Both Adorama and BHphoto now set the E-M5II shipping date on February 27. And both the Black and Silver version are selling equally well at Amazon (see the sales ranking here).
Preorders (if you preorder through those links you will support 43rumors…thanks!):
E-M5II in Black at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-M5II in Silver at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-M5II In Europe at AmazonUK, Jessops, WexUK, Namencolor.
14-150mm II lens at Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
FL-LM3 Flash at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus ECG-2 External Metal Grip at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus HLD-6P Battery Grip at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
HLD-8g at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-P16 eyecup at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
HLD-8G and HLD-6P kit at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full leather case at Amazon, Adorama and GetOlympus.
Olympus PT-EP13 Underwater Housing at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus Stylus Tough TG-860 at Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
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Let the complaining and negative comments begin!!
Pre-ordered my retro silver/black.
Anyone wanna buy my slightly used A7II? I realized that I don’t need FF for none-commercial pix, and prefer better IBIS & much much faster focus w/ touchscreen.
Why didn’t you test it before buying it?
Testing means buying it online, since no local camera store has it available when I wanted it… Which was a few days after release. I ended up keeping it past the return policy of Adorama.
A few weeks with it was actually great… for a full frame featuring 5-axis. And IBIS for legacy lenses. But nowhere near fast-focusing as the current olympus line of cameras, plus lack of touchscreen was a downer.
It’s none of my business, but here’s what I’d ask my best friend: Given your history of buying a very expensive consumer product sight unseen that turns out not to meet your needs, resulting in your end up selling it a few weeks later for a huge loss, why would you then quickly turn around and purchase yet another very expensive consumer product sight unseen?
No doubt the new product looks compelling, but then so did the last one a few weeks ago. What is it about this pattern that may be causing disruption and repercussions?
I can’t tell for “Going back to m43”, but I can relate:
as an Olympus m43 cam owner I’d long been eyeing the Panasonic cams. (same here: no way to try them but to buy them 🙁 )
I ended up buying one for my Girlfriend – and on specs it did beat my much older Oly by far, but despite it’s shortcomings, I did prefer the shooting experience with the Oly. It’s little things, like how the basic functions and buttons work and how you manipulate them, and how the body is organised. I’m just so much more at ease with Oly, and it felt so unnatural on Panasonic to me.
My girlfriend is perfectly happy with it, and when I pixel peeped her images of the same subject, next to mine, I was jealous – but hey, in order for a cam to become a creative tool, it has to feel right to you.
And then there’s the colours, can’t help it, but the Oly colors look like I want them most of the time. To me, that’s more important than pixel peeping quality things.
Yes, when I see some of the fancy cams from other brands, I am tempted. I can perfectly understand buying one, then disliking it and selling it again – for very subjective reasons.
Maybe you need to read your instruction manual because the A7II is supposed to have image stabilization as well.
Maybe you need to read my statement again. I said EM5 II having ‘better IBIS’ than A7II.
Dumb@$$.
I will definitely get the em5 mk2 but also thinking about the a7 mk2 as well for manual glasses. What don’t u like about it?
The a7mk2 is selling for $1,400 usd in hk now. How much will u sell it for?
I’ll post it on craigslist 1st for local buyers. Maybe around $1600 with the Canon FD 55mm f/1.2 (adapter included). Ebay just sucks the $$$ out of you with their 13% ebay/paypal charge.
A likely srory…
$1700 for the body and 14-150, all weather sealed is compelling. I would like to see a review on this lens. Hopefully it is worth the price. Get the feeling it’s priced $200 too high for it’s optics.
Optics are the same (at least I read it somewhere). Only the ZERO coating is applied (and it maybe also got a mechanical upgrade). Beside the splash proofness ^^.
Funds are tight, but I’m going to reward Olympus and Admin by preordering. I’ve been waiting for this camera for a long time now and my prime lenses need a new body. I’ve sold some m43 cameras and am currently using a GF1, so significant upgrade here. Olympus have ticked every single one of my wish list boxes… Well maybe not 4k, but my laptop can’t handle that anyway. Congratulations!
Black body for me although silver looks very nice too.
everytime a new Olympus product is announced GAS strikes extra hard.
This time my GAS will result in something solid…
Haha!>…gross
Olympus UK are doing a FIVE AND A HALF year warranty!!!! – and a (bit crappy looking) messenger bag for free with the EM5II until the end of Feb
Can’t really see why they would give AND A HALF years warranty. Why not just have 5 or 6? Thoughts anyone? Especially cynical thoughts, they’re funnier 🙂
I thought I’d post because I would guess this will be an attractive incentive for those toying with the idea of pre-ordering 🙂
Could it be some sort of mandatory thing for the EU? I think Apple had a similar thing regarding warranties on the iPhone in Europe (it wasn’t as long as 5-years though). I could be wrong
I think its a metric conversion thing. Or, an EU requirement that if you change the position of strap lugs on a camera, the warranty has to be 5.5 years.
🙂
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Maybe if you buy a lens hood they give you another 0.5 🙂
5 and half for E-M5 mk2 , maybe?
Sorry, just have a rational one: 2 years statutory warranty plus 6 months extended warranty for signing up the olympus newsletter. What’s in for free is the 3 years extended EU warranty for OMD bodies (normally £79) which makes 5 1/2 years.
Good answer. Although doesn’t seem like quite such good value anymore. Nice camera (that there’s no way I can afford) though 🙂
I know. The warranty actually only covers manufacturing faults and workmanship. So any wear, tear or accidental damage is not in.
Would love this as a “second body” but I guess it will be a long time until the price drops enough too…
I think I am going to opt for 7-14mm lens instead of the mk2…
Any more info in the special edition titanium version mentioned here:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476210,00.asp
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Will there be a EM1 mkii announced this year?
I’d guess fall. Hard to see what else it would have to differentiate itself. New sensor maybe. Better AF.?10 bit video?
Does anyone know already what the level gauge in the E-M5II will look like? I use it quite often, both in my E-P5 and GX1, and although I prefer the E-P5 in general I find the way the level gauge is visualized in the GX1’s display much less disturbing than these thick green lines at the side and bottom with the E-P5.
Surprised that this new model with all the fanfare is only 4th or 5th in the unaudited Amazon “rankings.” I’d expect it to have immediately shot to number 1.
Not that this means much by itself at launch; see what the sales look like 3 and 6 and 12 and 18 and 24 and 36 and 48 months down the road.
Ahead in the rankings are the long discontinued NEX-5 and the year old A6000, showing impressive holding power. Might I point out, the Sonys are priced very nicely, a factor Olympus would do well to heed, especially when launching this new camera with pricing it as though this were still 2012 and the market still expanding.