Digicameinfo leaked the very first images of the new Olympus E-M5II and 14-150mm II lens. Specs have been disclosed by 43rumors:
Same E-M5 16MP sensor
Update processor (improves slightly the IQ)
No PDAF
New sensor shift shooting that allows to combine 8 pictures in one to create a 40 Megapixel image
Improved 5 axis stabilization
It does have clean hdmi-out
all common frame rates and video optimized af-algorithm.
50Mb/s all 1080p (no 4K recording)
The camera will be announced the first week of February!
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Please PLEASE Olympus give us decent AF tracking!!! I love my E-M5 but now that my daughter is (very) mobile I’m finding it harder and harder to get in focus shots. I’m currently looking at the a6000 and D750 for this reason. The D750 is probably overkill but I would like to not have to change systems to begin with!
I could be wrong (too early in the morning to think clearly about physics!), but I think the sensor-shift tech can also be used for PDAF. Not sure if it will be fast enough.
Or, have you tried your daughter on an E-M1? With very mobile subjects, framing is also a big issue, so response time matters a lot.
I’m not sure if I’m reading your comment correctly. If you’re saying you can’t use PDAF on IBIS, Sony is doing this with the A7II.
If your saying the IBIS could somehow be used to assist with focus, I really haven’t seen anything about that, but it would be interesting (like the sensor shifting in response to subject movement instead of camera movement?)
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m talking about 🙂 But I do know that the EM5 does not track subjects nearly as well as the Nikon D5100 I upgraded from.
> If your saying the IBIS could somehow be used to assist with focus…
Yes! Theoretically, anyway… Instead of having two or four cells behind each microlens, like Canon’s on-chip PDAF, you can move the sensor/microlens along the sensor plane to detect phase shift. (In any direction!) You can also move the sensor back and forth a little bit along the optical axis to improve contrast detect. Caveat is that it probably won’t be as fast as on-chip PDAF, so it might be too slow for your kid.
When they said new body I was hoping for it to be a little smaller. So in summary:
No 4k
No H.265 video
No fully electronic global shutter
No size reduction
No new sensor
Plus one new trick to take higher res. images (if the subject is really still)
? USB in camera battery charging (this is really low hanging fruit here)
I just hope the fact that not much has changed will be reflected in an MSRP of about 600USD or so the older E-M5 can be had for around under 400USD on e-bay today body only. If it goes above 1k it’s going to have serious problems competing with the Sony A7(x) first generation lineup which has better sensitivity and resolution all be it at a slightly larger size. I have not jumped in to any of these camps still holding on to my old Pentax K20 until a compelling improvement can be demonstrated. Hopefully the new 40MP images without bayer filter will be really stunning, like a Foveon image at 3x the resolution, perhaps that will persuade me to part with my money. Though I don’t see why they can’t do a 64MP image (16MP * 4) with only 4 shifts which would sample red,green, and blue at every point in the bayer cell pattern.
Better focus peaking would be nice!…….as well as peaking during video.