather get a GH3 or a dedicated camera. I don’t think that Oly minds:
it must have done some market research. How many GH3 in % of the whole m4/3 market are sold? I bet very few.
Don’t worry there’s nothing rational in here. We already had some posters saying EM-1 would be a failure because of the “left handed” on/off switch 😀
What?? The On/Off switch is on the left?? Oh no no no no no!!! What an epic fail, Olympus, what could you possibly be thinking! Damn you, damn you… my life is never going to be the same, and it’s all your fault!
Now, wouldn’t it be innovative to put the grip on the left & then it could be called “The Murphy Model”. 😉
OK, that wasn’t the best name for it, so just call it the Left Handed Model.
I spoke with some Olympus’s staff ,They know Olympus video is their weak point and
they work to match Pana.
As we had to wait to know E-M1 video spec ,i really hoped it can beat GH3…like a lot of us…
Well, if they work to match Pana, then I’m wondering what they have done the last year? (IF the rumor is correct, that is).
I made the decision to buy a GH3 after I saw the OMD1 video specs.
I guess it depends what your target customer looks like. I know pros are increasingly shifting over to hybrid work (some stills, some video). If Oly wants to chase these folks (as this is supposed to be a pro camera), they’ll have to step up their (video) game with the E-M2.
no I dont, I think high end Panasonic is trivial against high end Olympus
and thats not a matter of one being better then the other
simply an analysis of responses to these rumours is way out of proportion for Olympus
ie. Olympus share is of much more interest, that translates to sales
I’m not sure Sept. 10 is a good date for a tech product announcement; the world press is going to be completely swept up by the Apple announcements that day. This will get lost in the shuffle, at least in much of the world outside of Eastern Asia, this won’t get much press do to that.
What you (or we) don’t realize in our small world, is that Sept ten, might be the day before a huge missile attack on Siria.
Some say the beginning of WW III. Imagine how the poor E-M1 will be drowned by the concern of terrorist attacks with Sarin, and sock exchanges tumbling down.
Oly could not have chosen a worse date 🙂
Is the EM-1 sarin splash proof (for war reporters)?
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to be part of Oly’s test department if that were the case!
So much for my investment in stocking futures 🙁
yes they could
Sept 12
Got to say this Olympus Pro Camera has got people really talking good old Olympus and to top it buy one of there 40yr old primes 50mm f1.4 and put it on its as good as the 75mm 1.8 now Olympus know exactly what there doing Hail Olympus hip hip hooray ………….. Bring it on im ready
Glad to see the On-Off switch on the left, just like the 35mm film days. The black lever with the white strip that they are using for the On-Off switch is copied straight off my 35mm film OM-2. In fact, the straight down view of the top left also is reminiscent of the top left shape of the film OM cameras. And back many years ago, the OM-1 35mm camera was originally to be called M-1. But some other manufacturer objected (I think it was Leica) because that firm already had a model named M-1; so Olympus changed the name to OM-1 when it was introduced.
Yeah, it’s just a bit weird that the numbering goes backwards (E-M1 is to some degree a replacement for the E-M5). Would have made more sense if we were awaiting the announcement of the E-M2 to replace the E-M1.
Still, makes more sense than Canon’s naming scheme (at least in the U.S.).
24p is not just for professionals. 24p has a different look to 30p/60i/60p. When watching 30p it feels like traditional broadcast video, live TV, etc. When watching 24p it feels like a cinematic movie. Why are average consumers not entitled to shoot 24p? Even for home movies, I want to do it in 24p. The format has been around forever and is accepted as a standard WORLDWIDE. DVDs were 24p (properly made ones) BD’s are 24p. Every new major production film and indie films are 24p. Videos will play (and look correct) on everyone’s hardware. Modern TV’s will sync natively at 24p worldwide, and require no frame-rate conversion or smoothing to playback. Even for something as trivial as home videos, it’s nice to know they are in the most standard format, that will be most compatible many decades from now. Again, the look itself is unique. Try watching your favorite movies converted to 30p and it will just look wrong.
It’s not just the cinematic look, 24/25p is a must in PAL countries even if you shoot only cat videos. Electric lights flicker like crazy in 30p, i hate that strobe effect. Getting flicker free footage fom example from some indoor birthday party would be impossible.
Is it the same with fluorescent and incandescent light? And what about LED?
if the Hz rate is 50Hz, 30p is unsuitable
If the shutter speed is set to 1/50 or 1/100 when shooting 30p, is there still flickering under artificial lighting at 50Hz?
No, but then you are breaking the 180degree shutter rule and you loose the cinematic motion blur.
I just thought I’d bring it up.
yes
Really?
Yes, I learned something too. At a certain shutter speed indoor lights flickr in Europe, and this is related to the frequency of the grid, which is different from the US.
25p is to slow ,i always shoot in 30p in Europe even in low light.
No problem for me…
Also “In Japan, the western part of the country (Kyoto and west) uses 60 Hz and the eastern part (Tokyo and east) uses 50 Hz.”(from wiki)and camera have usualy 30p only…
Thanks for the info. I learned something today. 🙂
Do you think this camera will be on the market by end September, do hope so,
All the rumors to date have been along the lines of September announcement / November availability. This would mesh with what happened for the E-M5 (March announcement / late May availability).
As a general rule, “this camera” will always be orderable before you have the money, and delivered to you the week after your biggest photo opportunity for the year. But even if it does arrive in time, it will be so different from your last camera – you will miss shots trying to figure out how to change the “whatever-setting” or forget to remove the lens cap half the time.
Seriously, very few companies announce things like this and have them available to buy within a month. Apple is a notable exception, but even that depends on where you live. Of course, I hope I’m wrong.
Who’s doing Olympus’ PR? A camera launch on the same the day as an iPhone launch?
Yes this anoucment should shadow apples anoucment well it will in this house deffo
I think the 10th in Taiwan will be the 9th in the California
That is correct. If my memory serves me, this time of the year Tapai, is 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles/Seattle time and 12 hours ahead of New York time so this announcement will precede the Apple IPhone announcement by about 11 hours, California time.
Each announcement will reach their markets. All the hype here about Olympus being overshadowed is BS. Yes the Apple announcement will get more media time. Nothing new there. But they would overshadow just about anyone with the all the hype already being put out by mainstream media. Olympus will have a window to get their message out though. Nikon, Canon, Sony would all have the same issues.
102.9.10 means 10th Sept year 102 of Republic of China
Haven`t see this way of years numbering for a long time.
Have to admit to being ambivalent about this launch. I think that it is maybe the use of the word ‘Pro’ has certainly raised expectations., When I think of ‘Pro’ I think of the Canon 1 series cameras which encapsulate the state of the art for that company. Pouring every ounce of their capabilities at a particular time into their flagship product. Cameras that (with the possible exception of the ill-fated 1DIII) are stiill used years after they were launched. Looking at the specs for the E-M1, I am not getting that ‘feeling’ – but a camera is more than specs.
Whilst the lack of e.g. video modes and dual card slots are considered sub-pro bordering on the down-right disappointing ( I declare my bias in that for me I shot over 10 000 images last year and maybe 2 minutes of video), it is clear that when it comes to the rest of the spec Olympus have put in their best sensor, best image stabilisation, fastest processor, biggest, highest resolution viewfinder, WiFi control, PDAF and support for 43 lenses. Add to that potentially the best zoom lens so far created natively for the m43 system. All very nice. I think that a shutter rated at > 100 000 actuations with full silent mode would be a nice touch and a RAW color depth of 14 bits would be welcome but maybe not technically feasible.
For me the big test for this camera is if AF object tracking works in the hybrid CDAF/PDAF mode with native m43 lenses. That will be the killer feature and a step forward for m43. It also reinforces (for me) that this is a serious stills camera as at home with running, screaming kids as with serene static landscapes. Everything else is gravy. If not though … ooops.
If the image object tracking works, you can have my money (but please, can I have an option to buy the E-M1 150€ cheaper without the 43 adapter). If not I guess I’ll buy an E-M5, a bottle of 15 year-old malt, and wait for the E-M1MkII …
I agree that the killer feature is PDAF-on- sensor as a help for action shoots. If you don’t care about 4/3 glass, it’s probably much more convenient to wait for the E-M5 successor that will have it too, without the price hike.
I have CDAF compatible 4/3 lenses, I never use CAF, so I look at my E-M5 and I say: “why should I ever change you dear?” 🙂
Sep 10 Olympus to be prosecuted by UK fraud agency
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23955003
Yep! No surprise there. Just a carryover from the previous problems. It should be noted this is related to the “medical imaging” division not the camera division. At this time, no one is really sure what the impact will be. We may see additional issues over time, all going back to the previous “big issue”.
Go Sigma Foveon. Olympus must go Foveon to survive.
Off topic really, just want to say that I cannot believe how many excellent lens etc out there for mft users,as I have stuck with ft lens only so pretty excited by this camera, I hope it lives up to all this hype, cannot wait to purchase some of these lens etc.also what does foveon mean please.
I don’t care Olympus announcement since reading E-M1 video specs.
In another two hours, Olympus is gonna announce their most talk about MFT mirrorless OM-D E-M1 camera. I understand that Olympus NEW employee, Robin Wong is going to REVIEW this new offer; do you think he is able to give a UNBIAS and SUBJECTIVE review of their new product?