GetOlympus (Click here to read all details) just confirmed the huge OMD firmware update for the E-M1 and E-M5II will be released on November 26!
Olympus Firmware Update: OM-D E-M1 Version 4
Olympus Firmware Update: OM-D E-M5 Mark II Feature Upgrade
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I’m impatiently waiting! 🙂
It’s strange other Olympus sites aren’t giving a date (yet), but then again I think Australia may have released a little more information before the others in the past.
Wow, I am most impressed by Olympus’s video improvements. This looks to set the stage for 4k internal recording for the E-M1 II coming next year. Combine this with the best IBIS in the industry and Olympus may be able to overtake Panasonic in terms of video.
Panasonic should not be Olympus biggest competitor and vise versa. They compliment each other, and together they can supply us with good lenses , camera’s etc. They should point their arrows at Canikon.
For example: It baffles me that people still buying Canon dSLR’s for video purposes.
Can’t argue with ignorance…
They do compliment each other, I have an E-M1 for amazing photographs and a GX7 to cary around and take great video with. The only down side is I feel I have to move up to a GH4 to get sound input now that I am doing more video.
They should have overtaken Panasonic last year when the E-M1 came out, if only they had paid minimum attention to sensor readout in video.
They upped the codec, they upped the bitrate, but they kept the pre-historic subsampled readout.
Even my carcass 5 year old GH2 kicks the shit out of any Oly.
It’s like having a Ferrari with a VW engine… 🙁
maybe or maybe not,how about olympus intent on video?
They support IBIS for video! Lol,ha ha ha.
and others,codec or color bit or LOG profile or bitrate or Bla Bla Bla.
Are they intent on video?
i am not sure.
Great to see Olympus practicing Kaizen. Looks like a great update. Now about that new Pen…
Still missing: Manual focus assist that’s connected to face/near eye detection. Turn the lens and magnify the eye for assistance.
“… just confirmed…” = posted last week – keep up!
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56770947
Trouncing every Panasonic feature 🙂 except for decent sensor readout in video… 🙁
Would really like to know if it’s possible for Olympus to enable video output and ‘Clean HDMI’ from the HDMI port. Very little use for the HDMI port right now since to my understanding it only allows viewing photos stored on the SD card.
You can also connect a monitor (TV) that replaces the on camera monitor for taking photos, but not sure about video. I’ll have to try it.
I’m running a fairly recent version of firmware and don’t have the functionality you mention. Attaching a monitor to the HDMI port puts the camera in playback mode. It doesn’t replace the on-camera monitor for any shooting mode.
Thanks, I can’t find my HDMI cable at the moment & so it must have been the basic multi-connector to RCA cable that comes with the camera. Still, it is a larger monitor in that application. 😉
Ok, I think I’ll wait for 4.1 then, perhaps *that* will finally give us exposure compensation in M mode + Auto-ISO and a configurable Auto-ISO feature!
Just joking. Well, half joking. Guess I’ll be ordering a full version of Helicon Focus Pro soon so that I’ll have it when the firmware arrives. The 60mm Macro is already here (even though I never wanted to add one to my 50mm Four Thirds lens)…
Also, a Digital focus scale like my gx1 and C-AF + MF like my E5. These fw updates are great!
Would love to see the E-P5 get similar love.
E-P5 is the flagship of PEN line. And hence should receive the “last upgrade” before E-P6 is released.
– 24/25fps
– focus peaking colors
– improved anti-shock
– M-IS1/M-IS2
– S-OVF support via VF-4
And maybe:
– Smooth Aperture Control for Videos (manual aperture via focus ring)
– Silent Shutter
That would mean that E-P line is worth to buy for PRO use as backup if not needing a EVF!
If it did I would pick one up in a heartbeat because prices are ridiculously low on them right now. Somehow I don’t think it will though.
Is there a hardware limitation to include the focus trackpad from the e-m10 ii? seems like a very useful feature
How can you operate it on E-M1, the screen is always under your nose.
Same it is with GX7, GX8, GH4, G7, E-M10 and E-M5 II (etc)!
E-M1 is actually from all those the only body that leaves enough space between nose and screen to manipulate it!
And yet it isn’t fastest or nices way as you can’t do it with gloves! You can’t do it in macro! You can’t do it in portraiture! Not in action!
It is just a wannabe thing who can’t just use two dials to move AF point around!
Sorry….
https://youtu.be/G04_Si8QG_QQ
I take the VW….
25p! Yes!
2 years was indeed a long time to wait, but better late than never.
Hopefully in just a few months time the EM1 Mk2 comes out and I can upgrade to a 4k 30p camera and begin the lobbying process all over again. In the meantime I’ll enjoy those precious last few weeks I have with my camera and a feature that never should of been missing in the first place. Announce f1.2 primes though and I can forgive anything.
I suppose it’s OK to dream! I think it’ll be a little more than a few months. Try almost a year perhaps.
Was hoping for faster high res shot on my Em5II
I have an EM1 and and EM5II. Trying to decide if I want to upgrade as installing the new firmware will blow off ALL of my cameras customization…which is extensive. It will take me hours to get them both right again! Arrrrrgggggghhhhh?! LOL!
It’ll be worth it for the E-M1. Silent shooting and 0-sec antishock in continuous drive are huge new features IMO. But hey who knows–maybe new firmware updates don’t wipe settings anymore.
E-M1 has supported 0-sec anti-shock since its firmware when in sequential L/H mode.
And who cares wiping? Everyone can just reset the settings in couple minutes and set all MySet in couple minutes as well!
And this 4.0 can very well be the last firmware so who the fu*** cares when you will never again “suffer” from the reset?
“E-M1 has supported 0-sec anti-shock since its firmware when in sequential L/H mode.”
The E-M1 will only be getting that for sequential frames in FW 4.0. It wasn’t available in 3.1.
Sorry, meant the anti-shock is supported. 0-sec is just on option of many but you got the anti-shock when using 1/8 second instead 8ms, limiting you to 6-7fps.
Yes, the other (1/8 sec) was available but that wasn’t electronic delay after the first shutter curtain which could still cause some vibration so I’m rather pleased the sequential (0 sec) option is coming as I will be comforted to know I can take some sequenced shots & still be able to keep the image sharper at those lower shutter speeds that were previously affected by shutter shock.
I’m stuck with just the 1/8 sec option on the E-M5 though, but at least I have the two bodies to use.
Check again, bud. I have an up-to-date E-M1 in front of me and both Lo and Hi continuous drive modes with antishock are grayed out if I set antishock to 0 seconds.
You can reset all your settings in a couple minutes? Good for you. Some of us have customized a lot more settings on our cameras requiring more time than that.
I can’t wait to put improved IS to the test. The E-M1 is on the edge of beating my Canon SL1 for trackside shooting. If the new IS is about 10% better and the AF does not take a hit then by by Canon.
You seriously claim SL-1 aka 100D has with Canon lenses a better or as good OIS as Olympus 5-axis in E-M1 when panning?
What’s up with the EM 5. Last firmwareupdate was 11.2014. I don’t understand this policy.
E-M1 is the flagship, has the different CPU, sensor, shutter and rest than what E-M5 has.
E-M5 line will always be a prototype model, E-M10 as entry level quick model and E-M1 as the top model with latest techs.
making stuff up are we?
The E-M5 is not really a prototype model in that sense but Olympus does tend to try out new features in lower models & after the E-M5 there were lots of feedback from users with features & design concepts that ended up being implemented into the E-M1 with the built in grip being one of them & larger, more positive feel buttons unlike the smaller, squishy feel of the E-M5. In that sense it could be seen as a trial prototype before further models (& especially the flagship model) followed & so all the rest of what Mk.82 wrote is true though.
The E-M5 has been replaced with the E-M5 II so the only updates now likely would just be compatibility updates for new lenses etc & that’s about all. Anything else & you’re just hoping for that now ‘old’ model.
I think it’s pretty reasonable that EM5 has not been part of the recent updates…
Olympus had a two year limited use (for video) contract with Panasonic for the sensor in the E-M1 & that is why the video frame rates for that camera could only be updated now that the contract has expired. Panasonic was scared Olympus would outsell the GH4 because of the 5 axis IS.
The real problem with video on Olympus is not the frame rates but the readout. Olympus heavily subsamples lines. It’s like they are only taking 2MP out of the 16MP.
This impacts terribly the resolution and the cleanliness of the image.
I reckon it’s around 2EV stops and 30-40% resolution. 🙁
Hoping panasonic get that focus bracketing/stacking feature in their next bodies, or my next will be an olympus I guess
Now 25th November – keep up