Following yesterdays news abut the Silver E-M5 shipment delay (coming via Olympus Japan) our reader Johannes shared the shipment date of the E-M5 in Sweden. And there seems to be indeed a longer delay on the Silver version:
Black w. 12-50: Within 1 week
Black: May 3rd
Silver w. 12-50: May 25th
Silver: No delivery date
Holland: I don’t have many dutch readers on 43rumors but if you are one of them than you should know that your local stores are already having the first E-M5 cameras in Stock. The picture you see on top has been sent to me by Fotohanskeuzekamp. And also CameraNu and Kamera Express have some of them. If you find more European stores having the camera in Stock feel free to help 43rumors readers by commenting this post! Thanks!
One more news: Rolf Silber posted one more video shot with the Nokton 17.5mm. You can find it here on vimeo. There are also new Nokton auctions in [shoplink 30452 ebay]Germany and Japan through eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Some E-M5 preorder links in Europe:
Black E-M5 body at Amazon DE (Click here), Amazon UK (Click here), Jessops (Click here) and Warehouseexpress (Click here).
Silver E-M5 body at Amazon DE (Click here), Amazon UK (Click here), Jessops (Click here) and Warehouseexpress (Click here).
Black E-M5 with 12-50mm lens at Amazon DE (Click here), Amazon UK (Click here), Jessops (Click here), [shoplink 30334 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Warehouseexpress (Click here).
Silver E-M5 with 12-50mm lens at Amazon DE (Click here), Amazon UK (Click here), Jessops (Click here), [shoplink 30333 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Warehouseexpress (Click here).
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Of course, I pre-ordered a silver w 12-50 kit. Bummer…
Of course, I pre-ordered silver w/out kit. Bigger bummer. 😐
Of course, I pre-ordered a silver w/ 12-50 kit in IRELAND. Uber-Bummer.
They just extended the ‘purchase before 30 April to get a free grip’ to something like late May.
And I pre-ordered the day pre-orders were accepted in that store.
Conn’s, by any chance?
That’s a nice camera huh ;-).
i am one of the dutch members, I pre-ordered one from Konijnenberg but canceled it. KameraExpress did call me to invite me for one of the OM-D workshops.
I’m Dutch too!
So am I!
Gefeliciteerd ! U mag door voor de wasmachine.
Too many Dutch on this blog.
😉
I’m dutch and I got that one 🙂
With black 12-50mm
yeah Admin, what do you mean with ‘few Dutch readers’?
And another Dutchy 😉
En nóg eentje :p
I’m also Dutch from Toronto. Miss my hometown Zuidoost!!!
Another Dutch reader here and none of those shops have it in store.
In Italy the OM-D EM-5 will be in stores from saturday 25 april.
I hope to get one next week.
I din’t know that in Italy 25.Apr wil be on Saturday. Interesting…
Vittore did not say of which year. 😉
🙂
This is not good. I will wait until June. If my pre-order is still in queue, I have to consider NEX7.
I will just have to wait, since changing system is not an option. NEX system’s lens arsenal are not appealing at all.
That’s the only think stopping me from going Nex-7, the lack of nicer lenses, like the 45mm 1.8 Olympus.
Olympus is obviously a company that can do little right in the way of launching a product, and probably contributing to that fact is the large scale financial scandal. When you really think about it, they’re not even a trustworthy company anymore.
I can understand disappointment — I preordered the silver version, too. But to make this into an Olympus failure is a strange twist…
* the camera was announced only 2 months ago, and the shipping date was announced as April in Europe and USA. They have started delivering it.
* perhaps the success/desirability has taken them by surprise? Any company would have problems delivering to everyone on time if the request greatly exceeds the expectation. Any company. Their scandal may have made them cautious about the level of sale to expect. That would be understandable, and not a big time failure.
* to put it into perspective:
— Nikon announced the D800 in the beginning of January, and were supposed to start delivering now. They have big problems delivering to all those with preorders. They have even decided to let professional users “sneak in line”, i.e deliver to professional customers before delivering to semi-professional customers even though the pros ordered later.
— Canon has big problems delivering their new pro cameras, and perhaps won’t be able to deliver in time for the London Olympics — a MAJOR set-back
— Panasonic has a long history of showing “conceptual” designs for — how long? A year??
When I preordered the silver OM-D w/ 12-50, I was told I was no 4 overall in line in the local store in a big European city, and no 2 in the silver line. Two days ago, I checked, and was told I was no 4 in the silver line. Of course, there may have been some language problems the first time. But if they manipulate the list and let “friends” sneak in line, I will be really pissed — not with Olympus, but with the local dealer.
In the mean time — I enjoy the PEN E-P3 :-). It is spring. It is getting warmer every day :-).
>the camera was announced only 2 months ago, and the shipping date was announced as April in Europe and USA. They have started delivering it.
If it was going to be available in increments of 3 cameras to a store, they should have said it was an extremely limited release. If it was going to take them longer to launch, they should have said it’ll be available in May, or June, or 3 years from now. If Apple launched the 3rd iPad, and had 10 per store, they’d be up to their neck in sht.
It seems you’re the kind of customer who’s content with, “eh, whenever they get it out, its fine.” I don’t think most people are like that, and I’m certainly not. This IS an Olympus screw up, like it or not.
I pre-ordered from B&H who claim they have zero info from Olympus on what’s going on. So again, if you consider B&H is being honest (and why wouldn’t they be, when this is the case for many, many other retailers) it’s again Olympus not providing up to date information. If they’re going to take until June, or Christmas, or whatever other date their incompetent selves take to get these to stores, they should be forthcoming so the store can let us know.
But they don’t / won’t because it will cause people look at other solutions. Your argument of “Well Nikon and Canon can’t deliver either!” means exactly nothing. You could say, “Tyco can’t deliver Tickle Me Elmo either” and it would also mean nothing.
I don’t want to come off hostile to you, but you absolve Olympus when they’re the cause of this pathetic launch, and nobody else.
I think you have a difficult life, and are happy to blame others.
I’ve placed pre-orders at 5 different dealerships here in Sweden. It has only been one store in the whole country to have received a “shipment” of OM-D. By shipment i meant one camera, black + kit. Now that’s rediculous!
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So and now a childish post for El Duderino:
I’ve got mine, nah nah nah nah nah.
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Damn I hate to wait again,.it’s been 2 months already,.I guess ,I have to use my Inner circle connection at B&H or Adorama,..if i don’t get it it till this weekend,..or maybe need to call another stores
Holland: Silver kit in stock?
http://www.foto-osinga.nl/foto-cameras/systeem-cameras/olympus-em-5-om-d-met-12-50mm-lens.html
Mine will arrive today for a review !
(France)
Something else though: a couple of weeks ago Ringfoto Hekkert in Deventer, Holland, still had a Panny GF1 in their shop for € 369,00. With kit lens!
Panny GF1 used to come with 20/1.7, if that was the case the price is good. Otherwise: Hahaha.
In Switzerland the stores share different information:
Silver Kit: Late April
Black Kit: Late May
Silver Body: Late May
Black Body: Late May
As far as i can see, no shipment reached Switzerland yet.
It really can’t be true that no E-M5 has been delivered in Switerzland yet. If I don’t receive my cam until the end of May (preordered at 22.2) before I go to holidays I have to cancel the order and I will buy a Nikon D3200 or something like that…
Panasonic should be jealous with this success,…
No, it is the opposite. Olympus learned from Panasonic, delivery issues have always been a strong point of Panasonic.
Eh? Like touring the world with “concept lenses” for a year?
Exatly what I meant, and let us not forget the legendary deliveries of GH2.
BLI you do notice the sarcasm bit of my comments right?
Yep I saw it, the silver E-M5’s are popping up here and there in the Netherlands. For a second there I hesitated to buy one, but I decided to keep the G3 I just received and invest the 700 euro price difference in a nice lens or two!
But everytime I see that E-M5 I must restrain myself from getting one…
I love this site and all the ppl that contribute to all the rumors that educate us all BUT I HOPE that this information about getting my Silver Body only sometime after next month is wrong!? This waiting stuff is driving me nuts. Especially since there are so many random ppl out there with cams. I ordered mine Feb 7th. I though early bird gets the worm:(
When you are ordering from Oly and Panny it’s more a case of ‘early worm gets the bird . . . ‘
The dates I got are if you order now. They did not give any info on shipments for earlier orders or how long their current order list is.
I ordered the black 12-50 kit feb 7th from amazon but no word yet. I just saw Steve Huff posted his initial thought and I believe he got his 14-42 black kit through amazon.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/04/19/very-1st-look-video-at-the-olympus-om-d-e-m5-review-soon/
Oh well, looks like itll be worth the wait!!
any updates from swiss readers? i am unsure if i should pre-order or wait and jump into a store.
Amazon uk email, silver version delayed until 25th May, black in on 2nd May.
I’m Dutch.
On 25 of may we will leave on vacation to Switzerland and south France. Currently I have only me E-PL1 and standard kit lens. Since my eyes can see farther than this standard lens I really want a m.zd 40-150mm because of the great price/performance ratio.
Maybe I go for the E-M5 silver too, but not sure…
Hopefully they have something in Eindhoven this saturday to play with…
I’m going to order my m5 soon but i have a question about the accessories.
Which memory-card are you going to use in your om-d?
Does the SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro SDHC Memory Card delivers enough speed or do you think the new UHS-cards are a better solution?
thanks for the help
I’m curious about that, too.
Amazon UK advise OMD available – Balck on May 2nd an Silver on May 25th.
David
English guy in the land of the Dutch here.
I pre-ordered the silver via Amazon.co.uk (delivered to a UK address, I can make use of the free grip promo) and had the same info from Amazon that was mentioned earlier – Black on May 2 and Silver on May 25. I see that my local camera shop (Foka Rotterdam) is doing 2 introductory workshops on Sunday. There seems to still be space if any Rotterdammers want to go; the camera doesn’t appear to be in stock though.
Starting to consider a trip to the netherlands now…
A fine mess of a launch by incompetent Olympus. Maybe it’s time to look elsewhere. These guys blow a launch of an olympus camera people actually want in large numbers for a change, after teasing it for months, offering rebates, etc.
Shutter to think I might go with a Nex-7 instead of this camera. Don’t think I can trust olympus to get a camera to me before I turn old and f’ing gray. Who knows about lenses, etc going forward.
You are always welcome Rasmus, and OMD or not, NL is a fine place to visit. However, I wouldn’t be certain of being able to get one – many of the webshops don’t seem to have stock. I’m traveling next week so will see if I can pick up a camera at the airport in Amsterdam or London with a discount; often those shops have stock where others don’t.
I just asked Olympus Sweden and I believe early birds like me, who preordered in february, may get silver EM-5:s a bit sooner. So I guess I go to the Netherlands at some other time. 🙂
Oh! Swede here, I’ve placed preorders at almost every trustworthy dealerships in Sweden. But everyone is giving me bad news regarding the silver one. Did Olympus Sweden said anything worth mention?
Not too much, more than that they are actually delivering the cameras now, and that they deliver more black than silver since Olympus had expected the black ones to be slightly more popular. I have emailed them back because I didn’t fully understand if they meant that they deliver bodies or only kits. Hope they already deliver silver bodies.
I just saw one black kit in stock on Scandinavian Photos web shop. It’s in their Malmö shop so it’s not listed as being in store.
Listed on their web page as in-store now. I’m hoping (probably in vain) that Dustin will get a bunch of either 12-50 kit today.
None of the three Dutch retailers mentioned have the EM-5 in stock.
Also: 1100 euros for body only, ouch!
not anymore ; )
They did but were sold out very very quickly.
I’ve bought at one of the stores.
Which one?
Foka OM-D workshop:
http://www.foka.nl/site/images/nieuwsbrief/20120419/olympusomd.jpg
I ordered a black, body only EM-5, from Olympus.co.uk webstore on Wednesday afternoon, it arrived this morning. No pre-order at all, guess I was just really lucky.
I picked up my silver one yesterday from Henry’s at Halifax Nova Scotia.
I did not notice the humming until today, you have to have your ear next to the camera. It is an odd sound.
I also ordered a silver body from the (Dutch) Olympus website on Wednesday and received it yesterday! Just one day delivery from Belgium to Holland… Not bad 😉
I choose to preorder the Nokton 17.5 f0.95 instead of the E-M5. I guess it will be more scarce than the E-M5 in a couple or three month from now. It will be plenty of E-M5s after the first rush.
I got my OM-D E-M5 silver body at 999€ in France. They only have a small quantity of OM-D body in silver.
Here is the name of the shop Lecirque
Today I found a silver set in Frankfurt city, My Zeil, Saturn. But there was nobody who could sell it to me and I had to go to work. Maybe it is still there.
If the black body had been the desirable camera, it would have been delayed so some of the silver bodies could sell to those who just can’t wait.
Lets others do the dirty work; see
http://www.kieskeurig.nl/zoeken/index.html?q=olympus+em-5
For pricing and stock (Levertijd) see
http://www.kieskeurig.nl/spiegelreflexcamera/olympus/om-d_e-m5_12-50mm/prijzen/bezorgen/1049420/#prijzen