You can finally download the E-M1+12-40mm $200 cashback form here: Olympusamerica.com (.pdf).
Whatdigitalcamera (Click here) used quite some nice words for the E-M1:
The E-M1 will no doubt appeal to existing PEN and E-series shooters, but we can see the charms of it attracting attention from DSLR owners too, especially travel and reportage photographers looking for a high-quality, responsive and well-made camera to go anywhere with them. Put simply, the E-M1 is not just one of the best system cameras around at the moment, but one of the best cameras full stop.
And also Steve Huff (Click here) likes the camera:
I can say that for me, the Olympus E-M1 is the best Mirrorless camera on the market today when looking at the “Whole Picture” of cost, size, build, speed, toughness, EVF, performance, features and lenses available. No one else even comes close and I should know, I have used EVERYTHING out there. Well done Olympus, you have indeed created a mirrorless masterpiece!
P.S.: A special thanks to Olympus for recognizing that people buying the E-M1 with 12-40mm lens should get rewarded with a lower kit price. Not many companies do that!
Preorder Links:
Olympus E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto, Amazon DE (via DL), Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL), WexUK, Topshot FI, CameraWorldUK.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO Lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, AmazonDE (viaDL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-40mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK and CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-50mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK, CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus EP-13 Eyecup for E-M1 at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus HLD-7 Battery Grip for E-M1 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LC-62D Metal Front Lens Cap for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LH-66 Lens Hood for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
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Been checking for a week now. Good news. Hopefully my 12-40 ships in the next week or so. Been thoroughly enjoying the E-M1
I thought it is delayed till december.
Yeah…this rebate kind of makes no sense to me? The rebate is only good until Dec. 2nd….but the lenses are not going to be available until Dec. 7th?
This makes no sense? Am I missing something here?
Admin…are my dates correct?…do you notice this timeline will not work with the rebate dates?
Your PS re Oylmpus’ offer is wrong. Lots of companies off kit savings. As a former Canon shooter I purchased several bodies coupled with lenses that separately would have cost significantly more.
Of course many do kit offerings. But Olympus didn’t it from the scratch and 2 weeks after they announced the cach back to make it good.
By by m43 em1 expensive gadget hello Sony cheap FF real pro cam. Sony A7 is so beautiful. I have canceld my order of EM1 and going to buy the truly beautiful Sony FF. And i think a lot of people will go that way with those expensive point and shoot M43 prices.
Bye, bye Viezevure: now that you have decided to buy your FF Sony, I’m sure you’ll move on to other forums. Of course, no-one believes you have ever ordered the E-M1. But: good luck with your new Sony. If you continue your contributions in this forum, everyone will know that you couldn’t afford the Sony :-D. So you at least will need a new alias.
So you have cancelled and order for something you mock and are going to buy something nobody has any real details about. Well bully for you.
BYE BYE,…and do LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$!!!!!!!!!!
“Sony” and “pro” in the same sentence is as dumb as “M43” and “pro”. Want pro? 10 bucks mouth and pu$$y on the roadside.
Who cares? (no real photographer, anyway)
look at what m43 can do;
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/10/09/a-vintage-year-with-the-om-d-e-m5-and-e-m1-by-neil-buchan-grant/
and here’s the blog
http://buchangrant.com/blog/
show me your me your ,.FULL of [F@#$%ng] LAME can do
A few photos that Steve huff took, and FF sucks all of a sudden?? Hahaha keep making MFT, perferably Olympus users look like morons. Keep fueling the idiot fire.
“It’s a win/win and the only ones who dismiss this system in 2013 are those who are living in an alternate universe.”
I’de agree with Steve on this – I guess a few others round these parts might too…
Who cares? Yes, we all know that you are not a real photographer…
well do you think this one is unprofessional,.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/10/09/a-vintage-year-with-the-om-d-e-m5-and-e-m1-by-neil-buchan-grant/
and this his website:
http://buchangrant.com/blog/,.
now show me yours ,.full frame work
There are no real photogs in this forum, only marketing folks and computer “experts”. Well there may be a couple of photographer, three tops, and not very good anyway.
thanks for that info, could you clarify to which category you belong?
Not for german customers?? 🙁
But Europe gets a special kit price (cheaper than body & lens separate) and a free grip for pre-orders and a free adaptor if you pre-order and pre-own 43 stuff. Since you can’t get the 12-40 kit yet you should still get all this free stuff if you pre-order. It was the US of A that was getting a bum deal.
Yes but this is only interesting for those who want the grip orthe adapter
Harold
Not correct Harold. You get the kit for 2199eur but the cost of the body is 1499eur and the cost of the 12-40 is 999eur. So in Europe you can save nearly 300eur by buying a kit. So still better than the $200 rebate for the US. They do not have a cheaper kit option as I recall. They have to buy both bits then apply for the rebate.
Attention EU buyers: you can get a 6D + 28/135 IS for less.
Work for Canon, do you?
We don’t want no crappy 6D
I am convinced by Stve Huff! Thank you! I ordered the EM-1 + the pro zoom in place of the rumored Sony A7. Oh, my Leica stuff is going on sale as well. 🙂
sure……………..
is this amount of noise typical for a 200 ISO shot or have shadows been pushed or whatever. I am not meaning to troll I have the E-M1 per-ordered and i am moving from Nikon FF to mFT I want a system that i will actually be inclined to use due to weight
http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/equipment/galleries/sample-images/olympus/35151/1/10/olympus-om-d-e-m1-review-sample-image-gallery.html#slideshow
The noisy ones look more like the results I get at ISO 1600 from my m43 cameras. I suspect that they have been converted from raw with incorrect EXIF data.
Looking to downsize: Yes M43 has much more noise than APSC or FF. And the noise from M43 is a ugly one to. Al this talk about M43 is as good as latest APSC is Bull….Even size wise M43 is as big as APSC. If you want to spend 1500 euro for a body please look at the small options from Fuji and Sony (FF). If you dont mind little prints average quality an no control of dof then M43 could be for you. And yes now the fanboys are comming out and trying to convince themself that M43 is the only system with good lensen. This also is bull…….. Sony, Zeis and Fuji have as good or much better lenses. M43 has ibis which is nice but the others have OIS which is better. M43 is nice but not at the prices of APSC or FF.
Have you suffered recent head trauma, such as being struck by a large falling lens/anvil?
Yes Sony glass is so good, which is why they want Olympus lens design. As regards print size you can easily display A1 E-M5 images.
mouarf ! Nice trolling attempt 😀 Yeah of course the noise from m43 is not nice but the noise from FF and DSRL is nice, despite being from the same manufacturer: SONY. And all the tests showing that E-M5 sensor is better than any canon DSRL…Ok m43 will never compete with FF but who cares ? this is not the purpose…and size, lol, yeah it’s small !
And here you are again. The bullshit is that you never had an order for an EM-1 in the first place.
EM-1 order just cancelled eh? Smells like…
I am currently both a Nikon D800 and Olympus E-M5 user. I also used a Nikon D7000 extensively for over a year. I have been nothing but impressed by my E-M5 since I purchased it. The results are very much equal to the D7000 to my eyes. The M43 lenses are so much more compact and I have found that even the cheaper lenses (Panasonic 14-45, Sigma 19mm) tend to offer much more consistent sharpness across the frame. I do try to keep the camera to 1600 iso or below, but I did much the same with the D7000. I am comfortable with the D800 up to 3200. If you like a shallow depth of field, it is more difficult to achieve with m4/3 at shorted focal lengths. If you often worry about not having enough depth of field, for landscapes and such, m43 works nicely even at f5.6.
Don’t listen to the troll above. He leads a sad little life.
Well it’s nice to hear the voice of reason from time to time. It’s not like 35mm has been discovered tomorrow.
m4/3 has been a testbed for integration of digital technologies that has reached maturity recently.
It will take years to the Sony frankencameras to reach that. And they will have to struggle with a combination of large format and short distance to flange. Never an easy combination, not even for Leica, which can count at least on its own lenses.
m4/3 per pixel resolution -sharpness – and DR is second to none. Lenses are among the best. That is why photogs, have a go at it even if they come from bigger frame cameras.
No that is certainly not typical for ISO200 from the Sony 16mp sensor in the current mFT batch of cameras. Either the ISO was reported wrong or the shadows were really pushed.
I am sorry guys I didn’t mean to draw the flies.I was surprised by the noise is I assumed it must have been a shadow post , bloody stupid way to post a review shot. Thank you
Josef,amalric & MMF user for a more reasoned answer.I have been a Nikon user for a long time I am looking for a change to get my backside on the move there is little point having a super camera and lenses if they are left sitting in my house.
You’ll definitely enjoy the smaller size. If you don’t print much bigger than 13×19″, any of the latest m43 cameras will work great. Like i said before, I have been nothing but impressed since I purchased the e-m5. The camera is so much smaller and gets so much less attention than modern dslrs do when out and about.
I view my e-m5 as a replacement for 35mm film gear and my d800 as a modern digital equivalent of a medium format film camera. They both offer so much more flexibility than in the film days and (generally) better results than the film counterparts.
They must have applied some kind of grainy filter or have done something else wrong. Iso 200 is not noisy:
http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/equipment/galleries/sample-images/olympus/35151/1/12/olympus-om-d-e-m1-review-sample-image-gallery.html#slideshow
And Viezevure… you had an Em1 on order, right 😉
Charles you are right. The wife and kids ordered two but thanks to the latest news from Sony i could talk them out off it. They already new the would get worse quality with EM1 than any APSC but they took it for what it is. But now for just 200 euro more we are going to skip one EM1 and take an A7. Em1 for point and shoot at the beach and rainy days, the other camera’s for some serious work. Still like the EM1 for what it is. A very very nice point and shoot.
Is it you Schenkie or should I say Stinkie. Btw, I don’t you have a wif and kids. I’m shure you don’t know how to make kids, and noone would mary an idiot like you, but as a12 year old, there still is hope four you.
You nailed it, great job!
That is shenkie for sure, he has made the exact same post many time in the past.
shenkie, Why did you change your user name? Were you hoping that people would take you more seriously, or were you trying to make it look like you weren’t the only one as deluded? You had an em1 ordered and cancelled it? Sounds like the time you claimed to have done a nikon, fuji, olympus comparison but never posted a link.
You do have to wonder if he is a paid troll as it is not just this forum he pops up on with all his different names. He puts a huge amount of effort in. It will be interesting to see if he pops up on a Sony forum under a different name slamming the A7 soon.
I don’t think he is a paid troll… only because his posts don’t accomplish anything that would be worth paying money for.
There are only two possibilities I can see: 1) He is just very young and doesn’t have a lot of experience with photography (or communicating with adults) or 2) He is actually a m4/3 fanboy who posts as though he were a troll to make it seem like people who use aps-c or ff are ignorant and intimidated by m4/3.
He changed his name after someone here found out he had been copying messages from LL to post them here as his own. Now that he has been busted again he is going to need yet another user name. Poor kid.
Hey Charles, I much prefer to see real world low light samples evenly lit studio lighting isn’t much of a test.I was surprised to see how noisy that shot was.
The superlatives in Steve Huff’s review are embarrassing. He makes it look like the E-M1 is the best camera short of FF. I’m sure it’s a capable camera, but not that capable. Actually you don’t have to look that far for an equal. It’s called the GX7.
Steve Huff embarrasses himself? Most likely but who cares.
GX7 equal to EM-1? In the rain? With shaky hands? Focussing 43 glass? I think you might be embarrassed in that situation.
It’s a DSLR Type body. Put it against a GH3 or even a CANIKON DSLR.
The GX7 is in a different category. The Olympus fanboys only try to match the E-M1 to the GX7 because the GX7 already kicked the E-P5’s A$$.
And wait till the GH5 comes out…. Hahaha!
Enjoy the E-P1… Stills only… Hahaha!
but who wants to produce panna shiteos?
Oh shoot, I’ve woken Mr SMALLCRAPS. Ah but hang on a minute he is correct and supporting my comment that the GX7 is a different kettle of fish to the EM-1. And yes a prospective purchaser would want to test drive a GX7 against an EP5. It wouldn’t be a mistake to choose a GX7 either. Perhaps a future GH-5 will be an even better machine than all of them. So despite all this sensible info from SC why when I read his posts do I imagine him as a swivel eyed loon with a maniacal laugh?
E-P5 CRUSHES GX7 in every category besides video. E-P5 is a still- shooter’s dream!
“GX7 equal to EM-1? In the rain? With shaky hands? Focusing 43 glass? I think you might be embarrassed in that situation.”
The GX7 is equal regarding still quality and better regarding video quality.Honestly how many cameras have you had destroyed by rain ? I have not had one camera in 30 years of shooting damaged by rain hail sleet or snow.I love landscape shooting and have shot everywhere from snowscapes in Copper Mountain to deserts with no problems.
The GX7 already has 2-axis IS are you perhaps epileptic there are two fast prime zooms 12-35 and 35-100 with OIS,there is the 100-300 with OIS tht takes me from 24mm to 600mm equiv.Then there is a macro lens with OIS ,there will be a super fast portrait lens with OIS soon along with a 150F2.8 tele prime.
As with most mFT users I could not care less about what the humongous FF sized lenses from the failure that was four thirds do
Yes. Except unlike you I think the Panny stuff and Oly stuff is suitably complimentary within the m43 eco system. I get annoyed that so-called fans of either system feel the need to trash the other like some kind of in-fighting hick family. The GX-7 and EM-1 are focused on different audiences and I was using the strong points of the EM-1 to make this point. You correctly point out a videographer would pick the GX-7. But why do you need to to come across as such a dickwipe? Is referring to somebody as a possible “epileptic” a mature thing to say or is it just offensive to people with that condition? Those lens you name check are great and they go on any m43 camera so why all the bile?
Well to be blunt the amount of raves about the necessity of 5-axis IS does make one question the prevalence of Epilepsy or maybe Parkinson’s disease amongst the Olympus mFT fraternity.As apparently they find it impossible to take a steady shot without 5-axis IS,which is a little amusing as IS does more harm than good in most scenarios and it is only a real advantage when shooting static subjects in low light
You have not used an E-M5 extensively, and it shows. Complete nonsense from beginning to end.
Well to be blunt, your argument is both ignorant and idiotic.
It is a useful tool. Certainly one can shoot pictures without it, just like you can shoot pictures without auto-focus and auto-exposure.
That doesn’t change that those are often extremely useful tools, and the same is true for all forms of image stabilization. Dismissing useful tools that can selectively be turned on as the need arises, is a clear sign of idiocy.
Oh, and your statement concerning the situations in which IS might help just shows how totally ignorant you are.
Yeh bitch… lest do who can expose for the longest – you on a what FF something without IS…. and someone hear with and OMD… I think you will find the IS will give more stops than the move to FF sensor can!
“Honestly how many cameras have you had destroyed by rain ?”
More then one actually. Doing camera repairs in my spare time and living in a place where rain is a given more then half of the time, I’ve seen a lot of them also, actually enough so to say that you have absolutely no bloody clue as to what you are talking about.
“I have not had one camera in 30 years of shooting damaged by rain hail sleet or snow.I love landscape shooting and have shot everywhere from snowscapes in Copper Mountain to deserts with no problems.”
Some guys have all the luck, but we’ll talk again the day your luck runs out. Don’t complain you weren’t forewarned.
you are embarassing 🙂
Shave your head and you will see the light! hahaha
Nice try.
sNeye….GX7 is fanboy plastic crap…The M1is the way to go if you want a REAL camera.
PREPARE TO SINK EM1 AND PANNY .. SONY FF ON THE WAY!!
I really really don’t care about it ! lenses will be TOO BIG…
Big, GIANT, small aperture, crappy lenses.
And cropped DSLR are sinking because FF DSLRs are available. Oh wait, cropped DSLRs outsell FF DSLR still and bet you it will remain that way in mirrorless. So, cropped mirrorless, even m4/3 won’t go away.
Actually the almost impossible for mFT fanboys to accept news is that 83% of the entire interchangeable lens camera market consists of DSLR’s.The 17% left consists mFT,Sony,Fuji,Canon ,Nikon even Pentax 🙂 The mFT share is between 7-8% which means that for every one mFT sold there will be 10 DSLR’s sold. Canon probably sells more FF cameras than the entire output of mFT,Check the data guys or should that be gals
What part of my comment says otherwise? No one is saying m4/3 is out selling anything. I, like others, don’t think FF mirrorless is going to make m4/3 and other cropped mirrorless obsolete, just like how cropped DSLR is still around even when FF DSLR is getting “affordable”. Its great Sony is making FF NEX, but its still going to be expensive and big unlike most current m4/3, like E-PL5. They all serve a need and not everyone is going to need 36MP FF cams.
Fangirls are so funny and insecure…..lol. I would be to if i had bought the EM1 for 1500 euro when i have could bought the SONY A7 beautiful FF for 1700 euro.
I think you have the security/sensor size relationship backwards. When you meet a girl, you can ask her about it.
You are going to buy an A7 and your wife will get an EM-1 soon, correct? So why post “EM-1 what a failure” style messages that make you seem like such a wankshaft?
Oh no, his wife ordered two E-M1’s. But the real question is this: Is it legal for a 12 year old to be married?
That would be great, then he could post back to back comparisons to show us how wrong we are. Wait he already did that with nikon, fuji, and olympus one day but never got around to posting a link. Lol.
shenkie or whatever you are calling yourself,
Look up the definition of “insecure” and then look at the posts you have made here…
Well the mighty Terada himself said that “girls” were their target market.Which explains a hell of lot of the whiny teenage hormonal posts we have to suffer from the Olympus girls.Hopefully they will grow out of and become decent well mannered adults,or not
If you are an adult, I don’t want to be one. You clearly show that being at an adult age doesn’t change anything, you still behave like a little unsecure boy.
Sometimes I have difficulty telling sneye, shenkie, viezevure and ALLCAPS from each other. Might they perhaps be related? I think we should be told.
“Might they perhaps be related? I think we should be told.”
Looking at some of the posts here it looks like some folks Moms & Dads are way too related
I haven’t found that about the sneye’s posts, which are usually very reasonable – he just happens to prefer panasonic, which is no worse a crime than someone who happens to prefer olympus. But viezevure and shenkie are the exact same person.
Lol….. Those fangirls are so funny.
Ok, this was what was holding me back to preorder the Olympus OMD EM-1 and the 12-40mm lens. I was not willing to pay more for buying them separately and was waiting for both to be available in the US as a kit. Thanks Olympus!